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Avocado Pasta with Smoky Pecans. This 20 Minute Creamy Avocado Basil Sauce is great over spaghetti or zoodles. Serve with smoky spicy pecans for amazing flavor. Vegan Soyfree Recipe. Can be nutfree.
The minute your avocado is ripe and you realize you don’t want an avocado toast, enter this Creamy and Easy Avocado Pasta sauce! I mean it is practically avocado toast. Flour stuff, avocado and toasty pecans :)/
Simple everyday ingredients, super quick and great when paired with some smoky roasted pecans (or use tempeh crumbles or vegan bacon bits etc). Add a side salad for a filling dinner.
This pasta is great for summer. Not too hot, not too heavy.
Easy, Creamy, Dreamy, Smoky! How do you use up your avocado?
More Pastas from the blog
- Garlic Pasta with Cajun Cauliflower – super popular
- Rose Sauce Farfalle – so Creamy!
- Lentil Bolognese with Spaghetti.– Hearty
- Cauliflower Parmesan Pasta Bake – sliced cauliflower, baked then dressed in vegan mozz, baked over pasta
- Pumpkin Sage Pasta with pumpkin cream sauce and crisp Sage . so good.
- Black pepper Mac and Cheese with Potato Carrot Cheese Sauce
- Chickpea Chorizo, Quinoa shells in tomato sauce. GF – So Meaty.
Most of these can be made gluten-free by using gluten-free pasta. Confession, no one in my house really likes avocado, they just tolerate it in certain ways. This includes me 🙂 . Have you noticed the dearth of avocado toasts on the blog or my instagram? It just doesn’t agree with my tummy that way. This pasta, in dressing overs tacos or guacamole is how we use it most frequently.
Avocado Pasta with Smoky Pecans
Ingredients
- 8 oz pasta such as spaghetti
- 1 ripe avocado
- 1 small clove of garlic or 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/4 cup packed basil, , plus additional for garnish
- 3/4 cup water
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp nutritional yeast
- black pepper or cayenne
- zest of 1/2 a lemon, divided
Smoky Pecans:
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1 tsp oil
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/2 tsp sweet paprika
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp oregano
Instructions
- Cook the pasta/spaghetti according to package instructions, Drain.
- Blend the avocado with the rest of the ingredients and zest of quarter of a lemon. add more water as needed. Taste and adjust flavor.
- Make the smoky pecans (or use smoky tempeh , see notes): You can Bake or cook on the stove top: Add oil to the pecans and mix well. Add the spices, mix to coat and bake at 325 degrees F for for 15-20 minutes.Skillet: Add pecans and oil to a skillet over medium heat. Cook for 3 to 4 mins,, stir occasionally to roast. Add the spices and salt and mix in. Cook for half a minute.
- Mix the avocado sauce and pasta. Garnish with the smoky pecans, chopped basil, remaining lemon zest and serve.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
It looks so good ❤️
Made this recipe today and it was crazy fast, so simple and absolutely bursting with flavor! I had it all set up to take a photo and then I forgot and took a bite. I can’t understand why this is so good. It’s probably one of the simplest recipes I’ve ever made. Every recipe of yours that I have made turns out phenomenally. Please don’t ever stop doing what you do!
yay!
awesome and so creative – would love to hear ideas of other things to do with the sauce besides pasta and veggie noodles. I tried it on eggplant and the eggplant overpowered the sauce – I wonder what else could this pair with that would let the sauce shine? thanks you have become my go to site for everything!
Zucchini has a much milder flavour than eggplant. I like adding it to grilled veggie wraps or just atop grilled or sauteed veggies. Quinoa would be a nice partner with this sauce and on my portobello mushroom burger on this link: would be nice as well Vegan Portobello Mushroom Burger or my other vegan burger options =) I hope this gives you some good ideas to enjoy Joy!!
Just made it! It was very delicious. I added some chilli flakes on top for extra spice :)!
cool! I put chilli flakes on everything
This is one of the best pasta sauces I have ever had! It’s great on other stuff too! So easy to make and soooooo satisfying to eat!
wow! awesome. exactly – it can jazz just about anything up. glad you enjoyed it
This was SO good! I made it with Tempeh instead of Pecans. However, I punched up the seasonings in the Tempeh by adding a little Wright’s Liquid Smoke, along with some nutritional yeast, a few diced sun-dried tomatoes (oil-packed), extra garlic powder, some onion powder, a teaspoon of maple syrup, a little balsamic vinegar and low-sodium soy sauce.
yum
Delicious! At first the sauce seemed too runny but no it was just right and the pecans put it over the top. I can get avocadoes locally all year so, glad to have a recipe for them!
Had an avocado to use up and whipped this up for lunch. No one got to taste it as i ate it all! so good!
awesome!
What a simple, creative, and delicious dish! This will be on regular rotation for sure!