Pasta with zucchini and ricotta, a first course that can be served warm or cold, perfect for serving during the summer season. It’s a quick dish, as you can prepare the sauce while the pasta cooks. Additionally, you can make the ricotta and zucchini sauce a day in advance, so it’s ready when you cook the pasta.
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- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Affordable
- Preparation time: 10 Minutes
- Portions: 4 People
- Cooking methods: Stovetop
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Spring, Summer, and Fall
Ingredients for Pasta with Zucchini and Ricotta
- 10 oz pasta
- 14 oz zucchini
- 8.8 oz ricotta
- 10 leaves mint
- 1 clove garlic
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
Recommended Tools
- Immersion Blender
Preparation of PASTA WITH ZUCCHINI AND RICOTTA
Wash and dry the zucchini; trim and dice them.
Peel the garlic clove and sauté it in a pan with some extra virgin olive oil (I used only 2 tablespoons). After about a minute, remove the garlic clove and add the zucchini to the pan; season with salt and pepper, then sauté for a couple of minutes, stirring.
Cover with a lid and continue cooking for 6-7 minutes. The zucchini doesn’t need to be very cooked; they should remain a bit ‘crunchy.’ If you diced the zucchini very small, 4-5 minutes of cooking may be enough.
Remove from heat, pour the zucchini into a bowl, and let them cool.
When the zucchini are cool, add the mint leaves and blend with an immersion blender. Add the ricotta and continue blending until you obtain a creamy and homogeneous mixture.
Cook the pasta in plenty of salted water and drain it, then pour it into the bowl with the sauce and mix well (if needed, add a little pasta cooking water).
Your pasta with zucchini and ricotta is ready to be served.
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Notes
If you want a warm dish, drain the pasta immediately after removing it from the heat; if you prefer a cold dish, add a stream of cold running water to the cooking water before draining the pasta.
You can replace the mint with some basil leaves or a sprig of parsley.
The recipe for pasta with zucchini and ricotta is included in the recipe collections of:
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Recipes with Fresh Ricotta
First Courses with Zucchini
Summer First Courses
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