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Wild garlic spring pasta is a delicious and quick vegan dish, the perfect way to celebrate the first spring sunshine and eat as much wild garlic as you can. It’s a short season so use it out!
Ramps or also called wild leek or bear leek is loaded with wonderful nutrients and vitamins. You can find them in the woods this time of the year, they are popping up everywhere. Use wild garlic as a herb or as a green leafy salad, you can make amazing soups, pestos, spreads, dips or salads with it. I highly recommend you to also freeze some, so you can use them later too.
I don’t wanna exaggerate but this pasta is probably the best I’ve ever tried! I am just so excited about this dish! It is fresh, creamy, ‘cheesy’ and garlicky at the same time, it’s full of the best spring tastes. The more wild leek you use the better it gets. You can also add asparagus or fresh spinach instead of the green peas. Serve it warm (or cold as a pasta salad)!
Creamy Wild Garlic Spring Pasta
- Total Time: 15 mins
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup of frozen peas
- 300 g pasta of your choice
- 1 cup of cashews (preferably soaked for 4-8 hours)
- 1 bunch of wild garlic
- 1 lime
- 4 tbsp nutritional yeast
- olive oil
- salt, pepper
Instructions
- Add pasta and frozen peas to boiling water and cook until pasta is ready. Drain and place back to the pot.
- While pasta and peas are cooking prepare the sauce. Place drained cashews, wild garlic, nutritional yeast, lime juice and zest in a food processor and blend until smooth. Add a few tablespoon of water if it’s too thick.
- Add the sauce to the drained pasta and cook them together, so everything is nice and warm. Serve the pasta with olive oil and lime juice on top. Enjoy!
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
This looks fantastic! Cashew cream is magical.
Thank you!
I use cashew cream all the time, I like it more than any other non-dairy or dairy one 😉
Wild garlic is amazing, love what you have done with it here… I can almost taste it!
YES!! Wild garlic is just the best, so bad it has such a short season
Wow the pasta sauce looks so fresh & delicious!
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Thank you 🙂
This looks amazing!!! And I love your photos! I live for delicious green spring salads like this! It looks so creamy and flavorful 🙂
Thank you, Izzy! 🙂
I love everything green too!
Yum! I’m making this for dinner tonight. Well, I don’t have ramps, but I’ll substitute kale and make everything else the same. I’ll let you know how much we loved it tomorrow! 🙂 Pinned.
Kale sounds great! I’ll try that version too!
There are ramps here everywhere, I collect a lot everyday so I’m using it now in everything 😀
I don’t have ramps around here, but scapes will be showing up soon at the farmers markets!. My Goodness Evi! This looks/sounds amazing! Every time I do something new with cashews, I am amazed! So I can see how this would be no different! Love how creamy and springy this is… just beautiful! Pinned for later! xo
That’s interesting, Traci. You can buy ramps here anywhere, I’ve also collected a lot in the forest. But I’ve never heard of scapes before. I’ve seen pictures of it, but I had no idea what’s that. I wanna get some now 😉
Cashew creme and in general cashews are so crazily good! I use it more and more often and I have to say it is super tasty every time!
Hi. Do you use roasted or raw cashews to do this? I never used them like this before and I read somewhere that one should use raw cashews. However, I find it difficult to find raw ones around here, I looked in several shops and they only sell roasted.
I still have wild garlic in the garden, it came later than the one in the woods so maybe I still have the time to try this this year.
Hey Adina,
I use raw cashews for this one. I find the roasted ones are great for pestos or to top the salads, but they won’t form a good and smooth cream if they are not raw. I’d say you could try to use raw almonds or sunflower seeds instead, I like to use those too. It won’t be the same but still good.
And btw I often order my nuts, sometimes it’s also difficult here to get raw ones or they cost horribly lot. But I always find good deals online 😉