Meat-free meal: Zucchini pasta with a lemony garlic sauce

Zucchini pasta with lemony garlic sauce

Until very recently we had my Ma living with us, and feeding an extra mouth each night took a little more creativity than usual. Not that my Ma expects anything fancy, but it’s always nice to cook something delicious when you’ve got people to feed, isn’t it?

This isn’t the healthiest pasta dish {hello cream and butter} but it certainly is high on the yum factor. I wasn’t expecting it, but as everyone tucked into their first mouthful, a positive reaction quickly followed. “This is really good,” Ma exclaimed.

And now this dish is placed on the ‘will totally make again’ list. I think next time I might throw in some toasted pine nuts for a little crunch.

Zucchini pasta with lemony garlic sauce

Ingredients

375g bow tie pasta
4 medium zucchini
30g butter
1 tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/3 cup vegetable stock
1/2 cup cream
2 teaspoons finely grated lemon rind
75g baby spinach leaves
1/3 cup coarsely chopped chives
shaved parmesan, to serve

Method

♥ Cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling water as per instructions on packaging {or until al dente}.
♥ While the pasta is cooking, work on the sauce. Cut zucchinis lengthways down the middle, and then slice thinly on the diagonal.
♥ Heat the butter and oil in a large frying pan. Toss in the zucchini and garlic over medium heat and cook until the zucchini is tender. Add stock, stir to combine. Reduce the heat and add the cream, lemon rind, spinach and chives. Stir until all combined and heated through.
♥ Once the pasta is cooked, drain and then add to the zucchini mixture. Toss gently.
♥ Serve in bowls topped with parmesan cheese.

What’s for dinner tonight at your house?

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12 thoughts on “Meat-free meal: Zucchini pasta with a lemony garlic sauce”

  1. This sounds wonderful, I love zucchini & lemon pasta! I think the vegetable stock might just be the missing ingredient from my own favourite recipe of Limoncello zucchini pasta 🙂

  2. Omg! I have all this & just couldn’t quite get my sauce quite right, THANK U THANK U THANK U! Have a great day…IT’S A GREAT DAY TO Be ALIVE!! 🙂

  3. MADE IT, LOVED IT. We added peas – freshened it up nicely. This will be a regular in our household too. I have some leftovers for lunch today – lucky me 🙂 Thank you for sharing!

  4. Hello! I have lots of lemons to use up right now and this looks like a great way to use them! I have linked up to this post in my grateful/10 ways to use lemons post. It’s live tomorrow morning(23 August) – I’m telling you now so I don’t forget! 🙂

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