Pesto Hoja Santa-Chaya

Name: Pesto Hoja Santa-Chaya
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: about 1¾ cups (400 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: about ⅓ cup (40 g) Pine Nuts; 30 g Pumpkin Seeds; about ½ cup (140 ml) Olive Oil; about 1 bunch (60 g) Parsley; about 1½ bunches (60 g) Basil; 30 g Hoja Santa; 30 g Chaya; about 1 clove (4 g) Garlic; 1 cup (100 g) Parmesan

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Elena Reygadas recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Elena Reygadas.

CONDIMENT · GNOCCHI & PASTA

In the published recipe, this is the condiment for potato gnocchi.

Reygadas' hoja santa-chaya pesto for gnocchi.

On the jar

PESTO

Method: blend
Yield: about 1¾ cups
Ingredients: 9

Blender sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Olive Oil 140 ml

Ingredients

Pine Nutsabout ⅓ cup (40 g)
Pumpkin Seeds30 g
Olive Oilabout ½ cup (140 ml)
Parsleyabout 1 bunch (60 g)
Basilabout 1½ bunches (60 g)
Hoja Santa30 g
Chaya30 g
Garlicabout 1 clove (4 g)
Parmesan1 cup (100 g)

Method

This sauce needs a blender. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Combine measured ingredients and blend until smooth.
Taste and adjust salt and acid.

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Provenance

Elena Reygadas. Mexican / contemporary. Cited awards include: Michelin 1* (Rosetta, CDMX).

Originally published as Pesto Hoja Santa–Chaya.

Adapted from a Elena Reygadas recipe (Elena Reygadas / Directo al Paladar México).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Elena Reygadas / Directo al Paladar México (published as “Pesto Hoja Santa–Chaya”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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