Quick Green Pasta Sauce

green pasta sauce with wooden spoon dipped in

5 minutes to make this quick healthy green pasta sauce that is made with blended spinach, cashews, aromatic garlic and delicious olive oil. It is a perfect easy healthy pasta sauce recipe that can replace your store bought pesto as it has even more added vitamins and minerals due to the spinach.

Course Sauce

Cuisine Italian-inspired

Diet Vegetarian

Fridge Life? 3 days

Freezable? 3 months

Prep Time 3

Cook Time 5

Total Time 8

Servings as a main course

Calories 217kcal

Author Dora

Equipment

Food Processor

Ingredients

6 oz spinach
16 larger basil leaves
2 oz cashews
4 tbsp lemon juice
2 small garlic cloves
4 tbsp olive oil
⅔ tsp salt
½ tsp black pepper
1 cup pasta water

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Place the spinach, nuts and garlic in a blender or food processor and blend until you have smaller bits.
Add the rest of the ingredients in the blender and blend until you reach a desired consistency. I prefer with tiny chunks but you can also go for a smooth sauce.
Cook your pasta according to the package instructions in a large pot of water. Once you drain the pasta save 1 cup of the water.
In a large pan place the pesto, 1 cup of pasta water and bring it to a medium heat. Once heated remove from the stove and mix in the cooked pasta.
You will have delicious fresh green sauce with a vibrant green color that you can enjoy

Notes

almonds, walnuts or pine nuts can be used instead of cashew nuts
you can add 6 oz (60g) of grated parmesan cheese to the below recipe when blending
if you want to keep the spinach sauce vegan but want a bit more of a cheesy flavor use about 1 oz (30g) of nutritional yeast in the recipe when blending

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