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Salad leaf pesto

The tastiest way to use up limp leaves

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Emily on Toast
Mar 17, 2025
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It’s Food Waste Action Week so I asked my instagram audience what food they are most likely to waste, and by far the most common answer was salad leaves! It’s not surprising - bags of leaves can go limp pretty quickly, and even worse, slimy.

My favourite way to use them up is to make pesto. It’s really tasty, flexible based on what you’ve have in, and a…

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