Angel Hair Pasta with Zucchini and Tomatoes combines spiralized zucchini with pasta, a great way to lighten a pasta dish!
Angel hair pasta tossed with summer zucchini and tomatoes fresh from the garden. The perfect meatless meal you’ll be craving again and again. Serve this with plenty of Parmigiano Reggiano!
I love combining spiralized zucchini with pasta, it’s a great way to lighten a pasta dish, and you’re still getting real pasta which I often crave when I am eating zoodles alone.
This recipe is a dish I often whip up in the summer and it’s great because it takes less than 20 minutes to make. For those on gluten-free diets, use brown rice pasta instead. I love this simple weeknight meatless dish, if you wish to add protein, this would be great with shrimp or chicken!
Angel Hair with Zucchini and Tomatoes
Ingredients
- 2 7 oz zucchini, spiralized or julienne
- 4 cloves garlic chopped
- 2 shallots diced
- 3 medium tomatoes diced (or 2 cups grape, halved)
- 4 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil
- Kosher salt and black pepper to taste
- pinch crushed red pepper flakes to taste
- 8 ounces angel hair pasta wheat or gluten-free
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley or basil
- 1/4 cup low-sodium vegetable or chicken broth
Instructions
- In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook pasta according to instructions.
- While pasta is cooking, in a large saute pan, heat pan on medium-high flame, add oil when pan is hot.
- Add garlic and shallots to the pan and saute about 1 minute, until soft.
- Add zucchini and season with salt and pepper. Cook about 1 1/2 minutes, add tomatoes, crushed red pepper flakes, parsley, chicken broth and adjust salt and pepper. Stir and cook for 1 more minute.
- Remove from heat.
- Drain pasta when done reserving some of the water and and toss the pasta well with zucchini and tomatoes. Add pasta water if needed and serve with grated Parmesan (optional).
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This was absolutely fantastic 👏. Gina you are amazing!!! I have made many of your recipes and they have ALL been fantastic and delicious. Your recipes are not complicated and use readily accessible ingredients.
Thanks Susan!
I love this dish, but use asparagus instead of zucchini to crisp it up. Occasionally I’ll use feta instead of the parm.
Im not sure how i missed this dish before but its great! Its tastes like a lighter more flavorful pasta dish! Even
my kids loved it! Cant wait to make it again. Thank you
My family loved this dish! It was so easy and delicious. I need to double the recipe because we didn’t have seconds :)! Thanks for another great recipe!
Glad you all enjoyed it!
Gina – loved this dish with all the textures. Love all your recipes. What spiralizer do you have to get your noodles so thin???
This is one of my favorite recipes! For my ww friends on purple if you use jovial brown rice pasta it’s a 0 point food. I ended up with a total of 2 points per serving after putting all of the ingredients into the app!!! (Parmesan adds more points)
very good and so easy. next time, i will start the tomatoes with thegarlic &onion before adding the zucchini so it gives the tomatoes time to break down
Good idea! Thanks.
We used whole wheat pasta to further reduce the (WW purple) points. This was OK the first day, but when it had time to rest overnight in the fridge, it was even better. My daughter didn’t like the two textures — spiralized zucchini and pasta — but by the second day, you couldn’t tell the difference. Sauce flavors also had some time to blend. We’ll try it again!
I really enjoyed this! I will definitely make it again. It was lite yet filling. I did add some chicken to my dish and folded it into the veggies once cooked to absorb some of the liquid. It would be great either way.
Awesome recipe! Tasted so good, plus I got my kids to eat veggies!
I found this one pretty bland…
Oh yummy & easy! I wanted to use up a little bit of wine so added that. Used big cherry tomatoes from the garden. Def a keeper!
Gina, is the 8 oz of pasta cooked pasta or uncooked pasta??
Made this tonight and it was so delicious and light. I used fresh basil in place of parsley and added some marinated chicken pieces. Will definitely make this again.
This was seriously so good. Such simple ingredients and full of flavor. My family loves it! Make sure you add fresh Parmesan cheese to your serving. It takes it to the next level!