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Vegetable Pasta Recipes

However, lets not forget that Vegetable pasta's can warm your heart and your belly during the Winter months as well, with deep rich flavors of mushrooms, carrots and cauliflower.

My Father made a Roasted Winter Vegetable puree, poured it over freshly made pasta and drizzled it with Olive Oil. It's a taste that remains in my mind today!

For every vegetable available to us, I guarantee there is an Italian pasta recipe waiting to be created. Those of you looking for Vegetarian pasta recipes, you've come to the right place. Here are some delicious and creative recipes that will fit into any vegetarian diet. Or LIVE it!.

Of course seasonal Flavors and fresh local ingredients are what Italian Food is all about and any time of the year is the season for pasta with vegetables.

Here's where you'll find some very unique recipes to make your meals exciting and delicious!

Let's talk about Summer fresh vegetable pasta recipes

Spicy Arugula
Creamy Avocados
Sweet Bell Peppers
Crisp Cucumbers
Wonderful Squash
Bright Red Tomatoes
Brilliantly Green Zucchini

Blending some or all of them into a flavorful and colorful cold pasta salad recipe on a hot summer day. Serve it with a crisp glass of Pinot Grigio and some crusty Italian bread and you've got the makings of a beautiful Sunday brunch.

This is the perfect time to break out your favorite pesto recipe to add it to these masterpieces. A spoonful of pesto can add brilliance to the color and the flavor to all your vegetable pasta recipes.

Pasta Prima Vera Recipes, Prima Vera means Summer in Italian, are the perfect example of a summer classic Italian pasta recipe. There is a creamy version that makes my mouth water.

Warm Winter's bounty of vegetable pasta recipes:

Amazing Artichokes & Asparagus
Lovely Broccoli
Crunchy Cauliflower
Colorful Carrots
Rich Mushrooms
Tasty Squash
Full Flavored Potatoes
Refreshing Watercress

Let's not forget Garlic

Winter Vegetables are bold, hearty and warm in texture. It's like Mother nature knows what's going to comfort us in the colder Winter months.

Artichokes, grown more in the South of Italy bring unique flavor and design to any of your vegetable pasta recipes, naturally. An artichoke pesto with just the slightest taste of lemon may be what you crave. When I lived in Rome I made an Artichoke pasta dish with a light white wine sauce and centered with a generous helping of freshly made ricotta cheese.

Melanzane or Eggplant pasta sauce decorated with creamy diced buffalo mozzarella.

Purple cauliflower with golden raisins and served with Rigatoni. Toss in some toasted pinenuts and drizzle with rich olive oil.

Lets not forget a classic Porcini Mushroom cream sauce over Tagliatelli. These are just a few of the joys of eating Winter Vegetables.

But Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall it's always a great season for Pasta!

Read this exclusive interview with Lisa, from Lisa's Kitchen. A vegetarian for over 19 years, and a foodie blogger since 2007. She speaks out about her reasons for becoming a vegetarian and shares her favorite vegetable pasta recipes. Vivere, Amare, Ridere e Mangiare Bene
Live, Love, Laugh and Eat Well!
Kira Volpi

Do you have any vegetable pasta recipes you'd like to share? Post it here on this site for a whole page dedicated to your Italian pasta recipe.

ARTICHOKE PASTA RECIPE
Summer on a plate. Using artichokes to make something really special.

ASPARAGUS PASTA RECIPE
In a gorgonzola cream sauce create the perfect marriage of flavors. The perfect way to welcome the spring.

PASTA WITH ARUGULA
A colorful, gourmet Italian pasta recipe with a bite!

KAMUT PASTA WITH ZUCCHINI PUREE
The buttery Kamut with lush Zucchini puree make this a vegetarian pasta recipe dream come true!

ESCAROLE RECIPE WITH BRIE AND PASTA
A recipe for a reunion of friends and a marriage of sweet, richness and bitter. Occasion appropriate.

PORCINI PASTA CREAM SAUCE OVER PAPPARDELLE
Bruno's Recipe straight from Rome. Bellisima!

TALEGGIO CHEESE PASTA WITH SUNDRIED TOMATOES
Creamy taleggio coupled with Linda's homemade sundered tomatoes are a pasta lovers dream come true.

WILD MUSHROOM PASTA
A delicious blend of bold portabella's, sweet oyster mushrooms and rich porcini's. Amazing!

ZUCCHINI PASTA
Simple and beautiful and ready in less then 20 minutes!


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