Pasta with Courgette Sauce & Spinach Balls Recipe
A delicious courgette pasta served with crispy spinach balls, featuring pasta tossed in a courgette, garlic, and chili sauce. Accompanied by Carluccio's spinach balls, seasoned with parmesan, garlic, and a hint of nutmeg.
Ingredients
Balls
- black pepper (to taste)
- 1 whole egg
- 1 cloves garlic
- 0.25 tsp ground nutmeg
- 25 grams parmesan or pecorino cheese
- salt (to taste)
- 1 slices brown bread
- 250 grams Spinach
- 1 . sunflower oil (for frying)
Pasta
- black pepper (to taste)
- 2 whole courgette
- 1 whole fresh chilli
- 2 cloves garlic
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 30 grams parmesan or pecorino cheese
- 150 grams penne pasta
- salt (to taste)
Bread
- 1 stick garlic bread
Instructions
- wash the spinach, remove the stalks, wilt the spinach in a pan, cook for a minute or two
- remove from the heat, squeeze as much liquid as possible from the spinach, chop the spinach finely,add to the bowl, add the spices
- peel and crush the garlic using the garlic crusher or chop finely, add to the bowl,using a food processor blend the bread into fresh breadcrumbs, add to the bowl
- finely grate the parmesan, add to the spinach mixture, stir to mix the ingredients, season with salt and pepper
- add the egg(s) to a bowl, beat the egg,add the egg to the spinach and stir, the mixture should be a binding consistency, if the mixture is to wet add additional breadcrumbs
- set the oven to 220C 425F or gas mark 7
- half fill a medium pan with water and boil, add a spot of olive oil and a pinch of salt to the boiling water,add the pasta to the boiling water and cook until tender but with a slight bite, while the pasta is cooking
- roll the spinach mixture into walnut size balls, heat about 2 cms of frying oil in a frying pan, shallow fry till golden brown, place on kitchen paper, keep warm
- put the garlic bread on the baking tray and place in the oven follow cooking instructions on packaging
- heat the oil in the frying pan, wash and finely chop the chilli,add to the frying pan, cook for a minute or two, peel and crush the garlic using the garlic crusher or chop finely, add the garlic to the frying pan
- wash trim and grate the courgette, add to the frying pan
- finely grate the parmesan, add to the frying pan, taste and season with salt and pepper if necessary
- reserve a few tbsps of cooking liquid from the pasta, drain the pasta, add some of the reserved pasta liquid to the courgette mixture to make a thick sauce
- remove garlic bread from the oven
- place the pasta in a serving bowl, place the spinach balls on top of the pasta, serve with garlic bread
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