This simple recipe is made with avocado, pasta, and Italian pesto. Creamy pureed avocado is blended with olive oil, lemon juice and bold, flavor-packed pine nut-basil pesto. It can be served sprinkled with grated Parmesan cheese (optional).
Avocado Pesto Pasta
Avocado Pesto Pasta
Course:
Main Course
Cuisine:
American
Keyword:
avocado pesto pasta
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb pasta of your choice
- 1 avocado, ripe
- 1 tablespoon prepared pesto
- juice of 1/2 lemon
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- salt black pepper
Instructions
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Cook the pasta according to the package directions.
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Place avocado flesh together with all of the other ingredients in a food processor.
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Drain the pasta. Toss with the sauce and serve immediately. Serve with grated parmesan cheese (optional).
Yum!! This looks absolutely fantastic and it’s so easy to prepare! I’m defenitely bookmarking this for the future!!
xox Amy
I hope you will like it. No, I’m sure you will like it 🙂
Made this tonight; used much more sauce per serving. Yummy!!! Will add this to my book of favourite recipes.
I am new to your site, definitely getting your newsletters and checking out your recipes – avocado ones first.
Thank you.
Great! Welcome aboard!
My husband absolutely loved this. He said it was his new favorite pasta dish. That is saying a lot since we both are kind of food snobs. Seriously so delicious. This will be a norm recipe for me. Thanks a lot!
You are welcome! 🙂
Made this tonite….it is great!! Easy, quick, and healthy! Boom!
That’s cool, Anna! 🙂