Quick and Creamy Avocado Pasta (15 Min, Vegan)
- Updated on Aug 28, 2014
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Cream. Delightful and delicious, playful yet palatable. And a great way to grow those hips or man tits! We recently amazed the world with our audacious claim that pancakes could be made using only bananas and eggs as the ingredients (Banana-Egg-Pancakes), and we were happily proven right. So here we are again, claiming a creamy sauce can be made without cream. WTF?
Yep, leave those cows alone and pick up an avocado instead. When mashed up, avocado flesh takes on a lovely creamy texture, and mixed with the combination of lemon, salt and pepper it makes a simple but unique flavour.
Throw in some cherry tomatoes and soy sauce to add a little tang and you’ve got one hell of a satisfying meal. Look at the picture above and tell me that doesn’t look awesome.
Health Benefits – Creamy Avocado Pasta
Fat is bad. Right? Wrong? The debate has been raging for a long while now, but the answer is really quite simple. In a fatty nutshell: saturated fat = not so good, unsaturated fat = good. This mouth-watering dish bears this in mind, with only 3g of it being ‘not so good’ fat. The other 17g is ‘good’ fat, needed as part of a balanced diet. Check it out here (Fatty Fat Fats).
If you’ve read some of our other recipes you’ll see how much we love to bang on about fiber. Fiber is absolutely ESSENTIAL to a good diet, and most people aren’t getting enough of it. Fiber helps to cut down the risk of heart disease, diabetes, strokes and numerous other evils (Fabulous Fiber), and one serving of this dish contains 66% of your GDA.
Combine that with 50% of your recommended vitamin C dose and 36% of iron and only one question remains: why the hell aren’t you face down in a bowl right now??
We’d also like to point out that this dish is fully vegan, and no animals were harmed during the making of it. Win win.
Ingredients
- 5 oz wholegrain spaghetti
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes
- ¼ cup basil, fresh (dry basil will do too, but use less)
- 1 large avocado
- 2-3 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1 clove garlic
- Salt to taste
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
Optional
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds (roasted)
- 1 thumb ginger, fresh
Instructions
- Bring water to boil and chuck in pasta.5 oz wholegrain spaghetti
- Use pasta cooking time to prepare the avocado sauce:
- Mash the avocado flesh with a fork in a bowl until its creamy (if you have a food processor, use that).1 large avocado
- Add olive oil, lemon juice, soy sauce and nutritional yeast to the mashed avocado.2-3 tbsp lemon juice, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tsp olive oil, 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
- Cut the basil leaves and add them to the bowl.¼ cup basil, fresh
- Grate the garlic and ginger and add them too. Remember, ginger is optional. Unless you’re born that way.1 clove garlic, 1 thumb ginger, fresh
- If the mix is too thick then add some tablespoons of water.
- Drain the pasta and place it back in the pot. Add the avocado sauce and stir nicely.
- Halve the cherry tomatoes and throw in with pasta.1 cup cherry tomatoes
- Sprinkle with sesame seeds if you have them to hand and season with a bit of salt.1 tbsp sesame seeds, Salt to taste
- Boom! Ready 🙂
NOTES
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26 comments
It was SO AMAZING! I strongly recommend trying this dish!!
Woohoo, that’s awesome to hear, Christina! Really glad you enjoyed it as well
Wow. i will be trying out some of the reciepes frm the website. quick, easy and healthy is what we all need now a days.
thanks. Regards x Nina
Made this last night. My husband and I both loved it! It was a nice change from pasta with red sauce. It will definitely be added to our dinner rotation!
Hooray! Really happy to hear it, and thanks for writing. Always great to hear somebody out there is enjoying our recipes 🙂
Loved it. Great sauce! QUICK & easy…Wow & yummy.
Woohoo! Glad it hit the spot, Terri 🙂
I never post reviews but I have to do it for this recipe. I was looking for vegetarian recipes and came up on this one. It seemed a bit strange – avocados and soy sauce? But trust me, THIS IS AMAZING. I’m a sucker for avocado and the pasta is honestly godly. Everyone should try this recipe!!!
Ah wow, what a compliment! And thanks for breaking your no-reviews to say it! Really glad you enjoyed it. Haha yes, it’s a funny mix but I agree – it all comes together so well!
My family and I are trying out some vegetarian options. We loved this easy, quick recipe.
Hey Jeanne, cool! Really glad you liked it. Enjoy the rest that you make, too! 🙂
Thank you for posting this