Pasta with Zucchini Sauce
The most perfect summer pasta is here and it's super easy too.
Ingredients
- 3 zucchini
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp shredded cheese (or nutritional yeast if you are vegan)
- 1 tbsp lemon
- 35 gr. cashews
- 320 gr. pasta of your choice
- 150 ml water from the boiled pasta
- salt
- black pepper
Instructions
- Start by dicing the 1.5 zucchini. Cut the rest into very thin sticks.
- Pour the olive oil into a non-stick pan. Once heated, throw in the diced courgettes and the onion. Cook for 10 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for another 1-2 minutes. Set aside.
- In the meantime, boil your pasta in salted water according to the instructions on the package. Two minutes before your pasta is done, throw in the zucchini sticks.
- Once you have drained the pasta together with the zucchini sticks, keep some of the water.
- Put the zucchini, onion and garlic in the blender. Add the cashews after soaking them for 20 minutes in hot water. Pour in the grated cheese and lemon juice.
- Add salt and black pepper and the pasta water. Throw in half to begin with and you'll see.
- Mix your pasta with the sauce and enjoy.