# Green Goddess Pasta Sauce

This Green goddess pasta sauce is full of protein, kale, and spinach, but tastes just like pesto.

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

## Ingredients

- 1 bunch kale
- 1 bag spinach
- 1 lb pasta
- 1 can white beans
- 1 cup Parmesan cheese
- 1 cup fresh basil
- 2 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 2 cloves garlic
- 0.25 tsp salt

## Instructions

1. Boil kale until tender.
2. Just before the kale is finished boiling, mix in some spinach until it's wilted.
3. Once all leafy greens are wilted, take them out and add them to a blender.
4. Cook the pasta in the same water used for boiling the greens to reclaim some of the vitamins.
5. Add Parmesan cheese, fresh basil, a can of white beans, lemon zest, garlic, and a few ladles of the pasta water to the blender with the greens.
6. Blend all ingredients until smooth.
7. Pour the green goddess pasta sauce over the cooked pasta.
8. Mix the sauce and pasta together.

## Equipment

- pot
- tongs
- blender
- ladle

## Tips

- Adding pasta water to the sauce incorporates starch, making the sauce stick better to the pasta.
- Reclaiming vitamins from the cooking water by cooking pasta in it.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMSDYGqt/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/7d7e3b2b-0346-4664-8253-3cfcc62960bb
- Extracted: 2025-10-09

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