Creamy Pasta With Courgettes And Saffron

A super easy and quick pasta dish with a creamy saffron sauce and courgettes. Saffron is an incredibly flavour and it makes for the best pasta sauce!

I grew up eating this for lunch so often it is my favourite spring dish it is super flavourful and also easy and quick to make!

INGREDIENTS

• Pasta
• Courgettes
• Plant milk
• Cornstarch
• Saffron
• Olive oil
• Garlic
• Lemon zest

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS

• Sauté the garlic clove in some olive oil and water, then add the chopped courgettes and cook for 5/10 minutes until cooked but still a bit crunchy, then remove from the pan.

• Cook your spaghetti al dente keeping some water aside for later.
• Mix plant milk with cornstarch and add it to the pan on low heat, add the saffron and keep mixing until it starts to thicken

• Add the pasta and some past water, the courgettes and keep mixing until nice and creamy!
• Season with salt and pepper and some lemon zest!

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Creamy Pasta With Courgettes And Saffron

super easy and quick pasta dish with a creamy saffron sauce and courgettes. Saffron is an incredibly flavour and it makes for the best pasta sauce!

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 13 minutes mins

Total Time 18 minutes mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian, Mediterranean

Servings 2 people

Calories 467 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 200 g spaghetti
• 2 courgettes
• 1 cup plant milk without added sugar
• 2 tbsp cornstarch
• 1 sachet powdered saffron
• 1 garlic clove
• Olive oil to taste
• Lemon zest to taste

Instructions

 

• Sauté the garlic clove in some olive oil and water, then add the chopped courgettes and cook for 5/10 minutes until cooked but still a bit crunchy, then remove from the pan.
• Cook your spaghetti al dente keeping some water aside for later. Mix plant milk with cornstarch and add it to the pan on low heat, add the saffron and keep mixing until it starts to thicken, add the pasta and some past water, the courgettes and keep mixing until nice and creamy! Season with salt and pepper and some lemon zest!

Nutrition

Calories: 467kcal

Keyword courgettes, Pasta, saffron

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