I love pasta and I really enjoy throwing together a delicious off the cuff dish based on what beautiful in season vegetables are at my grocery store or farmers market. I saw gorgeous mushrooms, asparagus, an italian yellow zucchini (which I’d never seen before, so I had to try it!) and of course Meyer lemons! Pasta was calling out to me!
Box spaghetti
12 ounces button mushrooms sliced
2 cups chopped asparagus
1 Italian yellow zucchini
1 small shallot thinly sliced
1/2 red onion thinly sliced
3 Meyer lemons – juiced
Zest of one lemon
4 garlic cloves minced
2 tablespoons dijon mustard
2 teas. oregano
1 teas. onion salt
2 tablespoon tamari soy sauce
6 tablespoon olive oil ) divided.
Directions:
Put large pot of water to boil pasta at onset — 2-3 pinch of salt
Add 2 tablespoons olive oil to separate sauce pan, heat
Add chopped mushrooms & stir, saute a few minutes
Add onion, shallot & stir
Add yellow zucchini stir
Add tamari soy sauce
Add minced garlic, stir well
Add asparagus, lemon zest and stir
Make your sauce:
4 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons dijon mustard
3 lemons juiced
2 teas. oregano
1 teas. onion salt
Whisk!
Cook past al dente ( 2 minutes shy of what box says)
Before draining pasta, reserve 1 cup of pasta water to thicken sauce
Put pasta in sauce pan with all your veggies.
Add sauce, and then mix 1/2 cup of pasta water in bowl that had sauce, whisk and add to sauce pan.
Add salt & pepper & plenty of vegan parmesan cheese
MANGIA!!!!!
I hope you love this beautiful fresh sumptuous pasta primavera!
Feel free to add whatever veggies you love — these are veggies I used were the freshest and in season.
Lindsey is an accomplished plant-based chef, professional actress and cooking teacher who is lending her talents to the movement of bringing health-supportive, plant-based cuisine into the mainstream. She will introduce you to the wonderful world of plant-based goodness, that can transform your physical and ultimately spiritual and mental wellness.
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