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Pasta With Simple Zucchini Sauce

Recipe by Neil Perry from Neil Perry - Fresh And Fast

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The flowers, a delight of the Summer, are often stuffed and deep fried. Durum wheat is a physically hard wheat most important in the making of pasta. It has been grown for centuries in Italy specifically for this purpose though a lot these days come from America.

Serves 2

Ingredients

200 g orecchiette pasta
3 large zucchinis
Extra virgin olive oil for cooking
6 whole anchovies
3 garlic cloves
Sea salt
Freshly ground black pepper
Fried chilli flake
Fresh parmesan to serve

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Method

Bring a large pot of water to the boil. Add the pasta and cook “al dente”.
Meanwhile, grate the zucchinis and place aside.
In a large frying pan, heat plenty of olive oil and add the anchovies, crushed garlic and sea salt.
Fry for about 3 minutes, stirring continuously until the anchovies start to soften.
Sprinkle in the chilli flakes and freshly ground pepper, followed by the grated zucchinis and a dash more olive oil.
Stir for a further 2 minutes.
When the pasta is cooked (it should take 10 minutes), drain well and add to the sauce.
Toss the pasta through the sauce and spoon onto plates.
Grate fresh Parmesan over the top and finish with freshly ground pepper.

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Notes & Tips

“Al dente” literally means to “to the tooth”. This describes the perfectly cooked pasta. It should present a little resistance when bitten.

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What do you think?

Sharon265 9 months ago

Will try this tonight. It looks like the one he cooked on master chef.

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Alan123 11 months ago

simply awesome,and awsomely simple.thx

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Kelly with fat belly October 2010

Awesionmee

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ripper01 January 2010

This is delicious! and so easy to do - perfect for a week night meal on the go. I used extra strong parmesan and it tasted wonderful with the anchovie.

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Kevin85 January 2010

i make a similar recipe but replace the anchovy with bacon

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Constance6 October 2009

must try it soon

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cha-mone May 2009

Isn't zucchini already plural? Is that what all the groaning was about?

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IC11 April 2009

Friends have given me lots of home groan zucchinis. Didnt know what to do with them. Will try this one for sure.

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pretty March 2009

I have made this past dish before without the anchovies. Im adding the anchovies tonight.

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RB136 March 2009

nice and easy... yummmm

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smile January 2009

Looks great and encouraged by all the other comments,MF73 being the only one who seems to have made it so far...so will let you know how mine goes.

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MF73 January 2009

I never knew anchovies could taste so good.

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KM128 January 2009

I love this, I'm really happy to have the 'proper' recipe, as before I had scribbled it down on a scrap of paper when watching the TV. I'll be making it this week as we have heaps of zucchinis in the garden.

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Kim Maree January 2009

This receipe caught my eye as a way of getting my kids to eat more vegies because they love pasta.

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MF57 December 2008

it looks tasty and fresh and will make it in the next couple of days

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AG10 December 2008

i think i'm going to try this one for sure! thanks Neil for the idea.

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DO2 December 2008

what a great quick tasty meal

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