When I feel like having pasta for dinner but don’t want to have it with sauce or any meat, I love to eat pasta with zucchini.

This is a simple recipe to follow. I like to use Goya Chicken Bouillon but if you don’t have any bouillon on hand you can use salt, or you can also replace it with chicken or vegetable stock.
Use a cheese grater with large holes to get large pieces of the zucchini.

Cheese grater with large holes.

Ingredients         4-6 Servings

• 1 lb box of penne pasta,or any other short pasta
• 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
• 1 shallot, roughly chopped
• 2 medium zucchini, grated
• 1 T olive oil (plus extra virgin olive oil to drizzle)
• 1 packet of powdered chicken bouillon
• 1/2 c  white wine

1. Cook the pasta until it is al dente. Remove and drain, reserving some of the water in a cup. Set pasta aside.
2. In a large pan, add olive oil, garlic, and shallot and sauté until soft.
3. Add zucchini, white wine, and sprinkle the powdered chicken bouillon over the zucchini.
4. Cook until zucchini is tender, adding some of the reserved pasta water if it starts to get dry.
5. When the zucchini is fully cooked, add the pasta into the pan and mix thoroughly, over a low heat.
6. You can either drizzle some extra virgin olive oil over it while it is still in the pan and mix again, or you can drizzle over each plate before serving.

Pasta with zucchini.

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