Easy Avocado Pasta
- PREP 5min
- COOK 10min
- TOTAL 15min
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.
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.