Pasta recipe with roasted vegetables

With this recipe you can take advantage of seasonal vegetables, especially in summer, to make a rich, nutritious and natural dish. Follow the step by step and learn how to prepare pasta with roasted vegetables and also accompanied with a delicious almond sauce, which will give an original and different touch to this wonderful vegetarian dish.

Ingredients to make Pasta with roasted vegetables:

• 1 unit of Eggplant
• 1 zucchini unit
• 2 units of red pepper
• 3 units of tomato
• 6 basil leaves
• 3 bay leaves
• 2 tablespoons of Oil
• 1 pinch of salt
• ½ lemon unit (zest)
• 320 grams of Pasta
• Almond Sauce
• 1 handful of fresh Basil
• 1 handful of parsley
• 1 handful of arugula
• 40 grams of Almonds
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 jet of Oil

How to make Pasta with Roasted Vegetables:

1. The first step in preparing the roasted vegetable pasta with almond sauce will be to prepare the ingredients.
2. To do this, cut into cubes of about 2 cm. approximately the aborigine, the zucchini and the peppers, all this without peeling.
3. Tomatoes, on the other hand, in more or less large pieces.
4. Next, mix the already cut vegetableswith the chopped basil leaves, the laurel, the oil, the salt and the lemon zest.
5. Use a large bowl to mix all the ingredients well.
6. Next, place the mixture on a baking tray previously lined with parchment paper. Then, bake in the preheated oven at full temperature for 20 to 30 minutesor until the vegetables are done and starting to brown.
7. Meanwhile, you can prepare the almond sauce. To do this, finely chop all the ingredients, including the unpeeled almonds.
8. Use a knife instead of an electric utensil, this way you will get the sauce to have different textures thanks to the uneven pieces of the almonds.
9. The easiest way to do this is by pressing the tip of the knife against the board with one hand and cutting with the other as the knife is rotated.
10. Place the almond sauce mixture in a sauce boat and mix with enough oil, a pinch of salt and lemon juice. Correct the seasoning if necessary.
11. Separately, prepare the pasta of your choicein the traditional way until al dente. Place a little coarse salt and the bay leaves in the water. The quality of the pasta is important, so be sure to choose carefully.
12. Once the pasta is cooked, drain, remove the bay leaves and mix with the roasted vegetables, previously removed from the oven.
13. Then add a couple of spoons of the almond sauce and mix well until the pasta are completely soaked in the sauce.
14. Serve the pasta with roasted vegetables and almond sauce byadding a little more sauce to the plate and garnishing with fresh basil leaves.