Healthy Creamy Avocado Pasta.

I'm gonna put this out there right away, I love avocados!!!! So I'm forever looking for new ways to add avocados to my meals. I heard avocados actually make you happy?.. yet another reason why they're amazing.

Avocados aren't for everyone though, just like any foods there's going to always be people that hate them. When I first tried them, I wasn't keen but I've grown to love them. Picking out the perfectly ripe avocado makes a huge difference in the way they taste too. Click here for tips on knowing when an avocado is ripe.

This avocado spaghetti recipe is so creamy, filling and extremely easy to make. It's really the perfect healthy comfort food. Who doesn't love a nice big bowl of spaghetti at the end of a long day? Enough blabbing, let's get started on the recipe.

Ingredients

-1 large ripe Avocado / 2 small Avocados.

-Squeeze of lemon juice (optional).

-Garlic powder to taste.

-Dash of milk (optional depending on how thick you want the sauce)

-Wholegrain spaghetti or pasta of your choice. 

-Any extras of your choice (I'm using feta cheese and wild rocket)

Either serves 2 normal sized portions.. Or 1 huge portion. (I refuse to share this with anyone it's that yum)

[2 Small Avocados, Wild Rocket, Wholegrain Spaghetti]

[Avocado Before & After Blending]

How to make: 

1. Cut avocado in half, remove pit, scoop out avocado with a spoon. And dice. 

2. Add the avocado, lemon juice, dash of milk and garlic powder to a blender/food processor and blend until smooth. 

3. Boil a saucepan of water and add the spaghetti/pasta. 

4. While the spaghetti is cooking, now is the time to prepare whatever you're choosing to eat with the pasta. For me it was as simple as cutting up feta cheese in to little cubes (I was feeling lazy)

5. Drain the pasta and add back to the sauce pan. Add the avocado 'sauce' and stir in. 

6. Serve with your choice of extra ingredients. I served on a bed of wild rocket and scattered the feta on top.

ENJOYYYY

[Healthy Avocado Spaghetti]

If you're an avocado lover like me I'm 99.9% sure you'll love this as much as I do. If you're not sure what to have with it I'll give you a little list of ideas. 

- Bacon 

- Mushrooms 

- Parmesan cheese 

- Chicken 

- Salmon 

- Tomatoes 

There's plenty of different things that go well with avocados.

Give this recipe a try and let me know in the comments if you enjoyed it :-) 

It's amazing hot or cold.. Which is pretty convenient since by the time I'd snapped 1000 photos for this I could still enjoy it. 

What's your favourite avocado based recipe?

I'll be posting some more healthy recipes in the next up coming weeks. 

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Nicole 

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2 Ingredient Healthy Pancakes!!

Hiya. Hope everyone is well this Friday evening!

Since pancake day has passed and I'm pretty sure some of you are still getting a pancake craving. I thought I'd give you a pancake 'recipe' that I've been enjoying for many years now,(if you'd all 2 ingredients a recipe..) ready for your Saturday or Sunday morning breakfast this weekend!

These pancakes are very simple to make. And contain ingredients most people already have in the house. All you need is...

Ingredients:

-2 eggs.

-1 ripe banana. (best with brown speckles on)

I actually usually use 3 ingredients. I add some peanut butter to mine, I just love the combination of peanut butter and banana. If I don't have PB, sometimes I add a dash of cinnamon for extra flavour. But if you don't fancy adding anything else, they taste great with just the 2 ingredients!

How to make.

- First step is blend up the eggs and banana. If you don't have a blender, you can just mash the banana up with a fork (or a potato masher) as well as possible, and add to well whisked eggs. Sometimes warming the banana in the microwave for 30 secs, makes it easier to mash up. If you don't use a blender your mixture will be a little lumpier, but they will still taste the same.

- Next put a frying pan on a high heat, with either a tiny bit of olive oil, a tiny bit of butter or if you can get a hold of it Frylite Olive Oil Spray, this spray is apparently 1 calorie a spray and it works well to prevent sticking. Once the pan is hot pour on the first pancake. It's best to make them quite small so it's easier to flip, cause at times they can be a nightmare when it comes to breaking apart. At this point I usually turn the heat down a little to prevent them burning, as the banana cooks pretty fast.

- Once the pancake is covered in lots of tiny bubbles it means its ready to flip, carefully push the edges of the pancake up all around before putting the spatula underneath to flip. You'll find on some of your pancakes the bottom will be very brown/dark, this doesn't always mean its burnt. Usually it's because the banana browns very fast on the heat. My first pancake on the photo below was a pretty decent colour.

- Pop the pancake to the side (in the oven on a low heat if you want to keep warm). And repeat until all of your batter is gone!

These pancakes like I said, are extremely easy to make. The only downside I find is that making them one by one is a little time consuming. Unless I have a lot of time on my hands, I now enjoy these pancakes in a different way. I make the batter all the same, but instead of making small pancakes - I make one giant pancake. Preheat the grill before hand and once the bottom of the pancake is cooked, instead of flipping. Pop the frying pan under the grill (not the handle! if the handle is plastic.. it will melt.) and just keep an eye on it for few minutes while the top browns off. Pop on a plate - DONE! Making one giant pancake tastes the same but it's just a lot faster if you don't have the time to make tiny ones. I kinda prefer the giant pancake too.

Now your pancakes are ready, serve them with a topping of your choice, more banana, other fruits, dark chocolate chips, maple syrup, honey!

I chose too drizzle mine with maple syrup - mmmmm

You may not find these pancakes are for you. But I love them, if I'm dying for some pancakes while I'm trying to be healthy these never disappoint! If you try them, leave me a comment on how you found them and if they were for you.

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Nicole 

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