Who doesn’t love a good bowl of pasta? Pasta is comfort food, but jarred sauces, heavy meats, and enriched ingredients can make you feel bloated. Not to mention, jarred sauce contains way too much sodium, unhealthy fats, and processed ingredients. That’s why it’s important to make your own sauce and go a little lighter with your ingredients to avoid belly bloat and food coma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For this recipe, the sauce is a lemon\/olive oil-based sauces that you prepare without heat. The addition of dijon mustard adds a little extra bite to this sauce, and it complements the shallots, garlic, and asparagus quite nicely. Typically, pasta dishes like this one contain cheese. Since this is a vegan recipe, nutritional yeast is the substitute, but it still offers that signature cheesy flavor. In fact, feel free to sprinkle a little extra nutritional yeast on the pasta when it’s complete for extra cheesiness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t worry about missing the meat in this pasta recipe! Not only do the chopped walnuts add texture and a slightly nutty flavor, but they also make this pasta meatier. The capers bring a wonderful briny flavor to the pasta, playing off that spicy dijon mustard and acidic lemon juice in the sauce. Adding the capers in with the herbs towards the end means that they won’t cook as much. That helps them retain their briny flavor, which this pasta desperately needs. Now, if you don’t like capers, feel free to omit them from the recipe. You can achieve the same briny flavor by adding olives instead. <\/p>\n
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Zesty and bursting with bright spring flavors, this lemon asparagus pasta is perfect for an easy weeknight meal or romantic date night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":158013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[3086,3886,6195,1907,2024,2041,2157,2159,2353,2430,2563,2579,2689,3078],"recipe_category":[1788,1791,1792],"yoast_head":"\n