Healthy Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce

Healthy Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce

This Healthy Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce is vegan, no-cook, and gluten-free!

Unlike most pesto sauces, this basil avocado pesto pasta sauce has no oil… yep, no oil!

Healthy Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce

There’s enough healthy fats in this avocado sauce recipe with the avocado, so we found a way to cut the oil, and saved you 100’s of calories in doing so.

Now you can make vegan pasta with avocado sauce for 1/2 the calories and all of the flavor.

This Low Calorie Pasta Sauce is vegan, no-cook, and gluten-free!

Healthy Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce

This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make avocado pasta pesto recipes.

From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. We’ve even found you a protein pasta (yep- it’s packed with protein), supplied you with a nutrition label, and more!

To make this low calorie avocado pasta recipe easy, we’ve supplied you with the following sections.

Read through them for helpful resources, or skip ahead to the recipe card.

What You’ll Find in this Article:

  • Ingredients for Homemade Avocado Sauce for Pasta (shopping list!)
  • How to Make Avocado Pesto Sauce
  • Healthy Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce (recipe card!)
  • Nutrition and Calories in Basil Avocado Pesto Pasta Sauce

Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.

Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in my email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin these avocado pasta recipes to Pinterest so it is safely stored for you.

Up next, a shopping list for our low calorie recipe for avocado sauce…

Ingredients for Homemade Avocado Sauce for Pasta

You can use any nut you prefer to make pasta with avocado pesto (walnuts, pine nuts, almonds)… you can also use seeds (like hemp seeds) to make this yummy pasta sauce.

That’s what makes these avocado sauce recipes so great… you can modify them to suit your dietary needs. Well, that and because it’s so yummy!

Healthy Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce

Shopping List for Low Calorie Avocado Pesto Recipe:

Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this low calorie avocado pasta pesto sauce you want to make. It will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for our healthy avocado pesto recipes can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.

Up next, how to make pesto avocado sauce without oil…

How to Make Avocado Pesto Sauce

You can use a high speed blender or a food processor to make this avocado pasta sauce recipe. Though we find the food processor works the best.

And of course you can go old-school and use a Mortar and Pestle… If you decide to go that route, squish and press the basil, then the garlic, then the nuts, and finally the rest of the ingredients.

How to Make Basil Avocado Pesto Pasta Sauce:

  1. Add the basil leaves, avocados, hemp seeds (or pine nuts/walnuts), lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper to a food processor or high speed blender.
  2. Pulse adding water 1 tablespoon at a time until minced into a thick paste.
  3. Taste and season with more salt and pepper as needed. Then add to your favorite cooked pasta and toss well.

Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!

Up next, a sharable recipe card for the best creamy avocado sauce for pasta…

Healthy Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce

This healthy avocado pasta sauce is a no-cook recipe! Plus it’s a great vegan and gluten-free sauce.

We cut out all of the oil, saving you 100’s of calories and loads of fat. There’s already enough healthy fats in the recipe thanks to the avocado!

Healthy Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce

LOW CALORIE Basil Avocado Pesto Pasta Sauce

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This (VEGAN) no-cook basil avocado pesto pasta sauce is so easy to make, and packed with nutrition!
At just 152 calories per 1/4 cup, this pesto avocado pasta sauce recipe is a great gluten-free, vegan, and no-cook pasta sauce recipe!
Special Tip: Use chickpea pasta (below!) to boost protein and keep the calories of the entire dish low. One portion of chickpea pasta plus 1/4 cup of this pasta sauce is just 342 calories!
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Course sauce
Cuisine American, Italian
Servings 6 servings
Calories 152 kcal

Equipment

  • food processor or blender

Ingredients
  

Instructions
 

  • Add the basil leaves, avocados, hemp seeds (or pine nuts/walnuts), lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper to a food processor or high speed blender.
  • Pulse adding water 1 tablespoon at a time until minced into a thick paste.
  • Taste and season with more salt and pepper as needed. Then add to your favorite cooked pasta and toss well.

Notes

Nutrition

Calories: 152kcalCarbohydrates: 6.9gProtein: 2gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 2.9gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 200mgPotassium: 373mgFiber: 4.9gSugar: 0.5gCalcium: 33mgIron: 1mg
Keyword avocado, pesto
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Nutrition and Calories in Basil Avocado Pesto Pasta Sauce

This nutrition is based off 1/4 cup of pesto sauce… just enough for one serving.

As we noted above, we love to make this pasta sauce to go over chickpea protein pasta. It’s a great way to enjoy a yummy, low calorie dinner!

Pesto Avocado Pasta Sauce

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