Description
Super Creamy High Protein Spinach Pasta is packed with protein! We’re talking about a sauce that’ll give Popeye a run for his money. It’s like the Super Creamy High Protein Spinach Pasta decided to flex its muscles and show off its high-protein prowess. This is a powerhouse pasta! Packed with nutritious spinach, hemp seeds, silken tofu and nutritional yeast, this is the naturally vibrant, super creamy, good-for-you pasta you’ve been craving!
Ingredients
- 320g (11.3oz) gluten-free pasta
- salt + pepper
- 250g (8.8oz) baby spinach
- 350g (12.3oz) silken tofu
- 4 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 40g (1.4oz) cashews, see notes
- 60g (2.1oz) hemp seeds, shelled or milled
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- vegan parmesan, to serve (optional)
Instructions
- Cook the pasta in a pot of salted boiling water as per the packet instructions. Once the pasta is ready, drain it and reserve about half a cup of the pasta water for later.
- Meanwhile, add the spinach to a pan on a medium heat and cook for 2-3 minutes or until wilted. Add a tablespoon of pasta water to the spinach if it’s sticking to the pan.
- Next, transfer the spinach to a high speed blender along with the silken tofu, nutritional yeast, cashews, hemp seeds, garlic, 2 tablespoons of olive oil and generous pinches of salt and pepper. Blend until the sauce is smooth, adding a tablespoon or so of the reserved pasta water to the sauce, if needed, to loosen it up.
- Pour the spinach sauce into the pan you used earlier and heat it on a low temperature until warm. Tip the pasta into the sauce and stir to combine.
- Serve the pasta with a drizzle of olive oil, an extra pinch of pepper and some grated vegan parmesan, if you like.
Equipment
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Bob’s Red Mill Large Flake Nutritional Yeast
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Swiss Diamond Cast-Aluminum Nonstick 14-Inch 6-2/7-Quart Wok with Lid
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If you can’t find gluten free rigatoni you can use rotini or your favorite other pasta.
Because it doesn’t like me, I don’t use fresh garlic when cooking. If you’re like me, feel free to leave out the garlic and substitute garlic oil instead of the olive oil. If you don’t have garlic oil, just leave out the garlic although the substitution adds a lot of flavor.
Here is a link to the original recipe on So Vegan: High Protein Spinach Pasta.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 508
- Sugar: 3.4 g
- Sodium: 645.8 mg
- Fat: 15.3 g
- Saturated Fat: 2 g
- Carbohydrates: 69.3 g
- Fiber: 5.9 g
- Protein: 25.1 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
