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Ingredients
- water for cooking pasta
- 500 g orecchiette pasta
- 1 ½ tsp fine sea salt
- 20 g fresh basil leaves plus extra roughly chopped for garnishing
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 - 2 fresh red chillies halved, deseeded (if desired), to taste
- 60 g almonds
-
80
g Parmesan cheese cut in pieces (2 cm)
or vegetarian hard cheese cut in pieces (2 cm) - 2 avocados ripe, cut in pieces, plus 1 avocado sliced (1 cm) for garnishing
- 40 g freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 50 g olive oil
- 2 pinches ground black pepper
- Nutrition
- per 1 portion
- Calories
- 628 kcal / 2627 kJ
- Protein
- 20 g
- Fat
- 33 g
- Carbohydrates
- 60 g
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