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Chickpea Spinach Pasta With Creamy Avocado Dressing

Whether you are vegetarian or not everyone will love this Chickpea Spinach Pasta With Creamy Avocado Dressing Recipe!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups gluten free pasta
  • 2 avocados
  • 6-8 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tomatoes, diced
  • 1 small onion, diced
  • 1 red pepper, diced
  • 1 yellow pepper, diced
  • 4 cups spinach
  • 1 can(398 ml) chickpeas rinsed and drained
  • 1/3 cup fresh basil, chopped
  • 1/3 cup fresh parsley, chopped
  • sea salt

Directions

  1. In a large frying pan saute onions and peppers in 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Once done add chickpeas in at the end to warm them up
  2. In a blender mix avocados, sea salt, basil, parsley and olive oil. I pour the olive oil in slowly to see how much I may need to make dressing creamy
  3. Cook pasta according to directions, rinse and drain
  4. Boil spinach for a few minutes
  5. In a large bowl mix pasta, onion mixture, spinach and avocado dressing
  6. Top with chopped tomatoes

6 responses to “Chickpea Spinach Pasta With Creamy Avocado Dressing

  1. Hello Shirley, I am DF, GF and SF and not by choice 🙂 Can u advise sugar replacement please.Thanking VK…

  2. Hi Vicki there is no sugar in this recipe- but in general replacing sugar it depends on the recipe, can you let me know what type of recipe you mean?

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Shirley Plant

About Shirley

I'm Shirley Plant, nutritionist and cookbook author. My passion is helping you figure out which foods fuel your body and which ones deplete it.

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Appearances By Shirley

  • CTV News
  • Rogers TV
  • FoodNetwork.ca
  • The Eat Real Food Health Summit
  • Menopause Wellness Summit
  • The Parenting TeleSummit

Shirley's Cookbooks

Finally... Food I Can Eat!

Finally... Food I Can Eat!

A dietary guide and cookbook featuring tasty non vegetarian and vegetarian recipes for people with food allergies and intolerances. Recipes free of gluten, dairy, eggs, corn, wheat, nightshades, sugar and yeast.

Finally... Paleo Food I Can Eat!

Finally... Paleo Food I Can Eat!

Paleo recipes for breakfast, lunch, snacks, dinner, and dessert. Recipes free of grains, legumes, dairy, refined sugar, eggs and almonds. Plus, chapters on the mind body connection by Dr. Eva Selhub M.D and healing your body from chronic illness with Dr. Terry Wahls. M.D.

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