Green parsley sauce

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 1 bunch parsley
• 2 1 lemon
• 3 6 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 salt
• 5 pepper
• Total weight: 220 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	1 min.	25 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Remove stalks from 1 bunch parsley.
2	Boil a pan of salted water, put parsley leaves in for just 30 seconds.
3	Remove leaves from the boiling water, and plunge immediately into very cold water. You just have blanched the parsley, to keep the nice green colour.
4	Drain and dry leaves in a strainer by pressing them down in it.
5	Finish removing water by putting leaves on absorbant paper, and squeezing gently.
6	Put parsley in a blender, add salt and pepper, 1 lemon juice, 6 tablespoons olive oil, salt and pepper.
7	Blend until you get a thick liquid sauce.

Remarks

This sauce can't be kept waiting, otherwise it will loose its great green colour. If you absolutely need to keep it for a while, add a pinch vitamin C before blending.
To make a coulis instead of a sauce, replace olive oil with ice-cold water (or dry white wine), and only add the juice of half a lemon.

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