When made with fresh mint, pine nuts and a bit of balsamic vinegar the fresh mint pesto will have a lovely flavour.

Very quick to make and ideal as:

• A tasty dip for samosas, chicken nuggets, etc
• Blended with pasta
• Or even on top of fresh fruit like strawberries.

Fresh mint is great for making dips and pesto. The recipe below shows how to use it to make sweet mint pesto – but there are lots of other ingredients you can use to make your own preferred flavour. Such as pinenuts, adding basil, etc.

How to use the sweet mint pesto

Great as a dip, added to pasta or on top of meat.

For example it tastes great combined with samosas or even chicken nuggests.

It’s very easy to store in a freezer – just use an ice cube tray to store it.

Ideal if (like mine) your mint is growing like crazy and you want to store it.

Fresh mint leaves add real flavour to many recipes, like the sweet mint pesto recipe.

You can buy Fresh Mint in many shops (for example you can Buy it on Amazon)

But it’s also very easy to grow at home.

For example the After eight mint on the right.

• Was planted from a plug plant
• Grown in a pot (to stop it taking over the garden)
• And ready to use withing 30 days.
• And will keep growing and growing

If you want to grow your own mint at home then all you need is a plug plant and a pot.

But do note the different mint types all have a unique flavour (Orange mint, Spearmint, Apple Mint, etc.).

How to grow mint