Mushroom Zucchini Pasta is a simple dish with noodles, zucchini, mushrooms, garlic, and Parmesan. It’s so easy, flavorful, and on the table in 25 minutes. Great weeknight dinner option!
Quick and Easy Pasta Dinner
I love this Zucchini Pasta so much in the summer months when garden squash is in full force, but also come back to this recipe all year round because it’s just plain GOOD. Simple, fresh flavors, with minimal ingredients and nothing heavy. Feel free to toss in some cooked, crumbled sausage if you need to satisfy meat eaters at home.
Zucchini Pasta Recipe
Here’s what you’ll need:
(Scroll below to the printable recipe card for details and measurements.)
- Pasta: Thin spaghetti is my standard pasta for this dish, but you can really use any. Choose your favorite.
- Zucchini: You’ll shred the zucchini and then press out any excess moisture. Leave the skin on for flavor and color.
- Mushrooms: Zucchini and mushrooms are best buddies in this dish. Cremini are preferred over button mushrooms, since they’re more flavorful, but either work.
- Garlic: Lots of garlic. For wonderful aromatics and flavor. Use fresh!
- Olive oil: For sautéing the veggies.
- Seasonings: Just salt, black pepper, and crushed red pepper flakes for a little heat.
- Parmesan cheese: With such few ingredients, use the best quality, which means freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, which is infinitely better than anything pre-shredded.
How to Make Zucchini Mushroom Pasta
This dish comes together in 25 minutes, tops. Here’s a brief summary:
(Don’t miss the printable recipe card below with full details.)
- Cook the pasta, al dente.
- Prep and sauté the vegetables. Season and adjust, if necessary.
- Toss mixture with the hot pasta and combine with Parmesan.
Recipe Variations
- Add sausage: this dish is delicious with the addition of cooked, crumbled pork sausage.
- Include yellow squash: 50/50 combo of zucchini and yellow squash is really good.
- Cut back on the garlic: We LOVE garlic, but if 8 cloves sounds like too much to you, feel free to cut back – but not too much! The garlic lends amazing flavor.
More Quick and Easy Pasta Recipes:
- Spaghetti Carbonara (One Pot!)
- Creamy Shrimp Pesto Pasta
- Chicken Pot Pie Noodle Skillet
- Broccoli and Bacon Pasta (One Pot!)
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Mushroom Zucchini Pasta
Ingredients
- 1 pound thin spaghetti
- 2 medium zucchini , shredded and moisture removed
- 8 ounces crimini mushrooms , chopped
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 8 cloves garlic , minced
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper , to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Set a large pot of water to boil. Cook pasta according to package directions until al dente, about 8 minutes.
- While the pasta is cooking, heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat. Add olive oil to the pan, then add the garlic. When the garlic starts to sizzle in the oil, add the zucchini. Season with salt pepper to taste, and the red pepper flakes; sauté for 3 minutes.
- Add the mushrooms and sauté for 4 more minutes.
- Add hot, drained pasta to the pan. Toss spaghetti with the zucchini and mushroom mixture.
- Add the Parmesan and mix to combine. Serve hot.
So easy and delicious! A great weeknight meatless meal. Thank you!
I a man renaming this “lucky charms” pasta because it’s magically delicious. Disclaimer: I did add 2 chopped anchovies.
I am renaming. I really hate when the iPad thinks it knows what I want to say. And yes, I should proof read.
Ha. It’s all good. Spell check is the bane of my existence. Glad you enjoyed this dish – it’s a family fav!
Just came across this recipe…but am wondering if you’d need to add pasta water to make more of a sauce or it would be a bit dry.
Hi Pam – this recipe definitely doesn’t have a loose sauce, but I absolutely adore it as is. You could save some of the pasta water and if you feel like it needs more of a liquid consistency, you could add it. But I feel like that will dull the flavor.
I made this and added yellow squash and green onion. So delish! Thanks for this great idea!
