The strozzapreti with courgettes and saffron I’m a delightful first course that celebrates the colors and flavors ofsummer. A quick and easy recipe to be made: while the pasta, prepares the seasoning and here is a dish that everyone will like.
Ingrediants
- 320 g of strozzapreti
- 250 g of small courgettes with the flower
- 1 sachet of saffron
- 1 shallot
- 2 sprigs of thyme
- 4 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- salt
- pepper
With the zucchini they can be prepared colored first dishes like these strozzapreti with courgettes and saffron: here we used small zucchini with their flower, tender and tasty.
Combined with other ingredients they are even tastier and you could make a whole book just with the recipes of pasta dishes with zucchini! A winning combination, which you can find in zucchini and speck pasta and fusilli with pancetta and zucchini, is the one with cured meats. But even with fish, you can’t mess around. Do you have any doubts? Then try our recipe for tuna and courgette pasta or shrimp and courgette pasta or bavette with clams and courgettes.
On the choice of pasta shape, space for imagination. We have used them here with strozzapreti, but you can replace them with le linguine as with the half penne. However, the success of this dish is guaranteed!
OTHER TASTY RECIPES: Pasta with courgettes, courgette carbonara, Spaghetti alla Nerano
How to prepare: Strozzapreti with courgettes and saffron
- Execution
- easy
- Preparation time
- 15 min
- Cooking time
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15 min
- Portions
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4
How to prepare: Strozzapreti with courgettes and saffron
Start preparing the strozzapreti with zucchini and saffron by boiling the water for the pasta. While this comes to a boil, separate the flowers from the courgettes. Peel the courgettes and cut them obliquely into chunks. Then clean the flowers by removing the base (this will also remove the pistil). Chop the shallot and sauté it in a pan with the oil and the chopped courgette flowers.
Dip the strozzapreti in the water and cook for the time indicated on the package. While the pasta is cooking, add the courgettes to the courgette flowers, wet with 2 ladles of pasta cooking water and perfume with the thyme leaves. Season with salt and pepper and cook everything until the courgettes become tender.
Drain the pasta al dente, recovering a little of the cooking water, transfer it to the pan with the zucchini and flowers, add the saffron dissolved in a little cooking water from the pasta, raise the heat and sauté everything for a couple of minutes to flavor well. The strozzapreti with courgettes and saffron are ready.
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