Recipe: Perfect Ricotta Zucchini Pasta 🍝

Ricotta Zucchini Pasta 🍝. A one-pot pasta that strikes that hard-to-find balance between creamy and light, this meatless meal is satisfying without weighing you down. Fresh ricotta is the base for a silky and comforting cheese sauce, and zucchini brings texture, color and flavor that complement the pasta. Finish the dish with basil and lemon juice at the end of cooking for a bright pop of flavor that makes this dish.

Add oil, lemon zest, and zucchini and toss to combine. Add cooked pasta to zucchini in skillet and turn heat to medium-high. Add a little more pasta water if necessary. You can cook Ricotta Zucchini Pasta 🍝 using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Ricotta Zucchini Pasta 🍝

1. It's 6 of zucchini, peeled and sliced into coins.
2. It's 1 of onion, sliced.
3. It's of olive oil.
4. It's 6 cloves of garlic, minced.
5. You need 1/8 teaspoon of black pepper.
6. Prepare 1 can of chicken broth, low sodium.
7. It's 1 teaspoon of basil leaves.
8. Prepare of salt.
9. It's 16 oz of pasta (your favorite!).
10. It's 2 cups of whole milk ricotta cheese.
11. It's to taste of parmesan cheese.

Mix the ricotta, parmesan, lemon zest, salt and pepper. Mix enough of the cooking water into the ricotta mixture to form a sauce before adding the cooked pasta and zucchini and tossing to coat evenly. Mix in the basil and enjoy! This is a simple dish at its best - pasta, zucchini, garlic, basil, and ricotta cheese.

Ricotta Zucchini Pasta 🍝 step by step

1. Heat olive oil in a pan.......
2. Place your cut zucchini and sliced onion into olive oil, sauté for several minutes........
3. Add to zucchini and onion your minced garlic and black pepper, continue to sauté for several more minutes.......
4. Now add your chicken broth and basil leaves, bring to a boil then reduce heat and continue to stir......
5. Meanwhile, boil your favorite pasta, don’t forget to salt your water !.
6. Drain pasta well, then add cooked pasta to zucchini mixture.......stir lightly.......
7. Add into pasta / zucchini mix your ricotta cheese, stir on low heat until pasta and veggies are completely coated with the ricotta cheese.......remove from heat.......
8. Sprinkle Parmesan cheese onto each serving and enjoy 😉!!.

The ricotta cheese essentially becomes the sauce as it melts over the pasta with a little starchy cooking liquid and the zucchini bulks up the serving so you won't be reaching for a second helping. Add other veggies if you like. Pasta with Zucchini and Ricotta is an easy-going dish. As is usual with Italian home recipes, measurements can vary tremendously. You'll find ones calling for lots more ricotta, for example.