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    Eat Love Eat » Sauces

    5-Minute Vibrant Spring Sauce

    Published: Apr 13, 2016, Last Modified: April 2, 2022, By Sasha Hooper · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    I'm beyond excited. It is one beautiful morning! British asparagus has landed in the shops. Spring is here. And so today is the perfect day to share with you my 5-Minute Vibrant Spring Sauce. This stuff is liquid gold, I tell you. Well, it's liquid green but humour me.

    A jar with a green sauce with a spoon.

    I am itching with excitement because I just know what's around the corner. March is a pretty bleak month for produce and we are literally about to be catapulted into a season of abundance. Every year at this time, I can't believe my luck that I live in a place where we can grow such incredible food that we can cook and eat every day. I'm so grateful for that.

    Watch this space for a thousand asparagus recipes, coming your way soon. I jest (but not really). The first one is coming on Friday (sneak peek above!) and will showcase one of the many ways to utilise this awesome sauce.

    Peas, mint and cashews in an array at napkin.

    This 5-Minute Vibrant Spring Sauce is a revelation. It's the result of one of those happy experiments where you're like "I know, I'll blend all of these things together and it will be amazing", but really, inside you're like "I'm not actually sure this is going to work but let's go with it." Well. It worked. Like, it really worked. I have captured the essence of spring and bottled it in the form of a sauce. And it's delicious!

    The sauce is bright, fresh and creamy, all at the same time, whilst being entirely vegan. I'm not vegan, but I love it when I can make something that tastes so luscious, but without relying on dairy to achieve it. Yay for cashew nuts! The ingredients are simply peas (frozen ones are perfect!), soaked cashews, basil, mint, lime juice and some water and oil to bring it all together. Simple.

    So get your ingredients ready (get those cashews soaked!) in preparation for Friday when I'll be sharing the perfect Spring recipe to slather this sauce all over. Go!

    Frozen peas, mint and cashews on a napkin.

    A jar with a green sauce with a spoon.

    5-Minute Vibrant Spring Sauce

    A vibrant spring green sauce, perfect for dressings and dipping into with chips
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    Prep Time: 5 minutes
    Cook Time: 0 minutes
    Total Time: 5 minutes
    Servings: 8
    Author: Sasha Hooper

    Equipment

    • Blender

    Ingredients 

    • 130 g frozen peas, (1 cup) defrosted
    • 50 g cashew nuts, (⅓ cup) soaked for at least 4 hours, or overnight
    • juice of 1 lime
    • 10 g basil leaves, (½ cup)
    • 10 g mint leaves, (½ cup)
    • 120 ml water, (½ cup)
    • 3 tablespoons rapeseed or olive oil
    • ¼ teaspoon salt

    Instructions

    • Place all ingredients into a blender (if you don’t have a high powered blender, ensure that you have soaked your cashews for a sufficient length of time). Blend until smooth, adding extra water if needed or desired.
      130 g frozen peas, 50 g cashew nuts, juice of 1 lime, 10 g basil leaves, 10 g mint leaves, 120 ml water, 3 tablespoons rapeseed or olive oil, ¼ teaspoon salt
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    Notes

    Nutrition information is for 8 servings and yields 1 cup of dressing.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 55kcal | Carbohydrates: 6.6g | Protein: 2.1g | Fat: 2.8g | Saturated Fat: 0.5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1.5g | Sodium: 19.5mg | Potassium: 101.5mg | Fiber: 1.1g | Sugar: 1.7g | Vitamin A: 17.3IU | Vitamin C: 12mg | Calcium: 10.6mg | Iron: 0.7mg
    Course Sauce
    Cuisine British
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    1. Sue says

      September 24, 2021 at 2:11 pm

      5 stars
      Looking forward to trying this 🙂

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    2. Scott Groth says

      April 23, 2016 at 2:33 pm

      This recipe looks really tasty- particularly on a hot summer day. Can't wait to give it a try.

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      • Sasha says

        April 23, 2016 at 8:39 pm

        Thanks Scott! I hope you give it a try - let me know how it goes!

        Reply
    3. Beth @ Eat Within Your Means says

      April 14, 2016 at 12:09 am

      This looks so wonderful! I cook all vegan at home, and make sauces with cashews all the time. I can't wait to make this!!!

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      • Sasha says

        April 14, 2016 at 5:49 pm

        Yay! I hope you love it. Let me know what you think!

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