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Thursday, June 4, 2020
Easy Summer Zucchini Pasta
Ingredients
one
pound
of your favorite curt-cut pasta (I used farfalle/bowties)
ane/4
loving cup
extra virgin olive petroleum
vi
cloves
garlic, thinly sliced
one/four
teaspoon
crushed cerise pepper flakes (optional)
six
cups
diced zucchini and/or yellowish squash*
one/4
teaspoon
salt
ane/4
teaspoon
pepper
ane
loving cup
freshly grated parmesan cheese, addition extra for serving
one/iv
loving cup
chopped fresh basil, summation extra for serving
Instructions
Bring a pot of H2O to a boil for the pasta. Generously salt the water. (It gives your pasta a ton of flavour!)
Meanwhile, heat a large skillet over medium to medium-high rut in addition to add the olive rock oil. Once hot, add the garlic as well as cherry pepper flakes and sauté for 30 seconds to ane minute or until fragrant. (You don't desire the garlic to brown at all). Add the zucchini in addition to squeeze together with sauté for iv-v minutes or until tender. Season with salt together with pepper. (Cook pasta until al dente if yous haven't done so at this betoken).
Once pasta is cooked, drain thoroughly and add dorsum into the pot. Add the zucchini mixture to the pasta in addition to toss until coated. Add the parmesan as well as toss, also every bit the chopped basil. Season to sense of taste with additional common salt and pepper. Serve alongside extra parmesan too fresh basil!
Recipe Notes
*I used one-half zucchini as well as one-half yellowish squelch, simply you lot tin can use all of i or the other!

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