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Yasue's recipe🍃Gut healthy basil pasta sauce with a bit of Japanese taste

This recipe can easily make a delicious plant-based Italian-style basil pasta sauce made at home. Miso and nutritional yeast used instead of Parmigiano-Reggiano. It tastes just like cheese! And also, by adding a small amount of Fermented Green Papaya Enzyme into this sauce to combine miso and nutritional yeast , this can make a healthier meal that helps promote your gut health as a result of the synergies between the elements used in the recipe.

 

Ingredients

2 servings

15-20 minutes by hand

5-10 minutes by blender

‱ 20 g Basil leaves
‱ 20 g EV olive oil
‱ 15 g Pine nuts
‱ 1 tbsp Nutritional yeast
‱ 1 tsp Miso 
‱ 1 Garlic clove (about 2 g with the core removed)
‱ 1 g Sea salt
‱ 1 g Fermented Green Papaya Enzyme

 

Method

1. Remove basil leaves from stems then wash. Drain and blot up the remaining water with a kitchen towel.

2. Peel the garlic and cut off the root. Cut it in half then remove the core. Put it into a mortar and crush with a pestle. Add the pine nuts, crush and make a paste.

3. Add basil leaves and sea salt. Mash with the pestle to beat, then grind by rotating the pestle. Repeat this action to make a paste.

When the basil leaves are crushed and blended, add the miso and nutritional yeast, then stir until a smooth texture is reached.

4. Add the EV olive oil and Fermented Green Papaya Enzyme. Stir with the pestle to make a smooth sauce. Occasionally use a spoon to mix the ingredients stuck to the sides to help with the process.

Toss the freshly made sauce with cooked pasta and enjoy!

 

Tips

about Ingredients🌟

‱ For the miso, rice miso was used this time. Using white miso gives the sauce a similar colour as to cheese.
‱ Option to double or triple this recipe.
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about Method🌟

‱ To make this sauce with a blender, combine all the ingredients and stir until a smooth texture is reached!
‱ The sauce has a thick texture, if it difficult to toss with the pasta, adjust with olive oil little by little.
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Yasué Matsuda

Gluten-free × Macrobiotic recipe creator.
Macrobiotic instructor.

Currently living in Japan until Mar.2024 in the UK

My key cooking theme is 'Kenohi's Kitchen'. This means 'Everyday cooking makes you'.

Found out to have delayed gluten allergy in 2017 I started gluten-free arrangement cooking with plant-based food after overcoming Leaky Gut Syndrome through a medical diet. Completed Macrobiotic Cooking School LIMA Master Course, which was first established in 1965 in Japan. Also completed the course PLANT-BASED NUTRITION at the University of Winchester. Pursuing healthy but delicious cooking with my foodie passion!

Instagramyasue.matsuda
Website: https://note.com/kitchen_kenohi/ (Japanese only/ English version is coming up.)
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-Published on 4th October 2022