Creamy Avocado Pasta
This is an amazingly simple recipe … and totally delicious in its simplicity. But there are also lots of toppings you could add that would compliment it beautifully, such as:
- panfried bacon or pancetta
- oven roasted tiny tomatoes with a few fresh basil leaves,
- garlic and parmesan croutons
- roasted crushed hazelnuts
- labne topped with fresh pine nut pesto
- chargrilled red peppers and / or chillies
- sour cream and homemade sweet chilli sauce
In fact, the list is endless! For a grain free version serve with spiralised zucchini, and with a lovely big fresh salad you have a wonderful meal in front of you.
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Need
- 2 cloves garlic small
- Handfuls basil
- 60 Grams fresh lemon juice
- 40 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 200 Grams avocado flesh (approx 1 very large or two medium)
- 40 Milliliters water plus some more as needed
- 1 Teaspoon pink salt flakes BUY
- Freshly ground pepper to taste
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Pasta
- 1.2 Litre water
- 20 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 1 Teaspoon pink salt flakes BUY
- 500 Grams dried short pasta of choice
- 1 lemon, zest only
Do
- 1
Place garlic into Thermomix bowl and chop 3 sec/speed 7.
- 2
Add basil and pulse 1 sec/Turbo twice.
- 3
Add remaining sauce ingredients and mix 10 sec/speed 5.
- 4
Scrape around sides and repeat until mix is smooth.
- 5
If the mixture is too thick, add another 20mls water and repeat.
- 6
Season with salt and pepper and set aside. Do not clean bowl.
- 7
Add water, olive oil and salt to Thermomix bowl and heat 10 mins/100ºC/speed 1.
- 8
Add pasta through hole in lid, and cook time as per packet directions/100ºC/Reverse/speed soft.
- 9
Drain pasta and put into a mixing bowl. Top with avocado sauce and stir through.
- 10
Serve topped with grated lemon zest or other topping of choice. Garnish with a few basil leaves.
