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Blue Pasta

Recipe

Blue pasta recipe has taken over social media feeds for its striking colour, which is an unnatural shade of blue, which is not typical of many foods, and its impressive nutritional profile, delivering 13g of fibre per portion without relying on heavy cream. This pasta recipe does not use the traditional dairy-heavy sauce and instead features a blended base of cauliflower, white beans, and ricotta, finished with a spoonful of blue spirulina powder that gives this pasta its signature hue. You can use any pasta variety for this recipe, be it penne, fusilli, macaroni or rigatoni. If you want to go the extra mile, then make your own pasta and dye it blue just like the pasta sauce. Stick to the typical pasta recipe on the internet and then add a bit of the blue spirulina powder into it. Adjust the amount based on the shade of blue you want, at the dough-making stage. Then rest and shape the pasta as usual, using a sharp knife (for spaghetti), or roll it into shapes using other equipment. You could also dye the pasta another colour using vegetable powders from beets, turmeric and spinach to dye the pasta pink or red, green and yellow, respectively. This pasta recipe uses spaghetti, and its sauce, unlike other pastas that use butter and cream, in recipes like alfredo pasta, gets its body from pureed vegetables and legumes. The resulting dish is delightfully blue and light, while still tasting indulgent. The blue spirulina is primarily used for its colour and its nutritional content. So this pasta recipe is healthy, and making the dish is as fun to look at as it is to eat. This pasta recipe barely takes much time to make, on a stovetop and in a blender, making it suited for a weeknight dinner while still being special for guests.