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Pink Pasta

The perfect Valentines Pretty Pink Pasta, or the perfect pasta dish for any time! A rich & creamy garlic Alfredo sauce made with cashews, roasted garlic, and beautifully coloured by roasted beets! It's so lovely, perfect for love day!
Course Dinner
Keyword Pasta, Pink Pasta, Valentines Day
Servings 6 people
Author eastongilowski

Ingredients

  • Your favourite Pasta

Pretty Pink Pasta Sauce

  • 1 beet
  • 1+½ cups soaked cashews
  • 3 heads roasted garlic
  • 2-3 shallots or 1 small red onion
  • squeeze fresh lemon juice
  • ¼ cup coconut milk or almond milk
  • ½ cup veggie broth
  • 1 tsp sea salt adjust to your liking
  • 1 tsp pepper adjust to your liking
  • splash white wine vinegar

TOPPINGS

  • fresh parsley
  • toasted walnuts or pine nuts

Instructions

  • Soak your cashews if not overnight, then in boiling water for at-least 20-25 minutes, preferable right until we use them in the sauce
  • Preheat your oven to 425°. Peel and wash your beets and dice them into cubes, season with salt and pepper wrap in tinfoil and place in the oven for 50 minutes! Place your garlic in a dish add a generous amount of olive oil, salt and pepper! Place the garlic in the oven! The garlic only takes 20-25 minutes to be sure to watch this! You can easily poke a fork in the beets when they are done!
  • While your beets and garlic are roasting, dice your shallots or onion, and fry in pan over medium heat with olive oil salt and pepper! Allow it to become translucent and slightly browned and then remove it from the heat
  • Once you have your roasted garlic, softened beets, soaked cashews, and cooked shallots, add all of this this to a blender! Add your lemon juice, veggie broth, coconut milk, salt and pepper! Taste test and adjust the flavour with more salt or pepper! Transfer this to a large saucepan to keep warm on low-medium heat, add your white wine vinegar and allow this to warm while we cook the pasta.
  • Boil water and cook your pasta. Make sure to keep pasta water, this helps create a beautiful coating of sauce over the pasta.
  • Add your rinsed and cooked noodles to your pink pasta sauce, as well as a splash of pasta water. Mix until fully coated! Adjust with salt, pepper or more fresh lemon. Dish, and top with fresh parsley and your honey balsamic glazed walnuts! Or fresh parm!