You can make our avocado pasta recipe in 15 minutes and you don’t need any special equipment for the creamy avocado sauce, just a bowl and fork.
Our avocado sauce is surprisingly simple to make. It’s super creamy, and you don’t use butter or cream to make it. This is one of my favorite avocado recipes.
When we first shared this recipe, some of our readers thought this was guacamole pasta, but everyone who tried it ended up loving it! We love this recipe so much, we’ve even tried it with sweet potato noodles.
Key Ingredients
- Pasta: I love spaghetti, but use your favorite pasta for this recipe. I’ve also made it using chickpea and lentil pasta, which added some extra protein.
- Avocado: You can make this easy avocado sauce with 1 large avocado. Look for one that’s ripe and slightly gives when you press it.
- Tomato: You can see from my photos that I add a handful of chopped tomatoes to this pasta. They are pretty and add some extra texture.
- Green onion and garlic: I don’t go overboard with the onion and garlic. That’s why I stick with mild green onions and only a ¼ teaspoon of grated garlic (any more, and it will be too strong).
- Lemon juice: Loosens our sauce and adds fresh flavor. Lime works nicely, too.
Find the full recipe with measurements below.
How to Make Avocado Pasta
Tip 1: Mash the avocado until creamy. Cook your pasta in salted water according to the package directions. While the pasta cooks, make the avocado sauce. Use a fork to mash the avocado in a bowl until it’s smooth and creamy. A few small chunks are fine. The sauce will thin out once we add pasta water.
Tip 2: Use hot pasta water to make the sauce silky. Stir grated garlic, lemon juice, salt, and pepper into the mashed avocado. Then, add a splash of hot pasta water to loosen the mixture and create a creamy sauce. The starchy water helps the sauce cling beautifully to the pasta.
Tip 3: Toss everything together. Add your cooked pasta, green onions, and tomatoes to the bowl. Toss well until the pasta is evenly coated in the avocado sauce. If it seems too thick, stir in a bit more pasta water until it’s creamy and glossy. I do the same when making other simple pastas, like this mushroom pasta.
Serving Suggestions
I love serving this with some baked tofu or poached shrimp added to the top. You can also serve this easy pasta with salad on the side. Try this Greek salad, Caesar salad, or use one of our favorite homemade salad dressings. I especially love homemade ranch, honey mustard dressing, and this tahini dressing (dairy-free).
More Avocado Recipes
Easy Avocado Pasta
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This recipe is a quick, fresh, and super easy meal! You can make the flavorful, dairy-free avocado sauce while your pasta cooks. For the best texture, grate your garlic with a microplane. If you don’t have one, mince the garlic finely.
Watch Us Make the Recipe
You Will Need
8 ounces dry pasta
1 large ripe avocado
1 medium tomato, diced
1 green onion, finely sliced
¼ teaspoon finely grated garlic
Juice from a quarter of a lemon
Salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
Directions
1Cook pasta: Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Cook your pasta following the package instructions. Reserve ½ cup of hot pasta water before draining the pasta.
2Make sauce: While the pasta cooks, mash the avocado in a large bowl. Stir in garlic, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Add ¼ cup of the reserved pasta water to the avocado mixture and stir.
3To finish: Add the cooked pasta, tomatoes, and green onion to the bowl. Toss everything together until the sauce evenly coats the pasta. Add a little more pasta water to thin out the sauce if needed.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- Add pesto: Several readers have suggested transforming this into avocado pesto pasta – and we love the idea! Add a tablespoon of pesto to your avocado sauce, use lemon juice, and skip the garlic.
- Gluten-free: Choose your favorite gluten-free pasta or vegetable noodles like zucchini noodles or sweet potato noodles.
- Choosing avocados: Here’s our article with tips on buying perfect avocados.
- The nutrition facts provided below are estimates.
This was delicious! I used some leftover spaghetti and threw it all in a pan with mushroom, chives, and fresh tomato. I added the lemon juice and also some sundried tomato oil (leftover in the jar, so much flavour). Thanks for a great recipe!
I used this recipe to use some avocados that were going too ripe. and tomatoes from the garden, I NEVER would have considered PASTA SAUCE. But I googled recipes using Avocados and some other ingredients I had on hand I this came up. SO GLAD IT DID! Added some left over bacon from yesterday’s breakfast…finely chopped. I will add your recipe to my list. This was delicious and a nice change from the normal tomato or cream sauce recipes.
Very easy. We’ve made it twice, both times in 30 minutes. By the time you drain the pasta the avocado is squished, combined with lemon, and seasoned. It’s delicious. I know we’ll make it often.
