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Creamy Avocado Pasta

  • Super simple
  • 0:20 m
  • 8 ingredients

This Creamy Avocado Pasta combines the rich, buttery texture of avocado and the freshness of spinach, resulting in a super quick and nutritious dish in under 30 mins. Whether you’re serving it for a special dinner or a quick weeknight meal, we promise you this pasta is a crowdpleaser! Check out the recipe below!

Serves: 2

Ingredients

For the Avocado Sauce

  • 1 large avocado
  • 30g basil
  • 70g spinach
  • 1 lemon
  • 25g nutritional yeast
  • 35ml olive oil
  • Salt & pepper

For the Crispy Kale

  • 100g curly kale
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • flakey salt

To Serve

  • 2 portions of spaghetti
  • plant-based parmesan
  • olive oil
  • salt and pepper to taste

Before you start

Oven preheated to 200*C | Baking tray | Food processor | Big pot | Frying pan with lid

Step 1

Cook the pasta

  • Bring a large pot of salted water to the boil, add the pasta and cook until al dente

Ingredients

  • 2 portions of spaghetti

Step 2

Prepare the avocado sauce

  • Halve and destone the avocado and squeeze the flesh into the food processor
  • Add the basil leaves (including the stem), and spinach to the food processor
  • Halve the lemon and squeeze the juice into the food processor, catching any pips in your free hand 
  • Finally, add the nutritional yeast and olive oil and blitz into a smooth, creamy sauce. You may need a splash of water to loosen
  • Taste and season to perfection with salt and pepper

Ingredients

  • 1 large avocado
  • 30g basil
  • 70g spinach
  • 1 lemon
  • 25g nutritional yeast
  • Salt & pepper

Step 3

Prepare the crispy kale

  • Pour the kale onto a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and a big pinch of flakey sea salt. Massage the olive and salt into the kale for a minute
  • Transfer to the oven and bake for 8 minutes, shaking the tray half way through cooking

Ingredients

  • 35ml olive oil
  • 100g curly kale
  • flakey salt

Step 4

Finish and serve

  • Drain the pasta into a colander, saving a cup full of pasta water
  • Pour in the sauce and pasta water to the pot of pasta and fold until each piece of spaghetti is coated in the sauce
  • Twist the bright green pasta into 2 serving bowls, sprinkle the kale over each bowl, dress with a good drizzle of olive oil, a decent crack of black pepper and a generous grating of plant based parmesan

Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • plant-based parmesan
  • olive oil
  • salt and pepper to taste