5-Minute Italian Green Sauce – a flavorful sauce featuring herbs, greens, vinegar and spices. Perfect over your favorite salad, on a pizza, with chicken, and the list goes on…
This simple Italian Green Sauce is an easy five-minute sauce with under 10 ingredients. Perfect as a salad dressing, a pizza sauce, or even as a marinade for chicken.
To make this delicious sauce, just add garlic, shallots, red wine vinegar, parsley, basil, greens (spinach, beet greens, etc.), spices, and olive oil to a food processor and blend until well combined. That’s it! A simple, homemade sauce that will be new go-to dressing and sauce.
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Italian Green Sauce: Tips, Tricks and Tools
All you need for this simple sauce recipe is a food processor or blender.
Variations: Feel free to use more basil and parsley instead of spinach or beet greens. I would recommend sticking to more neutral and delicate greens (spinach, beet greens, arugula, watercress, microgreens) as heartier and more pungent greens (kale, mustard greens, chard) won’t blend as well and/or will cause the sauce to be bitter.
Ideas for using Italian Green Sauce:
- Use it as a pizza sauce – it’s especially good with a breakfast pizza or with zucchini and prosciutto.
- Drizzle it over your favorite salad or even veggie side dish.
- Spread it on a sandwich.
- Mix it into a grain like quinoa or rice for a flavorful Italian twist.
We hope you love this 5-Minute Italian Green Sauce!
It’s quick, simple, and the perfect sauce for just about any salad, side dish, veggie or protein!
Love this simple sauce recipe? Check out our other delicious dressing and sauce recipes like this Amazing Tahini Sauce or our Apple Cider Vinegar Dijon Dressing.
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5-minute Italian Green Sauce
Ingredients
- 2-4 cloves garlic
- 1 shallot cut into chunks
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup parsley
- 1/2 cup basil
- 2 cups greens beet / spinach greens
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon Himalayan sea salt
- 1/2 cup olive oil
Instructions
- Combine: Add all ingredients, except olive oil, into a blender or food processor. Pulse until mixture is chopped. Slowly add in olive oil while the food processor is running until well combined and smooth. Enjoy!
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