Easy to say "pasta with zucchini"! Do you think it is too banal a dish to be worthy of merit? I want to change your mind by letting you try new combinations and textures. Discover my proposal!
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Identity Card of the Recipe
- 155 KCal Calories per serving
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Ingrediants
- 320 g of wholemeal pasta
- 50 ml of milk
- 1 pinch of spicy paprika or sweet paprika
- 100 g of burrata
- Q.b. of pepper
- Q.b. of salt
- Untreated lemon zest
- 10 g of pine nuts
- A few basil leaves
- 300 g of zucchini
- 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
Materials Needed
- Casserole
- Colander
- Immersion blender
- Cooking pan
- Becker
Preparation
- Wash the courgettes and trim them. Reduce 2 courgettes into chunks and a courgette into julienne strips.
- Collect the courgettes into small pieces in a pan and sauté them with a drop of oil, salt and pepper.
- Marinate the zucchini julienne with lemon juice, salt, pepper and oil.
- Meanwhile, fill a saucepan with plenty of water and bring to a boil.
- When the water boils, add the wholemeal pasta and boil it until cooked. We recommend cooking it al dente.
- In a pan, toast the pine nuts to release the aroma. Chop the pine nuts coarsely with the knife.
Did you know that
Pine nuts can be replaced with coarsely chopped almonds.- In a beaker, collect the burrata cut into pieces, the courgettes, the hot milk, the lemon zest and the basil: immerse the mixer and blend until a creamy sauce is obtained.
- Drain the pasta al dente and allow it to flavor in the zucchini sauce.
- Serve finishing the dish with raw zucchini julienne, spicy paprika and toasted pine nuts.
Alice's comment - PersonalCooker
I bet you haven't tried a zucchini pasta like this yet! If you want to overdo it, you can enrich it with fresh tuna soaked in a lemon marinade: try this combination too!Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe
Pasta with Zucchini and Burrata is a recipe that belongs to the group of first courses.
It has a significant energy content, even if the choice of wholemeal pasta and the small quantity of oil compensate for the caloric density of the burrata.
Energy is mainly supplied by lipids, followed by carbohydrates and finally by proteins; fatty acids are mainly unsaturated, complex carbohydrates and peptides have a medium-high biological value.
Fiber is very abundant and cholesterol is not very relevant.
Pasta with Zucchini and Burrata is a food that can also be consumed by people who are overweight and suffer from metabolic pathologies, as long as the weights of Alice's recipe are respected and the portions are adequate for the case. Containing lactose, it can be poorly tolerated by subjects intolerant to milk sugar.
The intake of gluten requires to exclude it from the diet for celiac disease.
It lends itself to the vegetarian philosophy but not to the vegan one.
The abundance of fiber can increase intestinal peristalsis.
The average portion of Pasta with Zucchini and Burrata (cooked) is about 200-250 g (310-390 kcal).
The nutritional values on the side refer to 100 grams of cooked food
