Dips within the pool, chilly drinks, and juicy summer season produce are excessive on my listing of life’s greatest choices proper now. Whereas I is perhaps prepared for this intense warmth to subside, there’s nonetheless nothing just like the final days of summer season—and my farmer’s market haul signifies that my produce drawer is filled with far more summer season squash than I do know what to do with.

I’m leaning into the abundance by making this mouthwatering zucchini pasta recipe that remember’s the season’s greatest flavors. Summer season squashes, nutty parmesan, zesty lemon, and fragrant herbs come collectively for probably the greatest easy pastas in my playbook. Eat it al fresco and faux such as you’re in Italy.

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Why You’ll Love This Zucchini Pasta

Sure, there are loads of zucchini pastas on the market—however that is the ONE I’ve acquired on repeat. What makes it actually nice (apart from the brief ingredient listing) is the particular mixture of flavors. Candy, caramelized squash with salty parmesan. The intense acid of the lemon and the recent herbs make it comforting, vibrant, and nourishing—with out being in any respect heavy. It’s a celebration of summer season’s most interesting, making a dish that’s each comforting and vibrant.

I like to make use of a tube-shaped pasta for this one—paccheri, rigatoni, or pesto—in order that the scrumptious sauce will get scooped up into each chew.

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First, Collect Your Substances

Right here’s what you’ll have to make this zucchini pasta:

• olive oil
• garlic
• summer season squash and zucchini
• paccheri or rigatoni
• parmesan
• lemon
• basil or mint
• pine nuts or walnuts

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One Pot Dinner = Simple Breezy Clear-Up

In the course of the summer season, I’m all in regards to the one-pot dinner and that is no exception. This pasta follows a brilliant easy methodology:

• Sauté smashed garlic cloves in olive oil.
• Add the squash and let it prepare dinner over medium low for half-hour, to let it get good and caramelized.
• Add al dente pasta to the squash together with pasta water, parmesan, lemon zest and juice, and recent basil.
• Prime it with extra cheese, nuts, and herbs—then devour.

Advised you it was straightforward.

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Substances Swaps for Success

Easy pasta recipes like this one are so adaptable based mostly in your preferences and what you’ve acquired hanging out in your produce drawer. Listed below are some successful swaps if you wish to adapt this recipe:

• For a extra nutrient-rich choice, you should utilize whole-grain pasta, or perhaps a chickpea pasta like Banza.
• Make it vegan by skipping the parmesan and choosing a sprinkle of dietary yeast as an alternative.
• I personally like so as to add a double dose of lemon zest and a giant squeeze of juice to make it sing.
• And naturally, you may at all times add extra summer season veggies. Eggplant can sauté proper together with the zucchini. Or, add a bunch of chopped tomatoes over the past 5 minutes of cooking time.

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And also you’ve acquired a pleasant zucchini pasta recipe that celebrates the bounty of late-summer produce! With its caramelized squash, aromatic herbs, and nutty parmesan, this dish retains it easy and scrumptious, and it equally good for a comfortable weeknight dinner as it’s for a weekend feast with associates. Scroll on for the recipe, and you should definitely tag my on Instagram if you happen to make it.

Different Easy Summer season Pasta Recipes to Attempt

Lemony Spring Pasta Salad with Artichokes and Bacon

Rigatoni with Brussels Sprouts and Kale Pesto

Ratatouille-Fashion Roasted Vegetable Pasta

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