How to Make Yummy Nearly vegan spinach pasta

Nearly vegan spinach pasta. Italian Style Ravioli, Tortellini, Tagliatelle and Fettuccine Recipes. This recipe for spinach pasta is a quick and easy vegan weeknight dinner that is creamy, garlic-rich, and simply fun to slurp up with your family. The cooked pasta is coated in a creamy, slightly cheesy, velvety cashew sauce that can be made in a blender within minutes.

This creamy vegan spinach pasta tastes just like the restaurant dip served up as a filling main. Ingredients needed for making Vegan Spinach Artichoke Pasta Bake: Pasta - go with your favorite type and shape and cook according to the instructions on the package. I opted for mediumshells for this recipe, but fusilli or penne would also do. You can cook Nearly vegan spinach pasta using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Nearly vegan spinach pasta

1. It's 1 of whole wheat penne pasta or red lentil penne pasta.
2. You need 1 pack of vegan ground beef(beyond meat crumbled).
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of almond milk.
4. You need 1 oz of cream cheese.
5. Prepare 2 tbsp of Parmesan cheese.
6. Prepare 1 of garlic.
7. Prepare 1 bag of spinach.
8. Prepare 1 cup of chop bell pepper green or your fav color.
9. It's 1 cup of chopped onion.
10. You need 1 cup of chopped mushroom.
11. You need 1 tsp of salt.
12. You need 1 tsp of pepper.
13. It's 1 tsp of oregano.
14. You need 1 tsp of dried parsley.
15. It's 2 tbsp of Virgin Olive oil.

When I first created this spinach pesto pasta recipe I thought I was going to need a pound of pasta to be sauced by the nearly half pound of spinach I was blending. But alas… I always underestimate spinach's ability to reduce down to an infinitesimal volume. This is actually a good thing because this […] Vegan Spinach Pesto. As a non-vegan, I am learning new things about being a vegan all the time.

Nearly vegan spinach pasta instructions

1. For spinach sauce: in a blender or food processor add spinach, cream cheese, garlic, almond milk,Parmesan cheese and blend until smooth and creamy.
2. Cook pasta as per box instructions.
3. In a sauce pan add olive oil, bell peppers, onion,mushroom until tender then add ground beef and cook on low heat for 3 mins. Stir occasionally.
4. Add handful of spinach, pasta to the sauce pan then spinach sauce. If sauce too thick add a lil more almond milk as desired. Season with salt pepper, oregano, parsley. Stir and cover n let simmer for 5mins and low heat. Serve and enjoy.

Just last week, I learned that Parmesan cheese isn't a vegetarian cheese since it's made with animal-produced enzymes. This never would have occurred to me, but I'm so glad to learn it because it helped me develop this new Vegan Spinach Pesto. The steps are simple: saute the garlic, simmer the veg stock and pasta, stir in the cream cheese and seasoning, then fold in the spinach. Top with vegan parmesan or nutritional yeast if you want. To make this recipe gluten-free, simply substitute the penne with your favorite GF pasta.