🍝 Pasta with roasted vegetables and spicy sauce
A flavorful, light pasta dish full of colors 🌈 ideal for a summer or vegetarian lunch 🧄🥬🔥
Introduction
The pasta with roasted vegetables is a tasty and healthy first course that captivates with its vibrant colors, the sweetness of oven-caramelized vegetables, and the spicy touch of the tomato and lemon sauce.
Perfect with bronze-extruded pasta shapes, but also great with curcuma pasta or pasta with 4 flavors, this recipe combines lightness and flavor in a simple and quick way.
A vegetarian delight that smells of summer and goodness! ☀️🌿
📝 Ingredients (for 4 people)
- 350 g of bronze-extruded pasta
(great shapes: caserecce, fusilli, lumaconi) - 1 large onion
- 1 red bell pepper
- 1 yellow bell pepper
- 2 zucchini
- 1 clove of garlic
- Fresh basil to taste
- 2 tablespoons of tomato concentrate
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- Toasted cumin seeds
- Chili powder to taste
- Extra virgin olive oil to taste
- Salt and pepper to taste
👩🍳 Preparation
1. Roast the vegetables
- Wash the bell peppers and zucchini, cut them into chunks.
- Slice the onion into thick rings and chop the garlic.
- Place all the vegetables on a grill set on a baking sheet.
- Drizzle with a little EVO oil and bake in a preheated oven at 200°C for 40-45 minutes.
- Only after cooking is complete, add salt and the chopped basil.
2. Cook the pasta
- Meanwhile, bring plenty of salted water to a boil and cook the pasta al dente.
3. Prepare the spicy sauce
- In a bowl, mix:
👉 2 tablespoons of tomato concentrate
👉 lemon juice
👉 toasted and chopped cumin seeds
👉 a drizzle of EVO oil, chili, salt
4. Plate
- Drain the pasta, toss it with the sauce.
- Add the roasted vegetables and a final sprinkle of black pepper.
- Serve hot or even warm; it’s perfect in any season!
💡 Tips
- You can enrich the recipe with crumbled feta or fresh goat cheese.
- For a crunchy touch, add toasted almonds or sesame seeds.
- Also great cold as a pasta salad.
The image of the dishes is purely indicative and may not necessarily correspond exactly to the recipe
