Explore Pasta Alternatives with Explore Cuisine

With the holidays approaching, now is the time to start making healthy choices in our diets. 

Explore Cuisine's alternative pastas can help you eat healthier while still enjoying your favorite pasta dishes. 

Explore Cuisine is a leader in innovative cooking using organic ingredients of the highest quality. These pastas integrate beans, peas, lentils, and rice to provide you and your family nourishing meals which are easy, quick, colorful, and simply delicious! All Explore Cuisine products are vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO and jam packed with nutrients.

Pulse Pastas: Made from organic lentils and chickpeas, these pastas are high in protein and a great source of fiber and iron. Vegan, organic, and gluten free- it's a perfect dish for everyone at the table. In just minutes your family will be enjoying fresh pastas made in Italy. 
Varieties include Chickpea Fusilli, Red Lentil Penne, Green Lentil Penne, Green Lentil Lasagne, Chickpea Spaghetti and Red Lentil Spaghetti. 

Edamame Spaghetti with Kale Cilantro Pesto

Ingredients:

·                1 cup of kale, tightly packed

·                1 cup of cilantro, tightly packed

·                ¼ cup оf slivered almonds, toasted

·                1 garlic clove

·                1 serrano chile

·                1 tbsp lime juice

·                Dash of salt

·                ¼ cup of parmesan, grated

·                ½ cup of olive oil

·                1 knob ginger, sliced into shards

·                olive oil

·                2 carrots, sliced into ribbons

·                ¼ cup of shredded coconut, toasted

·                1 box (8 oz) Explore Cuisine Edamame Spaghetti

Preparation:

1.              Blend first seven ingredients in a food processor. Add cheese. Stream in olive oil. Sauté ginger in oil until crispy.

2.              Boil 8 cups of water and pour in Organic Edamame Spaghetti. Cook for 8 minutes. Drain.

3.              Toss together Edamame Spaghetti with carrots and pesto. Top with ginger and toasted coconut.

4.              ENJOY!

Organic Chickpea Fusilli with Mozzarella Pearls, Tomatoes and Olives

Ingredients

·                7 oz Explore Cuisine Chickpea Fusilli - cooked, rinsed and drained

·                5 oz cherry tomatoes - halved

·                4 oz niçoise olives - pitted

·                3 oz sundried tomatoes - roughly chopped

·                1 tbsp plain sesame seeds

·                1 tbsp toasted sesame seeds

·                1/2 tsp dried oregano

·                1/4 tsp coarse sea salt

·                Dash of olive oil

Instructions

1.              Mix together all of the ingredients except for the fusilli and garnish.

2.              Then, gently fold the mixture into the fusilli.

3.              Garnish with broccoli and red radish sprouts.