Avocado Pesto Pasta - Vegan
"Rich and creamy with all your favourite pesto flavours! Who knew flavour this big could come together so quickly."
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
6
ingredients
- 1 lb dried linguine
- 1 bunch basil leaves (about 2 1/2 ounces)
- 1⁄2 cup pine nuts
- 2 ripe avocados, pitted and peeled
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (about 1/2 a lemon)
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1⁄2 cup olive oil
- salt
- fresh ground black pepper
- 1⁄4 cup chopped sun-dried tomato (optional)
directions
- In a large pot, bring water to a boil. Add pasta and cook to package directions. While pasta cooks, in a food processor, blend basil, pine nuts, avocados, lemon juice, garlic, and olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
- Drain pasta. In a large serving bowl, toss pesto with hot, freshly cooked pasta and garnish each serving with a basil leaf. For an extra touch of color and flavor, top pasta with sun-dried tomatoes.
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Reviews
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I add chopped pepperoncinis instead of sundried tomatoes for a little kick and it's so good. Make what you plan to eat during that meal though. Because of the avocado, it doesn't look as appetizing the next day as the sauce browns overnight. -
Great recipe!!! I used walnuts as that's what I had on hand, and instead of sundried tomatoes, I added diced fresh tomatoes. Surprisinly filling! -
This was truly, truly delicious! I cut the pasta back to 10 oz for our family, and found that half the sauce was enough. That left me another 3/4 c or so that I can use for some other wonderful purpose...score! I used walnuts instead of pine nuts as the latter are running $21/lb at the moment, and I cut the oil back a smidge. Otherwise I made it as written. As I added things to the food processor for the pesto I felt more and more virtuous LOL, which made enjoying the decadent final product all the more fun! I used fresh tomatoes instead of sun-dried out of preference. Thanks so much for posting! Made for ZWT 7 for the Vivacious Violets.
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This was truly, truly delicious! I cut the pasta back to 10 oz for our family, and found that half the sauce was enough. That left me another 3/4 c or so that I can use for some other wonderful purpose...score! I used walnuts instead of pine nuts as the latter are running $21/lb at the moment, and I cut the oil back a smidge. Otherwise I made it as written. As I added things to the food processor for the pesto I felt more and more virtuous LOL, which made enjoying the decadent final product all the more fun! I used fresh tomatoes instead of sun-dried out of preference. Thanks so much for posting! Made for ZWT 7 for the Vivacious Violets.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
KristinV
Australia
<p>I love, love, love to cook. Most of all I love to cook for friends and family because it is such an awesome feeling to bring the people that mean the most to me through such an essential ingredient for life... FOOD! I am a vegan the switch opened up the world of cooking in a way I never imagined! People constantly ask me 'what do you eat?' and I can confidently tell them that if they were to leave meat and dairy behind they would find an enormous world of food out there that they have never heard of! And it is all more delicious and nourishing than animal products. My ultimate goal is to shake my 9 to 5 office job and become a caterer or open my own restaurant and I am forever dreaming of my big lottery win that will allow me to do this.</p>
