Creamy Vegetable Ziti Pasta
Creamy Vegetable Ziti Pasta is a tasty comfort meal recipe that includes lettuce and radishes!
Get ready for a creamy pasta meal full of vegetables! It’s the perfect combination!
As you saw earlier this week we picked a bunch of lettuce so I’ve been going dinner recipe crazy with coming up with ways on how to use it. Most people think salads when they have lettuce but we’re not big salad people so I always want to think of ways on how to use it for dinner. I love using lettuce as a main ingredient in adding crunch and healthy vegetables to a dinner dish. We love creamy pasta for dinner but often vegetables go unlooked when adding to it, especially lettuce. For this recipe here we added a big pile of lettuce and radishes to the dish which complimented the creamy pasta perfectly!
After dinner we both proclaimed this to be one of our new favorite dinner dishes… so bring on the lettuce in this creamy dish!
I hope you guys give this a taste for dinner soon! I think you’ll love it!
Creamy Vegetable Ziti Pasta
Ingredients
- 12 oz of ziti or penne pasta
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 cloves garlic - minced
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon parsley flakes
- salt + pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 cup lettuce - chopped
- 1/4 cup radishes - chopped
Instructions
- Cook pasta as instructed on box. Drain and set aside in pot.
- Melt butter and garlic in a medium saucepan.
- Add flour and cook 1 more minute, stirring.
- Add chicken broth and milk, continuing to stir until sauce thickens.
- Add parsley, salt, pepper and Parmesan cheese. Stir so combined.
- Pour cheese sauce over pasta. Add lettuce and radishes.
- Stir so everything is mixed and serve hot.
- Enjoy!
I also love using lettuce as a main ingredient and I really think greens go very well with all kinds of pasta. It looks great 😉
I love the pops of color the lettuce and radishes add! This pasta sounds delicious!
Wow, this look so good! I must try adding lettuce to my pasta salad. And those radishes are wonderful!
I totally want to try this with radishes and spinach from our garden.
Why not…never had radishes with pasta, but this dish looks certainly delicious!
ela h.
Josh insists that lettuce isn’t dinner, so I’ll make this and show him what’s up! It looks heavenly.
This is perfect! I love all of the veggies in here. I wonder if I could add in some ricotta?
YUM yum yum!! Healthy and fresh! This looks like another amazing recipe! Thanks for sharing girl!
Oh boy, this looks so good! I love all the pretty garden veggies in here. Creamy pastas are my weakness but with all those greens and radishes means I can totally eat more and not feel guilty about it – <3 this 🙂
This sounds wonderful. I love how you’ve used your lettuce and radishes in a different way!
I’m so intrigued by all your lettuce uses! I could totally see this being a cold pasta salad too. Yum!
This looks fabulous! What a wonderful way to use up some of the lettuce.
What an unusual combo but I love lettuce and radishes!
You are really making me rethink lettuce. I love how creative you are getting with it! Yum!!
How literally refreshing, I’ve never thought to spotlight lettuce like this…yum!
I love the idea of using salad (lettuce) in pasta! Many times (ok, lots) I really, really miss the crunch and I’m a huge texture person. So I think incorporating lettuce and veggies is a fantastic idea! And I’m crazy about the radishes idea – I love radishes! Brilliant!
delicious!! love the flavors and ingredients –
mary
That looks delish! Love how creamy it is. I am a huge radish fan, I will have to try this soon! 🙂
This pasta sure looks delicious…I absolutely love the idea of the creamy sauce…yum!
Hope you are having a great week Pamela 😀
Ah! I see home-grown radishes in there! This pasta looks creamy and delicious and love all the home ingredients!
I can’t emphasize enough on how MUCH I AM LOVING your dinner recipes with your harvest!!!!! I just sit here at my computer staring and drooling at your amazing dinner photos!!!!! This is such a creamy pasta loaded with the freshest veggies! Yum!
What a great idea to use lettuce this way. I often add it to my peas 🙂
What a wonderful – and unique – way to add lettuce to your meal!
I love how this ziti pasta looks! Absolutely perfect for the summer!
This is the true definition of pasta salad! Love how much green there is in it!
I try not to eat a lot of pasta (although I love it) cutting my carbs, eating more veggies sooooo this recipe is the best of both worlds! I can have my pasta and veggies too.
Agreed on the salad. It does add that crunch! Just the right texture. And salads get so boring after awhile. Great recipe =)
This pasta looks divine girl! Amazing!
The creamier the better, fresh vegetables are always a plus!
Wow this looks fab! Super photos as well, so fresh and summery!
Love how you used lettuce and radish in a pasta dish!
Yummy!
Lettuce in a pasta dish – why Pamela you are brilliant! Do you let the pasta cool first or add the lettuce and eat it right away before it wilts?
Thanks Shashi! I don’t let it cool. As soon as the hot creamy cheese sauce is done, I pour it right in over the pasta and then add in the lettuce/radishes. Enjoy!
A lovely pasta dish that I ate a while ago too! So good! xxx
I love your use of lettuce in this dish!! Yum! 🙂