Spring weather has finally arrived and planting my garden has been on the list for a few weeks. I don’t know much about gardening, but I can sure grow some great zucchini (although I think anyone can grow zucchini because I’ve heard it is one of the easiest veggies to grow!) Despite not having a green thumb, my family usually has a pretty little garden growing by summertime. This dish is one I can’t wait to make with those fresh veggies from the garden!
Avocado Cream Sauce
An avocado cream sauce might sound decadent to you, but I love to use different ingredients to achieve the effect of rich, heavy cream and cheeses. I used Greek Yogurt in these Mini Greek Yogurt Cheesecakes and I’m using AE Cottage Cheese in this Avocado Cream Sauce!
This AE Cottage Cheese with Sea Salt has become one of my favorite products of this local, family-owned company. Each serving of cottage cheese has at least 12 grams of protein, making this creamy sauce the perfect combination of healthy fats from the avocado and protein from the cottage cheese.
I was able to see the love and care AE Dairy puts into their products and their cottage cheese is made in small batches that take 10 hours from start to finish to create the perfect texture and creaminess.
This Creamy (but Light!) Avocado Pasta with Veggies is a summertime dish I am excited to eat with my fresh garden vegetables. This recipe would be the perfect side dish to a grilled chicken breast or even a light lunch you could take to work.
Have you planted your garden yet?
- 1 16 oz. pkg angel hair pasta
- 2 medium
zuchinni - 1½ cup cherry tomatoes
- 3 cloves of garlic
- ¼ cup shallots
- 1 large avocado
- Juice of 1 large lemon
- 1 cup AE Cottage Cheese with Sea Salt
- ¾ cup AE white milk (skim, 2% or whole milk)
- 8 basil leaves
- ½ tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 Tbls Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- Place the avocado, lemon juice, cottage cheese, milk, basil leaves, red pepper flakes, pepper and salt in a food processor or blender and pulse until smooth.
- Mince the garlic, shallot, and slice the zucchini.
- Heat the olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the garlic, shallot, cherry tomatoes and zucchini. Saute for about 5 minutes or until tomatoes have burst and zucchini is slightly soft.
- Meanwhile, boil water and cook pasta according to package directions.
- When the pasta is done, add it to the pan of veggies. Top with the avocado cream sauce and heat through.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of AE Dairy. The opinions and text are all mine.
Yummy! This looks and sounds so good. Love it!
Wow! This looks so good ;) Love that it’s creamy but light – so perfect for summer!
i love pasta with avocado sauce. this looks delish!
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Kali
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Wow what a great idea for a sauce! I haven’t tried an avocado sauce before but it looks amazing! And so easy made in a blender. Thanks for the awesome recipe!
This looks delicious! I love that you lightened it up by using an avocado cream sauce. Those roasted veggies are also one of my favourite things to add to pasta. Thanks for sharing!
This is a great idea! I never realized you could use avocados as a base for a sauce. I love anything with avocados so it’s definitely worth trying out. Also, I love the yellow pan!
Gennifer
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I love pasta in any form, this recipe use fresh seasonal vegetables, and this is lovely. If i replace the angel hair on tagliatelle, nothing bad will happen after all :)
Oh my gosh, this looks delicious! With so many veggies I don’t even have to feel guilty about all the pasta!
This looks delicious! Thanks for the amazing recipe ☺
anything that has avocado on it is absolutely delicious!
Great recipe! This GA heat is flooring me. I hardly want to eat let alone anything heavy. This is the perfect amount of carbs and goodness ;)
I never would have thought to put cottage cheese into a dish like this. My go-to way to lighten something up is with Greek Yogurt. This seems like a new and exciting way to try it. And avocado! You can’t go wrong with that at all!
Okay, now I know what I’m making for dinner!
Oh my goodness this looks incredible. Avocado is literally one of my favorite foods ever. Trying this this week! Thanks a bunch!
I can’t wait to add this to our dinner rotation! Delicious
This really appeals to a veggie lover like myself. Dinner’s planned! :-)
Loved it
ohmygoodness yum! Definitely going to be saving this recipe for later on this week.