The Summer Pasta You Don't Wanna Miss!

A beautiful summer zucchini pasta or honestly just use this video and this recipe to just inspire you to make a pasta dish using whatever vegetables you have right now, maybe you went to your local farmer's market and they were having a great deal on zucchini because they're in season and they're just kind of booming everywhere and you want to make this dish, maybe you just have some in your garden that you don't know what to do with, this is a really great one it's very simple very easy but it's very delicious and when things are in season they just taste so incredible that the zucchini you're using today tastes completely different than the zucchini you were using back in March. So I want to show you how to make this dish because as I said simple it's classic it's delicious and you will love it. You're going to take some extra virgin olive oil in a nice large skillet a good amount of it I would say about three tablespoons don't be shy because this is going to be part of what makes your sauce so incredible. Everything with the exception of the shallot and the garlic is from the garden. So these are the zucchini from our garden typically you want to pick them this big but believe it or not this was this big yesterday and that's how big they got overnight because it's been wet and really hot so great environment. These are a mix of peppers I've got cubanelle pepper and banana pepper they're all sweet I've got some shallots these are my home canned tomatoes you could just use some crushed tomatoes or like a plum tomato canned you're good to go and it's delicious and it's very simple. I take the zucchini and my peppers slice everything up I'm not making the zucchini too small I'm going to kind of cut them into about that size because I don't want it to disappear completely in my sauce I want them to be you know pretty substantial because I think that's what's going to make this taste so good and some of them I'll leave them a little bit bigger as long as the thickness is the same it'll it'll all cook evenly and I'll pretty much do the same thing to my peppers I'm not going to cut them too small and I'll probably just cut my shallots into like little half moons just going to keep dicing. Zucchini peppers and shallots in the oil beautiful and it already smells just wonderful and fantastic you can see I've cut everything into pretty rustic shapes I love that a good pinch of salt this is what I call proper home cooking what does that mean that means there's no real I mean there's sort of a measurement which I'll leave for you but there's no real there's no fussiness about it doesn't have to be precise is it one zucchini is it two zucchini it just depends on the size is it one pepper or is it half a pepper depends on your liking it's the kind of food that really speaks to the soul and when you're cooking with you know in season ingredients nothing you make will ever be anything less than absolutely delicious so I want to encourage you to cook more but cook more simply less ingredients less fussiness less steps less things because guess what you'll enjoy the process more your food will always be infinitely more delicious and when you're cooking with in season ingredients your mind is blown by how much more delicious the food is and most of the time how much more cost effective it is that zucchini is going to cost you cents compared to when you buy them in say March so keep that in mind because it's also really good in the wallet as well I'm going to let these cook for about seven to eight minutes these are looking so beautiful and if you could just smell it you'd understand my excitement I'm going to come in here with a couple of cloves of garlic that I've just minced up you can leave them whole and take them out if you want to I'm going to take some beautiful garden basil that smells sensational if you haven't noticed summertime food summertime in general is my favorite summer foods ah my favorite it's my favorite food is alive you don't have to do much to it it just always tastes good it's fantastic it has color texture just unbelievable this smells incredible as is and if you wanted to by the way this right here would be a fantastic side dish it would be a fantastic thing to serve alongside anything just as it is that's how delicious it comes up it comes together it's wonderful I'll let this go for like not long I'm going to let it go for just a few seconds in the meantime I want to just add a little bit of cracked pepper black pepper and zucchini go really well together but always add it to the stage of like when you're sautéing because pepper is a spice and just remember like any spices they come to life when you add them to a fat or a skillet to wake them up to get those aromas going it smells infinitely different when you add it at this stage versus on top of something so just give it a second it just literally needs a couple of seconds smells unbelievable I can already smell that that raw garlic flavor has kind of cooked down a bit I'm going to come in here with some of my jar tomatoes I'm not going to add all of it because I don't want this to be inherently like too tomatoey I just kind of wanted to help make a sauce and these like I said on my hand not my hand but we can these every summer adding a little bit like that turn it down because the water that I'm going to add to this at the end with the pasta liquid is going to be the only liquid I add to this and I'm just going to let this cook for the same amount of time that it takes for my pasta to cook which coincidentally pasta water is ready add that in hit it with a good pinch of salt remember that's the only time you have to season the pasta itself I'm going to keep this on a gentle heat even though I'm going to add a little bit more basil because those tomatoes are not seasoned I'll keep this on a gentle heat that as it's cooking and we all bring it together at the last minute cranking the heat up pasta is really nice and al dente I'm pulling it about a minute before it's actually perfectly al dente because I really want to give it a minute to cook in the sauce with some of the starchy water and really pull it all together and remember what I always tell you when it comes to finishing your sauces with a bit of starchy water don't be afraid to use more than you think at first it's going to seem really liquidy and like it's never going to come together but remember your pasta is going to continue to you know sort of let out its starch and then thicken that sauce but what it does in turn is it just creates the most flavorful and delicious base that your pasta will absorb so I'm just going to cook this all together for a couple of minutes and then it is ready to be served look at how gorgeous and stunning that is absolutely perfect I'm going to come in here with some grated parm and by the way one of the best things ever is that your grocery store at least mine anyway now grates fresh parm which is fantastic I'd go through it like crazy but it is fantastic look how gorgeous this is this is what I would call a perfect pasta primavera because it's essentially just you know pasta with whatever you've got growing and it's absolutely beautiful you can make different versions of this but regardless if you're using in season ingredients it's always going to taste fantastic I'm going to give it a go because my mouth is salivating if you couldn't tell and I want a piece of that zucchini right there with that rigatoni right there a little bit that sauce right there it smells so good hot though that is so delicious and do not be afraid of your vegetables becoming sort of melting into the sauce and falling apart that's what makes it so delicious that's what gives you the sauce so much flavor otherwise your sauce would just have a bite of this and a bite of that but when they melt together they infuse into the sauce and they're so fantastic admittedly not the most beautiful plate of pasta you've ever made one of the most delicious for sure go to laurainthekitchen.com for the written recipe just check the description down below for everything you need to know I will catch you in the next one!