Recipe of Homemade Vegan kale and avocado pesto pasta

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With nutritious kale, heart-healthy avocado and walnuts, making a tasty, filling and nutritious meal could not be easier! Like I said, I love kale and avocado and nothing better to use it up in than in a pesto sauce; fresh, quick to make and needs no cooking or frying! To store for a longer time, drizzle some oil over the pesto sauce to prevent. This creamy avocado pesto pasta has lots of fresh basil, garlic, and lemon.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:

1. Prepare 2 cups penne pasta
2. Make ready 2 cups packed, roughly chopped kale leaves (washed and drained)
3. Take 1 large ripe avocado
4. Take 1/4 cup walnuts
5. Prepare 1 small lemon/lime or half a large lemon/lime juice
6. Make ready 2 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
7. Make ready 1 large green chili/jalapeno pepper (or crushed red chilies); optional
8. Make ready 3 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive oil (or more according to personal preference)
9. Make ready to taste Salt
10. Take Freshly ground black pepper (optional; I have used only green chilies)

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. This California-inspired pesto pasta recipe combines the light, creamy flavor of the avocado with a rich basil pesto for a unique vegetarian pasta dish. Toss the prepared pasta with your prepared pesto until well combined, then gently toss together with the diced avocado, being.

Steps to make Vegan kale and avocado pesto pasta:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Remove to a bowl and keep aside.
5. 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!
6. 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.
7. 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!

This California-inspired pesto pasta recipe combines the light, creamy flavor of the avocado with a rich basil pesto for a unique vegetarian pasta dish. Toss the prepared pasta with your prepared pesto until well combined, then gently toss together with the diced avocado, being. This vegan pesto pasta with homemade kale pesto and spring vegetables makes for a quick and delicious mid-week meal that can I stirred it through some wholemeal pasta and added lots of green veggies to it to turn it into a spring-inspired dish. If you want this dish to be extra quick, don't bother. This recipe for Vegan Kale Avocado Pesto will take your pasta and bread to the next level.

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