Hello lovelies,
Over the past few weeks, I’ve decided to put avocado in everything because avocados are awesome. Not an opinion; it’s a fact.
I also came across some weird recipes that included avocado and my favorite so far is an avocado sauce for pasta. I found a couple recipes and they were all too complicated so I decided to tweak the ones I tried and to make one of my own.
Now recipes are difficult because everyone has different tastes in what they want in food, so I’m going to provide modifications based on how I prepared them.
*Reminder, avocados go bad easily, so this recipe is best prepared fresh. Make what you want to eat but if you don’t mind the avocado sauce turning a bit brown, as avocados do, then by all means make enough for leftovers.
But wait, how do I know if an avocado is ready to be eaten?
Well, on every avocado, there is a little stem on its butt. If you take the stem off and it’s anywhere from green to an ugly yellow, then you’re fine to make this sauce. If it’s a dark dark yellow to black, it’s obviously no good.
Ingredients you need for all modifications are:
Cooked pasta
Avocados
Limes or lime juice (I prefer lime juice)
Salt
Pepper
Olive oil
That’s it. You don’t need much for this, even the salt and pepper are optional but it does make it taste better. Yes the olive oil is necessary, unless you just want mashed avocados on pasta.
I had difficulties with using a blender for this because I wasn’t going to use enough avocados to make the blending happen so I just used a hand blender, a bullet blender is also helpful, if you don’t have any of these you can always just hand mash them and mix in the ingredients. Don’t actually use your hands, unless you want to, but I was leaning more towards a fork or something for the whole mashing thing.
So this general rule I came up with is for every half pound of pasta use one whole avocado if you like a regular sauce.
If you like your sauce a little creamier then use two avocados per half pound of pasta.
If you like less cream and more slight avocado taste half an avocado per half pound.
I usually make a regular sauce so this recipe will be for the avocado per half pound
So 1 avocado
I usually will eyeball about ¼ cup oil
2 tablespoons of lime juice
Salt and pepper about a pinch per avocado
For the creamier sauce
2 avocados
⅓ cup oil
3-4 tablespoons of lime juice depending on how acidic you want it
2 pinches of salt and pepper
For the non creamy sauce
Half an avocado
3 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon lime juice
A combined pinch of salt and pepper
If these don’t suit you, again tweak to taste
If you really want to go bananas add some garlic powder or cilantro
Or some bananas
Just kidding that’s gross.
Anyway, enjoy your avocado pasta
Stay classy. Or not. Your choice.