Avocado pasta is a quick, easy, and delicious dairy-free meal! With just a fork and 15 minutes, you can whip up our creamy avocado sauce – no food processor needed.
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The creamy sauce in this avocado pasta is surprisingly simple – just avocado! No butter or cream is needed. I love how easy it is. It takes less than 15 minutes to make, perfect for busy weeknights.
We love this recipe so much! We’ve even tried it with sweet potato noodles. For more delicious ways to use avocados, check out our collection of avocado recipes.
What You’ll Need for Avocado Pasta
- Pasta: Use your favorite type!
- Tomato: Adds color and freshness.
- Green onion and garlic: For flavor.
- Ripe avocado: The star of the dish!
- Lemon or lime juice: Adds brightness.
- Salt and pepper: Essential for seasoning.
How to Make Avocado Pasta
What I love about this recipe is that we can make the creamy avocado sauce while our pasta cooks. This recipe goes FAST.
Cook your pasta. Use well-salted water and follow your pasta’s package directions. While it cooks, you’ll prep the sauce.
Mash the avocado. Use a fork to mash a ripe avocado in a bowl until creamy. (You can use a food processor for extra smoothness.) Check out our tips for picking the perfect avocado.
Add flavor. Stir in grated garlic (a microplane is best), lemon or lime juice, salt, and pepper. Some of our readers were skeptical, calling this guacamole pasta, but everyone returned to tell us they LOVED it.
Create the sauce. Add a splash of hot pasta water to thin the avocado mixture to your desired consistency. This starchy water thins our sauce nicely and helps it stick to the pasta.
Toss in the pasta, green onion, and tomatoes. Give everything a really good toss in the avocado sauce, adding a little more pasta water if necessary.
That’s it! Your very own bowl of creamy avocado pasta.
How Long Does it Last in the Fridge?
Avocado pasta is best enjoyed fresh, as the avocado sauce will start to brown over time.
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Easy Avocado Pasta
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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. Need help choosing the perfect avocado? Check out our tips!
Makes 4 servings
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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
1Bring 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.
2While the pasta cooks, mash the avocado in a large bowl. Stir in garlic, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
3Add 1/4 cup of the reserved pasta water to the avocado mixture and stir.
4Add 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.
- Nutrition Facts: The nutrition facts provided below are estimates.
Nutrition Per Serving
Serving Size
About 1 cup, 1/4 of the recipe
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Calories
295
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Total Fat
7.7g
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Saturated Fat
1.5g
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Cholesterol
5.1mg
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Sodium
593.4mg
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Carbohydrate
47.4g
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Dietary Fiber
4.6g
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Total Sugars
2.7g
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Protein
9.6g
