For this week’s three day blogging marathon # 46, my theme is lemons. I will be posting 3 days of lemon recipes. For the first day I have very easy, quick and yummy pasta. Spaghetti is cooked until al dente, tossed in lemon sauce and served hot with or without any vegetables.
The first time I made this pasta, I served it with sautéed shrimp and we loved it. The second time I made it for lunch and as I was the only one eating, and since I did not have any other side dish to serve the spaghetti with, I added some roasted mushrooms and zucchini. I liked both these vegetables in this spaghetti. For vegetarians, mushrooms and spaghetti is a good option and if one wants seafood check the suggestion below the recipe.
Source: Cooking Channel
Total Time: 26 – 35 minutes
Preparation Time: 15 - 20 minutes (includes time to boil water for spaghetti)
Cooking Time: 10 – 15 minutes
Serves: 2-3
Ingredients:
- ½ lb. (approx.) Spaghetti
- 6 – 8 cups Water
- 1 tbsp. Salt (to be added to boiling water)
- Rind of ½ Lemon
- 1 Lemon, juiced or 3 tbsp. Lemon Juice
- ½ - ¾ tsp. crushed/minced Garlic (adjust to your liking. I like garlic and used ¾ tsp.)
- 2 ½ tbsp. Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- ⅓ – ½ cup grated Parmigiano Reggiano
- ¼ tsp. Salt
- ⅛ tsp. Black Pepper Powder
- ¼ - ½ cup Flat Parsley
Vegetables:
- 8 – 10 Mushrooms, diced
- 2 small Zucchini, diced
- 2 tsp. Olive Oil or any Oil
- ⅛ tsp. Black Pepper Powder
- ¼ - ½ tsp. Salt
Preparation:
- Cooking Spaghetti - Cook spaghetti to al dente following the instructions on the spaghetti box. I cooked spaghetti in 6-8 cups of salted (1 tbsp. salt) boiling water for about 11 minutes. Drain the spaghetti and keep ready.
- Vegetables - While the spaghetti is cooking, roast diced mushrooms and zucchini in a 10” pan in some oil. Add salt and pepper to the vegetables when sautéing. This will take about 5 – 7 minutes on high flame. If the vegetables burn, reduce the flame. Once roasted, keep aside the vegetables.
- Lemon Sauce - In a bowl take freshly squeezed lemon juice, garlic and whisk by slowly adding extra virgin olive oil to the lemon mixture. Add salt, pepper and cheese and whisk/mix.
- Serving – Prepare the vegetables and lemon sauce before spaghetti is cooked. Once spaghetti is al dente, drain the spaghetti and add it to the lemon sauce. Give it a good stir. Add the vegetables, parsley and more cheese if one wants. Give it a good stir and serve immediately.
Suggestions:
- This spaghetti can be served without any topping or with vegetables or with some shrimp. The first time I made it, I served with some shrimp. I marinated 1 pound shrimp with ⅛ tsp. black pepper powder, ¼ tsp. red pepper flakes, ¼ - ½ tsp. salt and 1 tbsp. oil for 30 – 60 minutes. Sauté the shrimp in some oil until the shrimp curls up and change color, and is fully cooked, about 5 – 8 minutes.
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Ammaji Kitchen{Sree} (@sreevallie) says
Awesome & flavorful sauce..
Sindhiya says
Such a refreshing spaghetti... Yum Yum!!
Nisha Sundar says
Nice one Usha. Love the zest and flavour of this dish. Bookmarked.
Srivalli says
Lemon sauce sounds very nice Usha..Before reading through the recipe, i thought it would be something like our Lemon Sevei types..very nice recipe..
Pavani says
That is one very flavorful and delicious looking pasta dish.
Priya says
Drooling here, its been ages i had spaghetti with lemon sauce, now you are pulling me to make some soon.
pumpkinfarmfood says
simple flavors is all that your pictures need...you convert them into rather special dishes
Sayantani says
this is such a wonderful recipe. we love pastas for dinner and this one is very quick and flavourful.
Padma Rekha says
Spaghetti with lemon flavor very interesting and like that sauce recipe...
Sarita says
Spaghetti looks great.I hope addition of shrimp to spaghetti adds more taste.. Will try soon with shrimp being our favorite.
Harini says
The sauce sounds very interesting. I am sure I am going to try this out.
manjulabharWebsiteathkumar says
wow such an refreshing spaghetti with lemon flavor infused 🙂 looks very tempting !!
srividhya says
Refreshing sauce. Love the presentation. Will try it soon
veenasvegnation says
Great click and the same seems very flavourful!
Vaishali Sabnani says
That sauce sounds so interesting and flavorful...feel like digging in Usha.
Varada says
Such a refreshing and light sauce. I have to try it. Addition of mushrooms and zucchini sounds really good.