Pasta is such a great food to eat!
I love it! You can make it Italian, with a dish like spaghetti and meat balls
or you can make it Asian with Yaki Soba noodles in a soy, peanut sauce. Honestly
the possibilities are endless.
Since I’ve
been trying to eat a plant-based diet it’s been a little hard finding foods
that I can eat (and it’s been a little hard finding the motivation to eat
healthy). I was recently at a local health food store and I found some amazing
dairy free, meat free raviolis. They had a delicious butternut squash filling, and
they were really easy to make. If you’ve ever been to Panera Bread you’ve
probably seen the butternut squash ravioli dish they serve there. It has a
cream based sauce, and it’s really good. Before I went plant-based I used to
eat there a lot. Anyways, I tried to copy the recipe and it turned out amazing.
I
cooked the ravioli and while I did that I made a vegan cream sauce. I melted
some Earth Balance in a pan, with some almond milk and minced garlic. To
thicken it up I added a sprinkle of flour into the pan. I also added a little
bit of garlic olive oil for taste (I’m a garlic lover). I mixed it until the
sauce was nice and smooth, then I added the ravioli.
Right
now we’re growing fresh basil so, I grabbed three basil leaves and cut them up and
put them in the pan. This is actually the second time I’ve made this dish, and
my mom and sister love it! I didn’t want to serve pasta alone so I sautéed some
kale and mushrooms to go on the side. I also bought some really yummy organic
rolls that went great with the ravioli.
If you’re
wanting to eat a plant-based diet, pasta is a really easy thing to make. You can
easily replace unwanted ingredients with plant-based ones, and most noodles don’t
contain animal products. I just recommend avoiding egg noodles.
For
sauces that call for butter you can get Earth Balance instead and replacing
cream sauces with cashew cream is very common with this type of eating. You can
put cashew cream on pasta but, it is also great to put on kale. It adds extra
flavor and makes it more filling. For a great cashew cream recipe click here ->
recipe.
recipe.
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