Pasta Patricia

We have this delicious recipe that was created by my boyfriends grandmother one day while we were visiting her. Not only is it so yummy and good for you, it is so simple; there's only 5 ingredients! Therefore, we named the dish Pasta Patricia. Now I've already tried out my zucchini pasta with red sauce and marinara, but I was craving this dish and I thought why not try it out?! I double checked that we had all the other ingredients and I decided to make it!

The ingredients are:

Chick Peas (1 can)

Yellow Onions (about 4-5 if small/ 3-4 if larger)

Garlic (about 4 cloves or however much you’d like)

Olive oil

Of course you need zucchini and/or squash and salt & pepper! If you don’t want to use Zucchini or Squash as your pasta alternative, fettuccini or linguini works just fine.

[all the ingredients simmering together]

I like to cut up all my onions into slices and chop up my garlic before I do anything else. Set them aside on a plate, get out a large frying pan, add olive oil to cover the bottom( and then some) and heat up. :- ) While that is heating up I make my zucchini pasta and then set aside.  When the frying pan is warm I add only the onions first; add salt and pepper.  As the onions are cooking I get out a pot for the water and get that ready, usually the onions are getting soft so I then add the garlic and let those ingredients really cook together in the olive oil. (add more olive oil if it seems like it is absorbing, also if the onions start to look caramelized turn down the stove a bit) Then I add the chick peas, I usually pour in a little bit of the juice, about ¼ of it. Then I add more salt and pepper and start to boil my water.  After I bring the water to a boil I add a bit of garlic salt to the water, you can if you want. While the zucchini is cooking I let the chick peas, onions and garlic simmer in the olive oil. After about 3 minutes strain the zucchini and either add to the frying pan or put on separate plate. I always top it off with some shave parmesan as well! Enjoy!!

[Pasta Patricia]