Pasta with courgette sauce

Name: Pasta with courgette sauce
Prep time: 90 min
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 onions; 4 garlic cloves; 6 courgettes; 100 g basil pesto; 2 tbsp olive oil; 350 g pasta; 1 cube vegetable bouillon; 2 tsp dried Italian herbs; 1 tsp sea salt; 2 tbsp lemon juice; a little pepper

main dish

Total: 1 hr 30 min. | Active: 1 hr 30 min.

vegan, lactose-free

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Do you remember when Zoodles, courgette “pasta” made of fine courgette strips, was hugely popular about five years ago? Well, much as I like courgettes... I simply love pasta more. This doesn’t mean that courgettes have to be removed from the recipe, or that they can’t be the highlight of the dish! In this recipe the courgettes are slowly and gently cooked until they become a delicious sauce. The sauce is slowly reduced, so that all the wonderful flavour remains. The recipe takes a little time, but not much attention – and the result is worth waiting for!

Recipe by:
LAUREN - Food Photography Academy

Ingredients

for 4 people

Sauce
2 tbsp	olive oil
2	onions, finely chopped
4	garlic cloves, finely chopped
6	courgettes, sliced
1 cube	vegetable bouillon
2 tsp	dried Italian herbs
1 tsp	sea salt
100 g	basil pesto, vegan
2 tbsp	lemon juice
a little	pepper

Pasta
	salted water, boiling
350 g	pasta (e.g. Spaghettoni)

How it's done

Sauce

Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the onions and garlic, sauté for approx. 5 mins. Add the courgettes, season, steam at a low heat for approx. 1 hr., stirring every 10 mins. with a wooden spoon and crushing the courgettes gently. Add pesto and lemon juice, season and simmer briefly.

Pasta

Cook the pasta in boiling salted water until just al dente, drain and reserve approx. ½ dl of the cooking water. Add the pasta and cooking water to the sauce, mix and finish cooking the pasta.

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