This vegan and easy Avocado Basil Cream Pasta recipe is perfect for the summer. It’s quick to prepare, served cold and with fresh avocado, basil and tomatoes.
Cold pasta is one of my favorite things to eat in the summer (besides the usual suspects of ice cream and popsicles but you know, real food-meals). With freshly harvested basil and cherry tomatoes, this dish is my personal little ode to summer produce.
Avocados are the perfect base for creamy sauces. For this green sauce, I’ve added avocados, basil, lime juice, salt, garlic in a food processor and added water to thin it out. No added oil.
To make it gluten-free, you can simply use gluten-free pasta. And to make it low-carb, you can use spiralized zucchini instead of regular pasta (if you need more instructions on how to make zucchini pasta, check out my raw & vegan Zucchini Pasta with avocado sauce recipe).
And because this creamy Avocado Basil Cream Pasta is best served cold, it’s also a great meal to put in a mason jar or lunch box and take to work, university, beach or wherever you’re heading.
Avocado Basil Cream Pasta
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups farfalle pasta aka bow-tie pasta
- 2 avocados , pitted and peeled
- 1 cup fresh basil
- 2 teaspoons lime juice
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 small garlic clove , peeled
- 1/4 cup olives , pitted and halved
- 6 cherry tomatoes , cubed
Instructions
- Boil the pasta.
- Meanwhile, add the avocados, basil, lime juice, salt, water, and garlic clove in a food processor and pulse until it’s a creamy sauce. You may have to scrape down the sides a couple of times.
- Once the noodles are soft, drain them and put them back in the pot.
- Pour over the avocado sauce and and give it a good mix.
- Taste and add more salt & lime juice to taste.
- Divide the Avocado Pasta onto two plates and top it with olives and tomatoes. Enjoy!
Notes
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What are your favorite summer meals? What are your favorite uses for avocado?
This is totally the kind of sauce that immediately makes me think of zoodles, but sometimes a big bowl of chilled bowties hits the spot like raw veg just never will regardless of it’s noodle-esque shape. It looks beautiful and absolutely summer perfect. I think I’ve consumed more avocados this summer than any other and I do not plan on stopping anytime soon, so this is the perfect sauce for me :)
I think so too. Zoodles are great.. for a change. But not for a permanent substitution :D Sometimes a girl just needs pasta.
Oh I wish I could say the same about my avocado consumption, I definitely have to buy more avos – oh no, all that avocado talk gave me a serious craving for guacamole! :P
This may be a stupid question, but, what kind of olives?
I used Green Manzanilla olives but you can use your favorite ones! :)