This could not be eaiser ! So delicious, thanks ! Love all the add in suggestions – I plan to add feta and some chopped olives to my leftovers. Oh and I used penne – came out great! Thanks!!!
Wonderful! Love the planned additions 🙂
This was so easy and delicious!
Quick, easy and delicious. Used 1/2 of a lime and a ripe plum tomato. 5 stars.
This was great, and so quick and easy! I had cherry tomatoes on hand and used those, and it was yummy!
Hi Betsy, We are so happy that you tried it! Thanks for coming back and sharing.
Love simple, healthy recipes like this. We used chickpea pasta for protein and added green peas. Will definitely make this again!
This recipe is so quick and easy absolutely delicious.
So glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Very quick and easy which I love. I started eating the sauce with tortilla chips while I was waiting for the noodles to finish cooking, it’s basically a really creamy guacamole lol. Delicious nonetheless.
I made this tonight and added a can of diced tomatoes as I didn’t have fresh. I also cut up some turkey pepperoni for protein. It was so delicious. I’ll definitely make it again!
Great idea. Thanks for coming back to leave a kind review 🙂
Awesome, I am so excited about this recipe. I recently started eating avacoda and this recipe is by far one the best,simple,quick and tasty. My new go to meal. Thank you so much
This was fabulous! I folded in some torn up kale leaves, massaged with sea salt and lemon juice, and a handful of pistachios. Really delicious and a definite keeper.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing this recipe. ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT I made it for my little brother and I and he never eats veggies of any kind, but he likes this! It was so easy but I would recommend adding lots of lemon.
Thank you for sharing i can’t wait to try this looks so good
It was delicious!! I wasn’t sure if there would be enough texture in the dish, so I added a half pound of mushrooms, used 2 large tomatoes and sauteed it with some garlic and shallots. The dish came together quickly. Also used 2 avocadoes (we love them). What a hearty meal. Great idea using avocadoes as the sauce!
Just having your pasta w avocado sauce. For one. Yummy! Never heard of sweet potato pasta! Sounds good maybe with some bacon? Thanks!
sooo easy!! and tasty!! and healthy (especially with whole wheat past)
I looked at a few recipes and decided on this one. I used it as a base and added more stuff to our liking…the juice of 1/2 a lime, 4 avocados, peas, red pepper, and a can of Petit diced tomatoes. Big hit. It made enough for 5 adults. We all loved it! ♥️
I watched the avocado pasta video. I liked how simple the recipe was.
Avocado pasta delicious
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I have printed out several of your recipes. Looking forward to trying the homemade tahini recipe.
Loved it, who knew you could make a delicous, creamy tasting pasta sauce with avacado n a few ingredients. My new go to pasta sauce, yum
I just came upon this recipe while looking for ideas to use some extra avocado. A keeper! I added some finely chopped jalapeno. If I’d had fresh cilantro, I’d have included that, too. There will definitely be a “next time” to do that. Thanks for sharing the idea.
Just made this for lunch and it was delicious. The only thing I added was Locatelli Romano grating cheese.
I just found your site and I’m ready to try this recipe. It looks delicious!
I love this! There are so many variations I can think of to change it up! South of France Avocado Pasta: use shallots instead of onion, white wine instead of pasta water, add goat cheese, dill and whole grain mustard. Italian version, use red wine in place of pasta water, add fresh basil and oregano. Taiwan version substitute pineapple juice for the pasta water, minced ginger, and shredded coconut, and minced pineapple instead of the tomatoes. Asian version would be to julienne the green onion, green and red pepper, grated ginger, plum wine or soy sauce for the pasta water and thicken with corn starch (do this in a separate bowl first or in a small pan on the stove, add sugar snap peas in place of the tomatoes
This looks super yummy and I plan on making it soon!!
Thank you very much. Made it for the in laws and it was a big hit! Just want to say I added a kick of crushed red pepper and southwestern spice to add to the Mexican feel. I also added corn and shrimp. Truly a great meal.
I made some changes to the original recipe. Two Acocados instead of one. I also added a small jar of artichoke hearts to the dish for more flavor. Also added basil like the lady in the video suggested. If I had to do it again, I would use sun-dried tomatoes instead of fresh. I love the idea of avocado sauce to pasta though, and will probably make this again. Also, it took more than 15 ‘min. But well done!
Does this end up as a hot or cold meal? Looks a good way to use up yesterday’s excessive guacamole!
Hi Elizabeth, you can serve it either way. I prefer it hot.
I just made your quick easy quacamole and my husband who swears he hates avocado can’t stop eating it. My Hispanic great neighbor brought me the biggest avocado I have ever seen. Thanks, everyone should try it.
going to make it for my husbands healthy lunch.
Loved it!