Avocado Cream Pasta with Bacon

A warm dish with a thick creamy sauce and no butter — the body comes from the avocado. The pasta’s dark colour works well against the green.

The pasta contributes 19.8 g of protein per serving (120 g dry across 2, at 33 g per 100 g). That is the pasta alone — the other ingredients are not counted, because their figures depend on the brand used.

Ingredients

• Protelle pasta — 120 g dry
• Avocado — 1 large
• Lemon — a quarter
• Cream, 10–15% — 100 ml
• Bacon — 6 rashers
• Parmesan
• Salt, pepper, dried garlic

Method

1. Cook the pasta in salted water as directed on the pack — 8–10 minutes. Keep 2–3 tbsp of the cooking water.
2. Fry the bacon in a dry pan until crisp, then drain it on kitchen paper and chop.
3. For the sauce, blend the avocado, lemon juice, cream, salt and seasoning until creamy. Loosen with a little of the reserved pasta water if needed.
4. Toss the drained pasta with the avocado cream in a large bowl.
5. Divide between plates, top with the bacon and scatter with parmesan. Finish with freshly ground pepper if you like.

The pasta for this recipe: Protelle protein pasta, 300 g. How to cook it — step by step.