# Green Goddess Pasta Sauce

This green goddess pasta sauce is a protein-packed and nutritious sauce that tastes like pesto, featuring kale and spinach.

- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- kale
- spinach
- Parmesan cheese
- fresh basil
- 1 can white beans
- lemon zest
- garlic
- ladles pasta water
- pasta

## Instructions

1. Boil the kale until it's tender.
2. Right before the kale is finished, mix in some spinach until it's wilted.
3. Once all the leafy greens are wilty, take them out and add them to a blender.
4. Cook the pasta in the water used to boil the greens to reclaim some of the vitamins.
5. To the blender with the greens, add Parmesan cheese, fresh basil, a can of white beans, lemon zest, garlic, and a few ladles of the pasta water.

## Equipment

- blender

## Tips

- Adding pasta water to the sauce incorporates starch, helping it stick better to the pasta.
- For added richness, consider adding sun-dried tomatoes, especially with a little oil from them.
- For a gluten-free option, use chickpea pasta to incorporate multiple servings of beans.
- This recipe is great for meal prepping.

## Source

- Original video: https://tiktok.com/t/ZP8bE9NYk/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/139eb917-c880-4934-8dc4-933e9a8187fe
- Extracted: 2026-04-03

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