Avocado Pesto Pasta with Smoked Salmon!

A lovely tasty dinner!

Yesterday evening, I made this easy to make, fresh, delicious avocado pesto pasta with smoked salmon! This avocado pesto is very refreshing & light, really Spring-like, my husband told me! :)

The avocado pesto itself is Vegan & Gluten-free! I know that you all will love this too!

To make it completely Gluten-Free , use GF pasta.

To make this meal completely Vegan, leave out the smoked salmon, use tofu or seitan! :)

A fresh avocado pesto with spelt farfalle & smoked salmon!

Recipe: For 3 persons

Ingredients:

1 ripe avocado, avocado cut into 2, big stone removed with a knife, avocado flesh scooped out with a large spoon

3 fat cloves of garlic, roughly cut up

1 cup of fresh cleaned basil leaves, pushed into the cup

4 tablespoons of a fruity evoo

zest of 1/2 organic unwaxed lemon

juice of the same 1/2 lemon

1/2 teaspoon of Maldon sea salt

20 grins of finely milled black pepper

330 gr of white spelt farfalle

150 gr of good smoked salmon, thinly sliced

1/4 cup of toasted pine nuts / How to toast your pine nuts? Take a fitting non-stick pan & heat up on low. Place your pine nuts in here, in 1 layer in it. After a few minutes, the nuts begin to get brownish in color & will get fragrant. Turn the heat onto lower but don’t let the nuts burn,…Turn them over & they must be brownish on both sides! Turn the heat off. Now, you have toasted pine nuts!

Method:

1. Cook your spelt farfalle according to your packet instructions. Drain well. Keep warm. In the meantime, make your avocado pesto! Take a food processor & add cut up garlic, basil leaves, olive oil, avocado flesh, zest & juice of 1/2 lemon, sea salt & black pepper. Pulse or mix on speed 1 again & again or until fully joined, like this picture:

The lovely avocado pesto!

Taste! You must taste the basil, lemon, garlic & in the end the avocado. It must taste awesome! :)

2. Cut your smoked salmon pieces into smaller pieces, like picture above, about 50 gr per person, per plate.

3. Plate up! Divide the spelt farfalle over 3 pasta plates. Add to each pasta plate, a dollop of 2-3 on top of the pasta. Arrange your smoked salmon pieces besides the pasta dish, like picture above & place a cooked spelt farfalle in the middle, on top of the avocado pesto! Enjoy instantly with loves one’s! :) Avocado power, yeah! xxx

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