| CREAMY BEAN PASTA |
Creamy, dreamy, dairy free pasta sauce made from white beans. This sauce is loaded with flavour and adds so much added fibre to keep you full for hours! Nutritional yeast adds B vitamins, lemon juice increases the iron absorption from the legume pasta, and fresh garlic adds a big immunity boost! This is the way to pasta.
Recipe makes 3 servings
Macros per serving:
467 cals - 7g fat - 70g carbs - 31g protein
Ingredients:
1 cup cannellini beans (white beans)
1/4 cup nutritional yeast
2 tbsp hemp hearts
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup almond milk or preferred dairy free milk
227g chickapea pasta or preferred legume pasta
1/2 cup flat leaf parsley, chopped, optional*
Recipe:
Bring 8 cups water a boil and salt the water.
Once water is boiling add the pasta and cook al dente. This will depend on your pasta but roughly 6-8 minutes.
While the pasta is cooking make the sauce:
To a high speed blender add: beans, nutritional yeast, hemp hearts, lemon juice, garlic, salt, and almond milk. Blend until smooth. Set aside.
Drain pasta, making sure to reserve 1/3 cup pasta boiling liquids.
Add the pasta, 1/3 cup pasta boiling liquids, and prepared sauce back to the pasta pot.
Turn heat to medium low and allow to cook on a low simmer until sauce is thick and noodles are tender, 3-4 minutes.
Top with fresh chopped parsley and black pepper.
Enjoy!
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