easy creamy pasta recipe with vegan spinach sauce
Iron rich easy pasta for bento boxes which makes every kid happy. Learn to make this vegan spinach pasta recipe here.
Servings: 2
Equipment
- 2 saucepan
- Sieve
- Blender
Ingredients
- 200 gm Pasta I have used Penne pasta.
- 3-4 cups water to cook pasta
- 1 green capsicum mild sweet green capsicum
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 large Onion diced
- 3 garlic cloves chopped
- 100 gms baby spinach or normal spinach in place of baby spinach
- 150 ml Coconut milk Used a full small can
- 1 tbsp. vegan soup stock optional
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- Salt as per taste
Instructions
- In a sauce pan, boil water and add pasta to it. Cook al dente or as per packet instructions.
- Strain it using a sieve and keep it aside.
- Grill 1 large capsicum on stove or in an air fryer/ oven until you get blistered skin. Keep it aside to cool, once cook,peel the skin and remove the seeds
- Heat oil in a pan and add onions and garlic to it. Cook for 5 mins.
- Add spinach to it and cook for 2-3 mins until they wilt.
- Turn off the heat, add coconut milk to it.
- Once it has cooled down, blend the greens mix with the peeled/grilled capsicum and strain it.
- Heat the creamy spinach sauce and add stock powder to it with lemon juice. Allow it come to boil on slow flame
- Add cooked pasta to it and mix slowly.Turn off the heat after few minutes.
Notes
You can use any pasta. However do not overcook it as it will break while cooking with green sauce.
I generally, cook them for 1 less minute that what is mentioned on the pack.