Quick Easy Avocado Pasta
- PREP 5min
- COOK 10min
- TOTAL 15min
Avocado pasta 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
1/4 teaspoon finely grated garlic
Juice from a quarter of a lemon
Salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste
Directions
Bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Cook your pasta following the package instructions. Reserve 1/2 cup of hot pasta water before draining the pasta.
While the pasta cooks, mash the avocado in a large bowl. Stir in garlic, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
Add 1/4 cup of the reserved pasta water to the avocado mixture and stir.
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.
- Nutrition Facts: The nutrition facts provided below are estimates.