Trader Joe's "Pesto and Quinoa"

Rating 9/10
What a discovery!! This isn’t your typical pesto sauce for pasta. This is a mix of pesto and quinoa in a jar. The purpose is more for spreading on protein or to put in a salad. I’ve seen someone put it in pasta, but it looked DRY AF. I personally put this on chicken breast and it was damn near perfect.


I don’t know the exact price, but I’m almost positive it was around $3. This product has a long refrigerator life, like 2 years… which is lovely.


The taste was EXTRAORDINARY. There is such a fresh pesto flavor, with the texture of quinoa. Like I said earlier, I put this on my chicken. I added a layer of the pesto to the top of chicken with a tomato slice and then later adding pepper jack cheese to the top. Trader Joe’s is always coming up with things that make me feel more “chefy”.


UPDATE: Well I have an update on this product... it started molding, despite the expiration date being in two years. I wrote this review weeks and weeks ago, but I'm glad that I was able to add an update before the official upload. Now I'll be giving it a 4/10 and won't buy this again boooo.

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