Basil pesto
Made in a food processor, no heat at all. Keeps a week in the fridge and doses pasta, eggs or bread by the spoonful.
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Ingredients
½ cup infused olive oil
Set your infusion strength above and this splits into infused and plain olive oil to hit whatever dose you want.
- 2 cupsbasil leaves — packed
- ⅓ cuppine nuts or walnuts — lightly toasted
- ½ cupgrated parmesan
- 1garlic clove
- 1 tbsplemon juice
- salt and black pepper
Method
- 01
Pulse the basil, nuts and garlic in a food processor until coarsely chopped. Scrape the bowl down.
- 02
With the motor running, pour the infused olive oil in a steady stream until it comes together as a loose paste.
- 03
Pulse in the parmesan and lemon juice, then season. Do not over-process — pesto turns bitter and muddy if the blades run too long.
- 04
Keep in a jar with a thin layer of plain oil on top to stop it browning. One serving is a heaped tablespoon; measure it rather than spooning by eye.
Built on
Standard pesto: 2 cups basil, ½ cup oil, ⅓ cup nuts, ½ cup hard cheese, 1 garlic clove.
Every recipe here names the conventional ratio underneath it. The cannabis part is a fat substitution, not new chemistry — so if the base is sound and the substitution is sound, the recipe is sound.
As written
2.5 mg / serving
1 mg2.5 mg25 mg
Set your infusion strength to move the dose.
Before you eat it
- These are estimates, not lab results. Treat the low end as the honest number and the high end as the thing to plan around.
- Start with one serving and wait two hours. Edibles take 30 to 120 minutes to come on, and the most common mistake is redosing before the first one lands.
- Test a small piece first. Potency is rarely even across a batch, especially if the infusion was not mixed thoroughly.
- Label anything you store with the date and the estimated dose, and keep it away from children, pets and anyone who did not ask for it.
- If you overdo it: you are not in danger, but it will be unpleasant. Find somewhere quiet, drink water, and wait it out. Do not drive.
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