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Healthy Recipe: Sakara Life's Superfood Pesto

Whitney Tingle and Danielle Duboise created Sakara Life to provide healthy, whole food meals to people who want to eat cleaner and look better. Victoria Secret models Lily Aldridge and Erin Heatherton, as well as Iman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Lena Dunham, have all sampled this clean eating program, which currently delivers to six states (see them here). If you're not in the delivery area or just want to sample what organic, healthy eating is all about, we've got the perfect recipe to get you started: pesto. Full of healthy superfoods and antioxidants, this tasty sauce makes veggies and salads way more interesting. Sakara's Superfood Pesto: 2 cups arugula, roughly chopped 1/2 cup hemp seeds 1/2 tsp. spirulina 1 cup olive oil 1/2 cup lemon juice 1/3 cup nutritional yeast salt and pepper to taste Instructions: Combine the hemp seeds, arugula, salt, spirulina, nutritional yeast, and lemon juice in a food processor. Pulse a few times, and then begin to drizzle the olive oil into the mixture while continuing to pulse until the pesto is smooth. Taste, and adjust if needed with more salt or lemon juice. No one's saying you can't put this sauce on regular pasta (we'll look the

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Whitney Tingle and Danielle Duboise created Sakara Life to provide healthy, whole food meals to people who want to eat cleaner and look better. Victoria Secret models Lily Aldridge and Erin Heatherton, as well as Iman, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Lena Dunham, have all sampled this clean eating program, which currently delivers to six states (see them here).

If you're not in the delivery area or just want to sample what organic, healthy eating is all about, we've got the perfect recipe to get you started: pesto. Full of healthy superfoods and antioxidants, this tasty sauce makes veggies and salads way more interesting.

Sakara's Superfood Pesto:

2 cups arugula, roughly chopped

1/2 cup hemp seeds

1/2 tsp. spirulina

1 cup olive oil

1/2 cup lemon juice

1/3 cup nutritional yeast

salt and pepper to taste

Instructions:

Combine the hemp seeds, arugula, salt, spirulina, nutritional yeast, and lemon juice in a food processor. Pulse a few times, and then begin to drizzle the olive oil into the mixture while continuing to pulse until the pesto is smooth. Taste, and adjust if needed with more salt or lemon juice.

No one's saying you can't put this sauce on regular pasta (we'll look the other way!), but the Sakara Life girls recommend it on zucchini pasta (get the recipe here).