Description
This vibrant spinach, avocado, and parsley pasta is a delicious way to get your greens in. Quick, versatile, and easy to make. Ready in 20 minutes or less.
Ingredients
Scale
- 250 gram pasta of your choice
- 100 gram spinach
- ½ cup parsley
- 1 avocado
- 4 garlic cloves
- salt and pepper (to taste)
- ¼ tbsp red chili flakes
- 4 tbsp cocunut milk
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- ¼ cup parmesan cheese
- 8 cashews
Instructions
- Blanch spinach and parsley in salted boiling water for 30 secs. Remove using tongs or a slotted spoon, and immediately put the blanched greens in an ice bath.
- Cook your favorite pasta in the same salted water until al dente (as per the package instructions). Drain the pasta and put into bowls.
- Roast garlic and cashews in a non-stick pan or in olive oil.
- Add blanched spinach and parsley, garlic and oil, avocado, cocunut milk, lemon juice, parmesan cheese, salt, and pepper to a food processor, and blend until smooth.
If you want the creamy sauce to be thinner then add in a few tablespoons of pasta water while blending. The starches in the pasta water help the sauce stick to the noodles and coat them evenly. - Taste the sauce and adjust any seasonings, if desired.
- Toss the sauce with cooked pasta. Sprinkle with more parmesan cheese or red chili flakes, if desired.
Notes
- Quickly blanch the spinach and basil before blending them into the sauce. Blanching brightens the color of the greens, locks in flavor, and helps retain nutrients. To blanch, simply add spinach and basil to boiling water for 30 seconds. Remove using tongs or a slotted spoon, and immediately put the blanched greens in an ice bath until blending into the sauce.
- Salt your pasta cooking water. Add plenty of salt so that your pasta water tastes like ocean water. Salting your pasta water is the best way to add flavor to pasta, so it won’t taste bland.
- Reserve pasta cooking water. Add in a few tablespoons of pasta water while blending. The starches in the pasta water help the sauce stick to the noodles and coat them evenly.
- Add veggies or herbs or your choice. You can add other herbs such as mint or basil instead of parsley. This pasta pairs well with tons of different veggies – sun-dried tomatoes, mushrooms, olives, broccoli, zucchini, etc.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Main Course
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: Green Pasta, Spinach Avocado Pasta