Those additions sound great. So glad you liked it! This is a family favorite…
I love mushrooms ~ this pasta looks fantastic! Please tell the Fairy Hobmother that I would really like a Cuisinart Metal Classic 4-Slice Toaster!
Woo-hoo! A vegetarian meal (and it sounds delicious)!
I want an Amy for my kitchen, but I’m guessing that wish is out of the question. I’ll settle for this recipe on my refrigerator door. :-)
Hee hee! It actually occurred to me over the weekend that I should give you a heads-up to this, in case you were still in your post vaca-blissful-romping-hiking-biking euphoria and weren’t paying attention. Make it! It’s easy!
Hey FHM I want NICE new toaster. I am tired of burnt bagels. GREG
Easy recipes that taste good are so perfect in the summer, this looks great!
Love the sound of this recipe. Wonder if I could pass this by the family since the zucchini is shredded and the mushrooms are cut up small???!! Might have to try it. Guess if I were to make a wish to my Fairy Hobmother, it would be for a new blender. My kids love to make milkshakes. Thank you!
Zucchini and mushrooms are my favorite veggies (ok, though mushrooms are a fungus technically =), so this pasta looks great to me.
And since you mention it, there is totally an applicance that I need for my kitchen: a juicer. I’ve been hearing my pastor’s wife rave about the benefits of a juice diet and I’m dying to try it . . . but multiple hundreds of dollars are standing in my way. I hear that a good juicer is upwards of $300, and I’m not sure if I can convince my husband that the expense would be worthwhile.
Too funny: I was planning to make almost exactly this dish for dinner, but with eggplant in place of the zucchini! What’s that they say about great minds?
I’d have to wish for a new blender. Mine is dying.
I’m getting ready to move into a new place with a teeeeny tiny kitchen and while a Kitchen Aid would make my life truly glorious, I really do think the space issue might be…well, an issue, so I’m gonna go with a food processor here. Don’t currently have one but it has recently come to my attention how much I need one.
I think I dislike the IDEA of rachael ray more than I actually dislike her food. I’ve made some good recipes of hers, actually. Anything with buffalo sauce…but you could put buffalo sauce on anything and I’d love it.
This does look quite yummy.
I could use a new blender. Like, really badly. And by new I mean…I could use a blender. Period.
Oh Fairy Hobmother, I kid you not, my appliances all died in the last two weeks! First the washing machine, it won’t use anything but cold water. Then the dishwasher leaks all over the floor. Next, the dryer runs,but does not heat! Yesterday, the microwave died! Luckily, our Daughters stuff from college is here so I could at least reheat things in her microwave. But thats leaving in 3 weeks. I really need a Fairy Hobmother!
Are you serious? Really? My very own Hobmother? OMG, what to wish for? I think I need to go look at my Amazon wishlist….brb…….oh yes, now I remember. A few weeks back I burned the bottom of my Lodge 6-Quart Lodge Red Enamel Dutch Oven. Made BBQ sauce and it burned to the bottom so bad that I could not get it off. I tried everything. Nothing worked. It’s sitting in my garage cause I’m too sad to throw it out :(
I really could use a new one, but I still feel bad for the old one!
Amy – I admit Ray-Ray just irks me in the worst way, but you are right, she can cook and anyone is better than the semi-ho Sandra.
Kitchen Aid Mixer!!
Printed this bad boy!!! We’re into zucchini and mushroom….the garlic is a bonus…thanks Amy!!!
Hello there, i wanted to say that i am i fan of yours i love reading your blog to see what your up to and the new recipes i have a tried a few and they are so good!! As far as The Fairy Hobmother goes. I could really use central a/c but seeing as that would be way way to much, a new drill for my fiance would be awesome cause then i could get him to put up shelves for me, and a new shower curtain rod. (or do it myself when im tired of asking him lol) Anywho thats all if i get chosen. Have a good day and keep with the Blog! I love it!!
Thanks Gloria! I hear you on the central a/c – I couldn’t live without out. I have no control over who she picks, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you on that drill.