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Yum Alert: Creamy Avocado Pasta

Written by emilyc

It is pretty much a fact that just about everything is better with avocado, so when you add it to something as intrinsically good as pasta, you can only imagine the magical outcome. This dish is creamy, but contains zero cream. The avocados do all the work, while adding 20 different vitamins and minerals! Recipe and image via blissfulbblog.com.

Ingredients:

1 medium ripe avocado, pitted

½ lime

2 garlic cloves

¼ jalapeno

¼ cup packed basil

1 cup spinach

1 teaspoon kosher salt

2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

¼ cup freshly grated parmesan

1 pound whole wheat spaghetti

1 cup spinach

basil leaves to garnish

For complete preparation directions, click here.

About the author

emilyc

Emily is a New Yorker trapped in a Floridian's body and loves every minute of her big city life. With a major in international business and years of being surrounded by ill-fitting suits and all the wrong shoes, she learned that the importance of fashion needs to be communicated to the world. To her, fashion is on the same level as charity work and feeding hungry children. Emily can be found frolicking the streets of her gayborhood enjoying the off-color humor of the gays.