Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, vegan kale and avocado pesto pasta. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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This quick, easy kale avocado pesto pasta is a deliciously simple recipe, with a creamy texture and tons of flavor. A super healthy but comforting vegetarian and vegan pasta dinner! I am actually, seriously blogging another avocado-ey pasta dish.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have vegan kale and avocado pesto pasta using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan kale and avocado pesto pasta:
- Take 2 cups penne pasta
- Make ready 2 cups packed, roughly chopped kale leaves (washed and drained)
- Prepare 1 large ripe avocado
- Make ready 1/4 cup walnuts
- Make ready 1 small lemon/lime or half a large lemon/lime juice
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
- Prepare 1 large green chili/jalapeno pepper (or crushed red chilies); optional
- Take 3 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive oil (or more according to personal preference)
- Get to taste Salt
- Make ready Freshly ground black pepper (optional; I have used only green chilies)
Perfect for pasta or topped on avocado toast! Vegan avocado pesto pasta is a filling twist on classic pesto. Avocado pesto pasta is creamy, flavorful, and packed with nutrients from spinach and avocado. Join the newsletter list to be the first to hear about new recipes!
Steps to make Vegan kale and avocado pesto pasta:
- Cook pasta according to package instructions; al dente. Keep aside a cup of pasta water and drain, rinse with cold water and keep aside. Make sure to salt the water well.
- TO MAKE THE PESTO: - In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, combine the chopped kale, avocado chunks, chopped garlic, walnuts, salt, lemon juice and green chili.
- Drizzle olive oil through the open chute on top and blitz until fully combined, scraping the sides of the processor in between. - Do a taste test and add lemon juice, salt or oil if needed. Make a slightly coarse paste.
- Remove to a bowl and keep aside.
- Just before serving, stir in as much of the kale avocado pesto into the pasta and enjoy warm or at room temperature showered with more walnuts! If needed, stir in some of the pasta water to thin the pesto sauce. - Enjoy foodies!
- Notes - - Leftover pesto sauce can be stored in an airtight glass jar for up to 3 to 4 days. To store for a longer time, drizzle some oil over the pesto sauce to prevent the top from browning. - - Pestos are not only for pastas; you can use them up in sandwiches, as dips, on pizzas (instead of tomato sauce), in salads etc. - - Use any kind of pasta you love; it could be spaghetti, macaroni, spiral, rigatone, shell etc. - - Instead of walnuts, you can use cashews, sunflower seeds, almonds etc.
- For best results and taste, use EVOO (extra virgin olive oil) but if you cannot find it, regular refined oil will do. - - If you love cheese, stir in 1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese while making the pesto and serve with a sprinkle of more Parmesan!
I would go with avocado oil! This vegan roasted kale pesto pasta is oil free, vegan of course, and the base is all kale instead of basil giving you those extra health benefits we all need after the holidays. Kale is roasted with a ton of garlic, then blended with nutritional yeast, walnuts, veggie broth, lemon juice and salt and pepper. Bring the water back to a boil and add the pasta. Drain, and return the pasta to the pot.
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