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Avocado pesto pasta with smoked salmon

September  4, 2015
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Photo by Sophie33
  • Serves 3
Author Notes

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

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Ingredients
  • To make the avocado pesto:
  • 1 ripe avocado, big stone cut out, flesh spooned out
  • 3 fat cloves of garlic, peeled & roughly chopped
  • 1 cup fresh basil leaves, leaves torn
  • 4 tablespoons fruity extra virgin olive oil
  • zest of 1/2 organic unwaxed lemon
  • juice of the same lemon halve
  • 1/2 teaspoon Maldon sea salt
  • 20 grins of finely milled black pepper
  • 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:
  • 300 grams organic white spelt penne
  • 150-250 grams smoked salmon pieces
Directions
  1. 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!
  2. Cut your smoked salmon pieces into smaller pieces, like picture above, about 50-100 gr per person, per plate.
  3. 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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