Creamy and light avocado Caprese pasta
Extra creamy pasta dish with avocado, fresh mozzarella, basil, and cherry tomatoes cooked very briefly with pasta.
Ingredients
- 5 oz pasta
- 12 oz cherry tomato
- 7 clove garlic
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 cup basil
- 1 piece avocado
- 4 oz fresh mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 tsp salt Plus another teaspoonful to boil pasta
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup snow peas
Instructions
- Cherry tomatoes and basil - About two hours or so before you start cooking pasta, wash both cherry tomatoes and basil leaves and dry well. Half tomatoes and put them in a medium sized bowl. Mix in basil, salt, red pepper flakes, pressed garlic, olive oil and stir well. Let them sit.
- Pasta - about 15 minutes before you are ready to eat, start boiling water and cook pasta al dente.
- While you are waiting for the pasta, cut fresh mozzarella cheese in small cubes.
- Shortly before you drain the pasta, cube avocado.
- Right before you drain the pasta, if you are using greens like peas or asparagus, throw them in the pot and drain together.
- After you drain the pasta (and peas, etc.), put them back in the pot over a medium high heat, throw in the tomato/basil mix, mozzarella cheese, avocado, and stir quickly for 30 seconds or so.
- Enjoy while it's hot and creamy.
Nutrition
Calories: 782kcalCarbohydrates: 76gProtein: 28gFat: 43gSaturated Fat: 12gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 24gCholesterol: 45mgSodium: 987mgPotassium: 1241mgFiber: 12gSugar: 9gVitamin A: 3192IUVitamin C: 71mgCalcium: 408mgIron: 5mg
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