Creamy Spinach and Tofu Pasta
Automatically translated from Romanian. See the Romanian original
Creamy, fasting-friendly pasta with a vibrant spinach and tofu sauce — quick, light, and full of flavor.
Ingredients
Method
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Wash the spinach in cold water.
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Blanch the spinach in boiling water for 1 minute.
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Drain the spinach and rinse it with cold water.
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Submerge the spinach in a bowl of cold water and ice cubes and leave it there while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
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Prepare the sauce by blending the chilled spinach, tofu, vegan cream (or cold water), garlic, salt, pepper, and olive oil until you reach a light, not-too-thick consistency.
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Boil the pasta in salted water.
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Toss the cooked pasta with all of the sauce.
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If you feel it's needed, add some of the pasta cooking water.
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Optionally, sprinkle with nuts and nutritional yeast (or regular parmesan, if you don't want a fasting-friendly version).
The story behind this recipe
Delicious, healthy, and nourishing. These pasta dishes are very easy to make, and you only need a few ingredients for them. For the sauce, I used fresh spinach; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get this vibrant and appetizing green color 💚. Basically, I washed the spinach in cold water, blanched it in boiling water for 1 minute, then drained it, rinsed it with cold water, and finally submerged it in a bowl of cold water with about 20 ice cubes. Leave it there until you prepare the rest of the ingredients! You also need a few cubes of tofu, vegan cream (if you don't have any, use cold water), fresh garlic (to taste), salt, pepper, and olive oil. I didn't measure the ingredients, but they should be added in enough quantity to get a light, not too thick sauce. We boil the pasta in salted water and mix it with all the sauce. If you feel it's needed, add a bit of the water the pasta boiled in. Optionally, you can sprinkle some nuts and nutritional yeast on top, the latter replacing parmesan. If you don't want them fasting-friendly, add regular parmesan. Is there any better vegan pasta out there? 🥰 Enjoy and bon appétit!
