Italian

Pasta con le Zucchine (Pasta with Courgettes)

Name: Pasta con le Zucchine (Pasta with Courgettes)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 12 oz pasta; 3 zucchini; 2 garlic cloves; 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1/2 cup grated parmesan; 6 leaves fresh basil; 1/2 tsp salt

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Pasta con le Zucchine (Pasta with Courgettes) is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

12 oz pasta
3 zucchini
2 garlic cloves
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup grated parmesan
6 leaves fresh basil
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Slice the zucchini into thin rounds.
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the pasta until al dente.
Meanwhile, warm the olive oil in a wide skillet and cook the garlic 30 seconds.
Add the zucchini and salt, and cook over medium-high heat until golden and tender, about 10 minutes.
Drain the pasta, reserving a little pasta water, and toss it through the zucchini with the parmesan, loosening with pasta water as needed.
Tear the basil over the top and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Pasta con le Zucchine (Pasta with Courgettes)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pasta con le Zucchine (Pasta with Courgettes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pasta con le Zucchine (Pasta with Courgettes) carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pasta con le Zucchine (Pasta with Courgettes)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 450 kcal
Protein: 16 g
Carbs: 64 g
Fat: 14 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 510 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pasta con le Zucchine (Pasta with Courgettes) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.