Zucchini pasta with avocado pesto. The avocado pesto is super flavorful. Love that zucchini serves as the "pasta". I did make a couple of changes added garlic to the pesto & I also added homegrown brocolini along with the zucchini noodles and replaced the shrimp with chicken - my partner couldn t believe that the noodles weren t.
Flatten chicken breast with a meat hammer.
Season on both sides with paprika, salt, and black pepper.
We love getting creative with meal prep, so this week we decided to put a twist on the traditional pesto pasta dish.
You can have Zucchini pasta with avocado pesto using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Zucchini pasta with avocado pesto
- You need 1 of zucchini.
- It's 3 tbsp of olive oil.
- It's 1 of ripe avocado.
- Prepare Handful of fresh basil leaves.
- You need 15 pieces of fresh oregano leaves.
- Prepare 60 g of pine nuts.
- You need 3 tbsp of fresh lemon juice.
- Prepare to taste of Salt.
- It's to taste of Black pepper.
- Prepare 100 g of parmesan cheese for topping.
We whipped up a Zucchini Pesto Pasta..with Pistachio Avocado Pesto recipe: This creamy, colorful dish is quick to make and full of skin-beautifying antioxidants like vitamin C from zucchini Add sea salt to taste. Mix pesto with zucchini pasta and top over thin strips of purple cabbage. Finally top with tomatoes, minced chives and season. It makes great low carb noodles.
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.
This zucchini pasta with avocado pesto is delicious and low carb! You could top this with your favorite protein to make it complete. Another quick meal on my blog is my Pesto Portobellos. You can learn how to use the spiralizer by watching this short video. Zucchini Pasta Shrimp with creamy avocado pesto sauce.