Zucchini Pasta – The Easiest Healthy 4-Ingredient Dinner Recipe!

This homemade super healthy, creamy zucchini pasta dinner recipe is an insanely easy one-pot recipe made with only 5 ingredients, but delivers the most filling and refreshing flavor you’ll absolutely fall in love with!

The extremely easy-to-prepare dinner recipe is full of healthy nutrients that zucchini provides, and an excellent way to incorporate more veggies into your diet if you don’t have any non-basic ideas on how to make your meal at least a little bit more colorful and interesting.

The best thing is that it doesn’t require a bunch of ingredients, but still delivers the abundantly delicious, and filling taste!

Girl, If you’re extremely busy, and don’t have the nerves to prepare more complicated and demanding recipes that require 10+ ingredients – this one’s for you!

If you’re like me, and strictly refuse and despise ordering food, and are determined to stay on your path of investing in eating invigorating, whole foods and implementing more fruits and veggies into your diet, again – this one’s especially for you!

This creamy zucchini pasta will only take up a maximum of 30 minutes of your time! How cool is that!?

Why You’ll Love This Recipe?

• Extremely refreshing, creamy, and filling – Adding Greek yogurt to almost any recipe enhances the overall flavor and adds that needed freshness to the pasta’s neutral taste, as well as finely minced garlic cloves! Although pasta is a quick and substantial meal, certain varieties include empty carbs, which indicate that they give very little nutritious value in addition to the calories they contain. (1)

• Super nutritious – Zucchini is a multipurpose vegetable high in vitamins, minerals, and plant components. In addition to being rich in vitamins C and B6, it also offers a decent supply of fiber, which may help with healthy digestion!

• Easy and ready in 30 minutes!

• Brilliant way to incorporate veggies into your diet – If you often have no idea how to make your plate a lot more appealing, than just eating plain monotonous veggies, this pasta will be your new favorite go-to dinner!

• Only 5 ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen! – this mouth-watering zucchini pasta only calls for a handful of ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen! You’ll only need pasta (ideally organic), 1 medium-large zucchini, garlic, Greek yogurt, a few drops of lemon, and plant-based oil for preparation!

What Are Some Benefits Of Zucchini?

• Abunds in numerous vitamins – Numerous vitamins, minerals, and advantageous plant chemicals may be found in zucchini. Although raw zucchini has a somewhat lower amount, cooked zucchini is especially high in vitamin A. (2)

• High in antioxidants – Numerous antioxidants included in zucchini may have a number of positive health effects. The skin of the fruit contains the greatest concentrations. (3)

• Supports Healthy Digestive Function – Due to its high water and fiber content, zucchini can aid in promoting good digestion by lowering your risk of constipation and the signs of a number of digestive illnesses. (4)

• Improves eye health – Additionally, zucchini could enhance eye health. For instance, zucchini has a lot of antioxidant vitamin C. According to some data, vitamin C may lower a person’s chance of having eye issues. (5)

Ingredients You Need

Medium-large zucchini

Pasta – While refined, enriched pasta tends to be richer in iron and B vitamins, whole-grain pasta is often higher in fiber, manganese, selenium, copper, and phosphorus. In comparison to refined pasta, whole-grain pasta has fewer calories, more fiber, and more of a few key micronutrients. (6)

Garlic – a small amount of garlic always adds a noticeable flavor to the salad and gives that lacking spark, while being delicious and packed with antioxidants.

Greek yogurt – adds a creamy, thick, sweeter texture that can enhance the flavor of the salad, and contains a lot of nutrients such as calcium protein, probiotics, and vitamin B-12. It has many benefits such as boosting metabolism and improving gut health. Probiotics that are present in Greek yogurt act as good bacteria that may help to reestablish a bacterial balance in the gut. 

A few drops of lemon – a wonderful source of Vitamin C, and a flavorful ingredient for this zucchini pasta, that will add a little bit of savory. It is totally optional.

how to make

• Boil a salted pot of water to prepare your pasta. Cook the pasta according to the package directions. (mine was 7 minutes for middle soft, and 9 minutes for extra soft)

• Meanwhile, grate one medium-to-large zucchini and squeeze out the excessive water from the minced zucchini so that it can be sautéed better and quicker.

• Add your vegetable oil (I used sunflower oil) to a large pan. When hot, add 2 minced cloves of garlic over medium-high heat. Sauté until the garlic starts getting a slight yellowish tone, for about 30 seconds to 1 minute, stirring occasionally.

• Add the grated zucchini, season with salt, and let it cook until the zucchini also starts getting a little yellowish – for about 5-8 minutes, stirring occasionally.. If needed, cook a little bit more, but be cautious not to overdo it.

• When the zucchini is ready, start adding boiled pasta while gently stirring.

• Remove from the stove, and add Greek yogurt and a few drops of lemon.

• Serve warm, or wait until it is cooled down a little bit. Add finely chopped cucumber as a topping to enhance the refreshing taste – optional.