This creamy pasta is made in 10 minutes from pantry items. It’s super healthy and comforting, high in fibre and protein and tastes amazing! ????
Creamy Capsicum Pasta
A quick, comforting pasta dish made with red lentil pasta and a creamy capsicum sauce. Perfect for a healthy, high-fiber, and protein-rich meal.
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 250 g red lentil pasta
Sauce
- ½ cup (64.5 g) cashews - soaked
- 200 g jarred roasted red bell peppers
- 1 tsp red chili flakes
- 1 tbsp onion powder
- 1 tsp sea salt flakes
- ½ tsp (0.5 tsp) freshly cracked black pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- ½ cup (22 g) nutritional yeast
- 2 cup (473.18 ml) oat milk
Instructions
- Cook the red lentil pasta according to the instructions on the packet.
- While the pasta is cooking, add all the sauce ingredients (soaked cashews, jarred roasted capsicum, chilli flakes, onion powder, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, nutritional yeast, and oat milk) to a blender.
- Blend the sauce ingredients until you achieve a smooth consistency.
- Once the pasta is cooked, drain it and return it to the pot. Stir in the creamy capsicum sauce until the pasta is well coated. If desired, add some baby spinach for extra nutrition and color.
- Serve the Creamy Capsicum Pasta hot and enjoy your quick, healthy meal!
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Hi, I don’t have any nutritional yeast, can I make it without or is it integral to the success of the sauce? Thank you
Hey Nicky, nutritional yeast brings a cheesy and umami flavor, if you skip it you will need to add more seasonings 🙂
Hi, could I use soy milk instead of oat milk? Thanks
absolutely 🙂
Made this today with the intention of having a few lunch portions for myself for the week, however my kids wanted it for dinner and ate it all! I didn’t have any jarred paprika so I used a couple of fresh red paprika. I also added chopped spinach, broccoli and frozen peas for extra veggies!
Hey Melanie, so happy you and the kids enjoyed it 💕 love the addition of extra veggies in there!
We cooked this yesterday and it was super yummy! Going to reheat it today , is it ok to microwave?
Hey Fran, I’m so happy you liked it! Yes, I’m sure the microwave will be fine 🙂