# Creamy Zucchini Pasta

A creamy pasta dish featuring fried zucchini blended into a pesto-like sauce with garlic, mint, and cheese, served with papardelle.

- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- zucchinis
- Olive oil
- garlic
- Pecorino Romano cheese
- Parmesan cheese
- dry mint
- papardelle
- pasta water

## Instructions

1. Cut zucchinis into rounds.
2. Add olive oil to a pan, generously.
3. Add all the zucchinis to the pan.
4. Season the zucchinis.
5. Fully cook the zucchinis, flattening them out to color and soften them.
6. While zucchinis cook, smash some garlic.
7. Grate Pecorino Romano and Parmesan cheese.
8. Take off a few cooked zucchini pieces for decorating and texture.
9. Put the remaining cooked zucchinis into a blender.
10. Add garlic, cheese, and a tiny bit of mint to the blender.
11. Add the rest of the oil from the pan into the blender.
12. Blend until you have a nice zucchini cream.
13. Reheat pre-cooked papardelle.
14. Add the zucchini cream to the papardelle and toss.
15. If the cream is too thick, add some reserved pasta water.
16. Serve with the reserved zucchini pieces on top.
17. Garnish with more cheese.

## Equipment

- Ninja blender with smoothie attachment

## Tips

- Do it exactly the way I did this.
- Put the dry mint.
- Put the garlic.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtube.com/shorts/twm_PL-k4Yc?si=hOCO5EdIzGtkv2Pc
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/94f6d776-5945-45ac-9dc0-b9f75ed5c86f
- Extracted: 2025-12-22

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