Recipe: Simple Buttered Pasta with Zucchini, mushrooms and feta cheese

Buttered Pasta with Zucchini, mushrooms and feta cheese. Simply add an extra drizzle of olive oil. In the batch pictured below, I added half a red bell pepper and a handful of small cherry tomatoes that needed to be used to the zucchini/mushroom mixture. Also, when serving as a pasta dish, Gruyere and Fontina cheese provide tasty options to the feta.

The garlic butter sauce coating this pasta is simply delicious and can be whipped up while waiting for the pasta to cook. Leaving the mushrooms to brown well before adding the other ingredients creates that deep, rich, savoriness that can only be achieved if the mushrooms caramelise a little. Even the pasta gets cooked right in the pot! You can cook Buttered Pasta with Zucchini, mushrooms and feta cheese using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Buttered Pasta with Zucchini, mushrooms and feta cheese

1. You need 1 box of whatever pasta you want to use.
2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of fresh or canned mushrooms.
3. It's 2 of zucchini.
4. You need 1 cup of crumbled feta cheese.
5. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
6. You need 1/2 tsp of black pepper.
7. You need 1/2 cup of butter or Margarine.

Ever since I made that one pot pasta several weeks back, I've been on the hunt for more recipes like this - easy, effortless and sure to be a hit with the entire family. And this zucchini mushroom pasta is exactly that. Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute the mushrooms, onion and garlic in butter until tender.

Buttered Pasta with Zucchini, mushrooms and feta cheese step by step

1. Cook pasta how you normally would. While the pasta cooks, dice the zucchini which ever way you prefer - just be sure they are slightly thick pieces. In a separate saucepan turn on medium heat..
2. Add butter to pan and let melt, then add zucchini and salt and sauté for about 5-7 minutes. Then add mushrooms and cook 2 more minutes..
3. Once pasta is cooked, add to the butter, zucchini and mushroom mixture. Mix everything together, add black pepper, cook for a minute or two, then plate and add the crumbled feta on top..

Add the wine or broth, salt and pepper. Stir into mushroom mixture; sprinkle with feta. Chop up the garlic cloves into small chunks, and slice the zucchini. Cook the pasta according to package directions. In a medium sauce pan, melt the butter and olive oil over low heat.