Or to give it it's full title: Creamy spinach garlic lemon nutmeg sauce...yeah, there's a lot going on there but it works and is so easy - just chuck it all into a blender till smooth :) I based this on my previous Creamy Lemon Garlic Sauce but had some spinach that needed using up so got to experimenting. Basically kept it the same but as well as spinach added some nutmeg and some nutritional yeast. Like the last post it gets it's creaminess from coconut milk but again, don't worry, with everything else going on you don't taste anything coconutty but it does make for a super creamy pasta sauce :) Also, I didn't show it in the photo here but I added some fried mushrooms to mine which went really well with it.
Serves 2 generously:
200ml coconut milk, full fat or reduced
zest of 2 lemons
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp fine sea salt
2 large cloves garlic
120g spinach
2 Tbsp nutritional yeast
freshly grated nutmeg
freshly ground black pepper
200g pasta of your choice
For the sauce simply place everything in a blender and puree until super smooth. That's it! Cook pasta according to package instructions but remove with a couple minutes left. Drain and place back into pot. Pour the sauce over, it will look like too much but don't worry, it cooks down. Cook over medium heat until hot and thickened up. Taste and adjust seasoning with salt/pepper/nutmeg as you like.
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Delicious... but are the spinach cooked or raw ? I guess it can be done both ways.. I'll try it tonight with oat milk. Thanks
Hi! Spinach is raw, it'll get cooked up when heated with the pasta. I haven't tried this with other milks, obviously you won't get the creaminess that coconut milk provides so I'm not sure if other ingredients need to be modified. You might need a thickener of some sort - cornflour, arrowroot etc... hope it works out! :):) Oat or Soy Cream probably could be replaced easily....
We've been making a raw spinach sauce like this for a while, using fresh alpro soya cream. It works really well with pasta.
Making this for dinner right now. Thanks for the recipe it looks great.
That looks so lovely!
This looks good. I wasn't expecting to see coconut milk among the ingredients.
Just made this for dinner- such a lovely and fresh recipe.
I added a small amount of ground cloves and grains of paradise, maybe a bit more lemon juice as I didn't measure very accurately.
This is easily going to become a family staple. My two year old gobbled it up and asked for seconds.
Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks for the comments!
So glad you liked it Jayme! It's quite a versatile recipe too, I have made recently with soy cream instead of the coconut milk - whatever I happen to have open!
Actually I think I make it differently every time :-)
Yum! I just found this and made it - currently without a blender, so I just diced some spinach and let all of the ingredients simmer a bit longer. Added some portobello mushrooms and dusted with nutritional yeast. Great recipe, thank you!!1
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