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Simple Avocado Pasta

Healthy & delish in under 30mins!
Course Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine Vegan, Vegetarian, Worldwide
Keyword avocado pasta, vegan food, vegan pasta, vegetarian pasta
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 22 minutes
Servings 4 people
Calories 596kcal
Author AnotherFoodBlogger

Equipment

  • Food processor/blender
  • measuring/weighing utensils
  • Chef Knives
  • Chopping board
  • frying pan
  • saucepan

Ingredients

Sauce

  • 1 avocado
  • 100 g spinach
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice
  • 150 ml coconut cream
  • salt

Other

  • 350-400 g pasta
  • 300 g cherry tomatoes
  • oil
  • 25 g pinenuts
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Toast pinenuts in a dry pan and set aside
  • Make sauce by blending all the ingredients together in a food processor
  • Cook pasta
  • While pasta is boiling cut the tomatoes in ½ or ¼ (size depending) and fry in olive oil
  • Add avocado sauce to pan and simmer on low heat
  • Pour cooked pasta and a little of the starchy pasta water into tomato pan
  • Serve with toasted pinenuts

Notes

Tips/Tricks

  • the avocado sauce will discolour after a while, so best to make it fresh/ an hour or so serving
  • ALWAYS add some of the pasta water to your sauce as the starch in it helps to bind the sauce to the pasta

Nutrition

Calories: 596kcal | Carbohydrates: 78g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 13g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Sodium: 39mg | Potassium: 917mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 2787IU | Vitamin C: 34mg | Calcium: 66mg | Iron: 4mg