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Serves
4
Author Notes
Mediate this recipe as summer season in a bowl. The sweet corn, bursting cherry tomatoes, and tender zucchini lighten up a luscious, ravishing bowl of pasta. Proof that meatless dishes also can moreover be rapidly, easy, and a pleasure to eat! —Gena Hamshaw
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Test Kitchen-Approved
Substances
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2 pints
cherry tomatoes
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2
ears corn, shucked and kernels nick abet off
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2
expansive zucchini or summer season squash, sliced in half lengthwise after which chopped into 1/2 plod thick slices
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1
expansive crimson onion, chopped
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2
cloves garlic, crushed
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4 tablespoons
olive oil, divided into 3 tbsp and 1 tbsp
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8 ounces
penne or farfalle pasta
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1/3 cup
torn basil leaves
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1 tablespoon
original oregano leaves
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Impolite salt and murky pepper to style
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1/4 cup
pine nuts (now not mandatory)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Build of residing a pot of boiled water on the variety to boil.
- Toss vegetables and garlic with olive oil and season well with salt and pepper. Again the corn separate, on the change hand. Divide all vegetables save corn onto baking sheets and initiating roasting them for 35-40 minutes, or till they’re vegetables are turning into sweet, golden, and a limited caramelized (to get this enact, you’ll are seeking to steer definite of tossing them around too valuable as they put together dinner). Fifteen minutes earlier than the discontinuance of the roasting process, add the corn, which cooks a limited bit of faster than the change vegetables!
- Whenever you’re utilizing the pine nuts, now would possibly perchance well well be the time to toast them gently in a expansive frying pan space over medium heat. Scurry them continuously, and exhaust away them as soon as they’re turning into golden.
- Cook dinner pasta till tender nonetheless a limited al dente. Drain and return to pot, reserving a tiny amount of the cooking liquid.
- Add the roast vegetables, alongside with final 1 tbsp olive oil and a shrimp bit of the cooking liquid, to the pasta. Toss in the basil and oregano, and aid, topped with toasted pine nuts if desired.
- Designate: most original pastas enact hang egg or milk. So advise any of the favored dry brands, love Barilla or De Cecco. Total wheat pasta when you’re feeling crunchy. And when you occur to be making dinner for a vegan with a gluten hypersensitive response (or any individual with a gluten hypersensitive response), don’t freak out. You would possibly perchance perchance well well most definitely advise brown rice or quinoa pasta in save of the typical pasta. They’re both a critical option for gluten free diners, and in my ask, valuable tastier and more official than total wheat pasta!