====== Mangold / Chard pesto ======

===== Ingredients =====

  * Mangold / chard
  * Garlic
  * Oil (the best quality you can afford)
  * Sunflower seeds (1kg for every 5 kg of cucumber)
  * Lemon juice


===== Method =====

  - Cut off the stalks of the chard (you can use these for [[kuckucksmuehle:documentation:recipes:pickled_chard_stalks|pickled chard stalks]])
  - Wash and chop the leaves into small pieces that will be easy to blend
  - Finely chop the garlic
  - Fill a blender with 50% chard, a splash of oil, 5% lemon juice, 5% garlic and top up with sunflower seeds 25%
  - Blend the mixture, if you need more fluid add oil
  - Blend until smooth

The pesto is ready to be eaten. 

**Please note** that if you want to preserve this you will need to: 
  * sterilize the jars
  * boil the full sealed jars with pesto inside for at least 5 minutes - if you miss this step the jars could explode later on in the pantry