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Yesterday evening, I made this easy to make, fresh, delicious avocado pesto pasta with smoked salmon! This avocado pesto is very refreshing & light, really Spring-like, my husband told me! :)
The avocado pesto itself is Vegan & Gluten-free! I know that you all will love this too!
To make it completely Gluten-Free , use GF pasta.
To make this meal completely Vegan, leave out the smoked salmon, use tofu or seitan! —Sophies Foodie
Ingredients
- To make the avocado pesto:
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1
ripe avocado, big stone cut out, flesh spooned out
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3
fat cloves of garlic, peeled & roughly chopped
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1 cup
fresh basil leaves, leaves torn
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4 tablespoons
fruity extra virgin olive oil
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zest
of 1/2 organic unwaxed lemon
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juice
of the same lemon halve
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1/2 teaspoon
Maldon sea salt
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20
grins of finely milled black pepper
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1/4 cup
toasted pine nuts: Take a fitting non-stick pan & heat up on low. Place your pine nuts in here, in 1 layer in it. After a few minutes, the nuts begin to get brownish in colour & will get fragrant. Turn the heat onto lower but don’t let the nuts burn,…Turn
- For the rest:
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300 grams
organic white spelt penne
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150-250 grams
smoked salmon pieces
Directions
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Cook your spelt farfalle according to your packet instructions. Drain well. Keep warm. In the meantime, make your avocado pesto! Take a food processor & add cut up garlic, basil leaves, olive oil, avocado flesh, zest & juice of 1/2 lemon, sea salt & black pepper. Pulse or mix on speed 1 again & again or until fully joined. Taste! You must taste the basil, lemon, garlic & in the end the avocado. It must taste awesome!
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Cut your smoked salmon pieces into smaller pieces, like picture above, about 50-100 gr per person, per plate.
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Plate up! Divide the spelt farfalle over 3 pasta plates. Add to each pasta plate, a dollop of 2-3 on top of the pasta. Arrange your smoked salmon pieces besides the pasta dish, like picture above & place a cooked spelt farfalle in the middle, on top of the avocado pesto! Enjoy instantly with loves one’s! :) Avocado power, yeah! xxx
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