A quick and easy sauce to accompany a nice pasta dish.
Prep time: ~30 mins | Serve: 4
Ingredients:
- 500g Rigatoni
- 2 Courgettes
- 300g of Spinach
- half of a large onion
- A Chilli Pepper
- Olive Oil
- Pinch of Fresh Mint
- Pinch of Salt
Preparation:
- Put the water for the pasta to boil
- Heat up some olive oil in a pan over medium heat
- Chop the onion finely
- Add the chilli and chop that too into thin round discs
- Put the onion and chilli in the pan
- While the onion goldens up, chop the courgettes up
- Wash the spinach
- Add the spinach to the pan
- When the spinach have shrunk, add the diced courgettes
- Keep stirring until the vegetables are cooked
- By this point the water should be boiling, add the rigatoni and start the timer as indicated minus 2 minutes
- Add some oil to the blender
- Add some mint to the blender
- Add the cooked vegetables into the blender
- Check for salt, add if needed
- If you want you can add a pinch of pepper to the sauce
- Blend everything up
- Wait for the timer to go off
- Drain the pasta add the sauce to it, stir and leave on the hob the remaining 2 minutes.
- Serve!
Tips:
- Check the guide on how to cook pasta if unsure
- You can do away with the mint if you don’t like it
- Remove the sauce from any source of heat after serving to preserve it better
- Add parmesan to the dish for extra tasty heaviness
Recommendations:
- I usually go for Barilla, DeCecco or Voiello Pasta
- I don’t bother peeling the zucchini
Possible Substitutions:
- Can experiment with other green veggies