Food,  Pasta,  Vegetables

Broccoli Pasta

September 14, 2010 /

I have been in the mood for pasta lately. Do you ever get in moods like that? Sometimes I go through these phases where all I want is pasta. Honestly, there are SO many different meals you can make with pasta! It is so versatile! You can make it vegetarian or with meat, cold or hot, and there are so many different varieties!

So, this dish below was just a dish that I came up with from the ingredients I have in my refrigerator. It was simple and easy and always the best part, pretty healthy as well!

Ingredients for Broccoli Pasta:

Angel Hair pasta

1 Broccoli head

1 Zucchini

1/2 of an Onion

Tomatoes (5 cherry, and 1/4 cup of tomato puree)

Garlic

Mozzarella

Olive Oil

Red pepper flake

Salt and Pepper to taste

Chop Onion roughly
make sure to wash all your veggies!

So, first off lets start of right…

with a cocktail!

(Diet Dr. Pepper and Wild Turkey Whiskey…yes I am a girl and I enjoy Whiskey haha)

Start cooking your angel hair pasta in a medium-sized pot. I was only cooking for 2 with this dish so I didn’t make a lot of pasta, but depending on how many people you want to serve…adjust accordingly.

In a large frying pan, place olive oil and garlic and cook garlic until it starts to brown. Toss in onion as soon as the garlic starts to take on some color.

add in red pepper flake
add puree and zucchini

Now this puree is something that I made from the tomatoes I had in the garden and all I did was cook the tomatoes down and puree them up so that I would have a tomato base when I needed it later on down the road. I really suggest to anyone who uses tomatoes a lot to do this. Really handy!

add broccoli (I like my broccoli to be cooked but also to still have a crunch)
add cherry tomatoes

Cook the ingredients until the cherry tomatoes start to almost lose their skin, but not entirely. Want them still to have shape.

place on top of cooked angel hair and add mozzarella balls, serve hot!

Enjoy!

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