I may have mentioned it once or two thousand times, but my mom’s yard has two awesome avocado trees (awesomecado trees?). Recently she sent me home with a ton and I ate some, froze some and gave some away.
But, I still had a lot left so I was lucky when Sheila from Striding Mom mentioned an Avocado Pasta Recipe to me last week. She gave me a rough draft and I used that as the basic idea for dinner the other night.
Creamy Avocado Sauce Recipe
This sauce recipe is vegan and gluten free. (Choose the pasta based on your needs.)
Ingredients:
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1 cup avocado (I had very ripe chunks that I measured)
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1 Tb. olive oil
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1 Tb. minced garlic
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1 Tb. lemon juice and zest from that lemon
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8 basil leaves
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2 Tb. unsweetened milk substitute (add as needed to desired consistency)
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Salt and Pepper to taste (I think more is betta)
Place in food processor, or blender if you have no idea when exactly you lost/broke your food processor.
Blend without milk sub and add as needed to desired consistency. Mine was very thick at first and wouldn’t blend until I added 1 Tb. milk.
Serve over hot pasta. I think it’s best at room temperature, but store the rest in the fridge. This would be a great dish for a summer BBQ because it’s super creamy, but not mayo-based so you don’t have to worry about it going bad quickly.
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Question: If you could have any kind of tree, what kind would you have?
I’d have a watermelon tree… but I’d never lay under it.
Made this for dinner tonight, atop home-made wholemeal fettucine (I even milled the flour myself!) – it was so amazingly delicious, the lemon really sets it off. Thankyou!
I would like a peach tree so that I wouldn’t go and buy them and have them turn to mush or attacked by fruit flies by the time I eat them all. Plus, I could makes lotsa peach pies. And Cobbler.
I need a blackberry bush, too. I really don’t want to take a bowl with me on my runs to have to pick them.
I would LOVE to have an avocado and cherry tree. I would die of excitement every season!
Pinned! 🙂
I would like a blueberry tree/bush!
I am planning to start a Whole30 in a couple of weeks, so I’ve been one the lookout for some good recipes with avocado lately. This looks like it would be really tasty on top of some poached eggs, or a piece of fish! Yum – thanks 🙂
-Emily K.
I love avocados. I’m going to try but I have to admit I hope it tastes better than it looks. Thanks.
Do you think this could be made with regular milk instead of the substitute? I want it in my belly now and I don’t have any faux milk.
Yes, I just didn’t want anyone to use a vanilla milk! OG milk works.
Dinner just got amazing.
I make raw sauces like this all the time and pour it over raw spiralized zucchini noodles! I just want a fruit farm
Thanks so much! I can’t wait for my medal hook 🙂
Looks awesome!!!! I love avocado because it gives you all of the creamy deliciousness and none of the bad-for-you fats.
This is such a simple and easy meal to make! Great for when you just need to eat something appetizing but simple to cook.
Thanks for the recipe. If only avocados are not so expensive here, I’ll be making this all the time!
Just a plain old apple tree, then I can have cider and fruit!
I would want a pineapple tree. And I would like for the pineapple to not be so full of sugar, but still taste amazing. Oh, and I wouldn’t mind if they would occasionally turn themselves into pineapple juice either 😉
YUM! I’ve seen sauces made out of avocado before, but this one sound really good. Thanks for sharing!
How many calories in a serving? And about how much in a serving? I over do it with anything avocado. Don’t want to go crazy!
Any sort of citrus tree. Those don’t grow in Ohio. I’ll have to settle for apple trees.
This looks so good… I bought two avocados today to make it later this week! I’d love to have a white peach tree, which is apparently native to Massachusetts, where I live, but if I could have a magic tree that didn’t need the right conditions I’d love a coconut tree!
I want an avocado tree!! I could eat them every day!! They are so expensive here in KS and half the time when I cut into them they are bad – not cool!!!
Pinned this recipe – gonna have to try it!!!
Do avocadoes freeze well? I had no idea you could freeze them, but I guess you can freeze guacamole though… hmmmm… I’m so intrigued. 🙂
I was wondering the same thing. interesting.
Umm… come make dinner for me! I’d love an avocado tree for obvious reasons but I think an orange tree would be pretty convenient too 🙂
I am really all about the peaches in the summer and would totes enjoy a peach tree. On a side note, I just started liking avocados (I know…) so I neeeeed to make this recipe! Thanks for sharing!
Oh my! This looks so amazing! I’ve got to try it!
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So. Freaking. Making. This.
SPEECHLESS from my jealousy of your avocado tree. Can I have all the trees the grow fruit in my possession so I never have to buy them again? Regardless of the fact that I live in a city and have no lawn. Whatever. They’ll be magic trees that don’t need soil. So there!
I would want a guava tree. A semester in Tanzania with a guava tree in our yard spoiled me. I’ve never been able to find guavas that measured up to ones plucked fresh from a tree.
That avocado sauce would be so perfect around Halloween! The color is perfect! Or, anytime, really.
I would have a money tree. Does that count? The amount of fabulous running gear out there is way out of proportion with the amount of money I have.
If money tree is not acceptable, I choose banana tree!
I was going to say a money tree as well. I’m sticking with it. Then I’d have the dough to pay for all the things that actually do grow on trees.
Omg yum. That is all!
I need to eat gluten free and the other day I was making my husband spaghetti and red sauce and had a serious craving for some pasta (GF of course), this would be perfect to try! I am not a sauce person but I am for sure an avocado person! Thanks for the recipe!