Whole Wheat Pasta & Pesto

This delicious start of the week with this whole wheat pasta & avocado pesto dish is so easy to make and so nutritious it will keep you going throughout the day. Eaten hot or cold, the whole wheat Penne Rigate pasta is full of fibre, combined with nuts for protein, avocado & olive oil for essential fats, fresh basil for its anti-inflammatory properties and superfood nutritional yeast makes this an extremely healthy balanced meal.

For a tomato based pasta check out my Italian pasta dish.

Blend these healthy ingredients to make this creamy pesto sauce & mix it with the pre-cooked pasta:
✅Handful of fresh basil
✅2 ripe avocados
✅2 garlic cloves
✅ 25 g of pine nuts
✅25 go of raw almond nuts
✅75 mil of virgen olive oil from Cal Valls
✅25 mil of vegetable milk 
✅Salt & fresh parsley
✅2 tbsp of nutritional yeast

1. Pre-cook the pasta and wash through the pasta with clean water and let it cool while you prepare the avocado pesto.

2. Blend the above ingredients to make a creamy pesto sauce. It is so easy, just add all the above ingredients into a food blender and blend.

3. Keep on adding small amounts of vegetable milk until you obtain your desired texture.

4. Stir in your fresh creamy pesto to the pre-cooked pasta and serve hot or cold.

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Whole Wheat Pasta & Avocado Pesto

Whole wheat pasta

The main difference between whole-wheat pasta and white pasta lies in the processing, Whole wheat pasta is made from whole wheat flour where the bran remains and germ in addition to the endosperm of the wheat.

This pasta is much higher in fibre and contains far more nutrients than white pasta and it has a markedly different texture and flavour.

Wholemeal or whole wheat?

Wholemeal and whole wheat pasta often refer to the same product, but they are somewhat slightly different. Whole wheat pasta is often made with wheat flour, containing 100 per cent wheat.

Wholemeal pasta, on the other hand, is made from the entire grain, but ae not always made of wheat.

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Cooking difference

Wholemeal pasta is harder in texture than refined wheat pasta, so it will need longer cooking times. Often wholemeal pasta is heavier than refined pasta because of the added nutrients, namely the bran and the germ, which provide fibre and other nutrients.

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