Zucchini pasta with avocado pesto. This spiralized zucchini pasta is tossed in creamy basil and avocado pesto to make a deliciously low carb and gluten-free dinner! Zucchini is soft enough to cut into perfect spirals, and its neutral flavor makes it great as a pasta substitute! And when topped with creamy avocado pesto…perfection.
We love getting creative with meal prep, so this week we decided to put a twist on the traditional pesto pasta dish.
We whipped up a Zucchini Pesto Pasta.
Zucchini Pasta Shrimp with creamy avocado pesto sauce.
You can have Zucchini pasta with avocado pesto using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Zucchini pasta with avocado pesto
- Prepare 1 of zucchini.
- You need 3 tbsp of olive oil.
- You need 1 of ripe avocado.
- You need Handful of fresh basil leaves.
- You need 15 pieces of fresh oregano leaves.
- It's 60 g of pine nuts.
- You need 3 tbsp of fresh lemon juice.
- It's to taste of Salt.
- Prepare to taste of Black pepper.
- It's 100 g of parmesan cheese for topping.
This zoodles-with-avocado-pesto recipe is quick and perfect for summer. Zucchini noodles with shrimp can be made vegan, with shrimp, or with chicken. This zucchini noodle pasta is made with spiralized zucchini noodles instead of regular carb loaded pasta. Mix pesto with zucchini pasta and top over thin strips of purple cabbage.
Zucchini pasta with avocado pesto step by step
- With a veggie peeler slice the zucchini diagonally into thin slices. Then cut them diagonally again into spaghetti size strips. Of course if you have veggie spiralizer you are free to use it instead.
- Put a little olive oil in a pan and fry the zucchini with a pinch of salt until cooked. Keep it warm..
- Make the avocado pesto: put the peeled avocado and olive oil,pine nuts, the fresh herbs,lemon juice and salt and pepper into a food mixer and mix it to a smooth paste..
- Serve the zucchini spaghetti with the avocado pesto and top it with the parmesan. Let me know if you re-created this recipe :D.
Finally top with tomatoes, minced chives and season. in Main Dish, Sides & Snacks. These avocado pesto zucchini noodles are the perfect way to lighten up a classic dish. Packed with flavor + nutrition you'll never miss the actual pasta! You might recognize this particular dish from my latest What I Eat in a Day video; they're the avocado pesto zucchini noodles that you guys have all. This clean eating shrimp zucchini pasta with avocado pesto alfredo is delicious and low carb!