Burst Tomato Pappardelle with Zucchini, Sweet Corn, and Pan-Fried Chicken

July 8, 2021 shonda rogers 0 Comments

Meet your next fave summertime pasta! Egg pappardelle tossed in a luscious cream sauce with fresh, bursty summer veg and the best crispy pan-fried chicken. Here we goooo!

This recipe is sponsored by DeLallo

Do you know what’s never not delicious? Even in the heat of summer?

Noodles. ♡

And if you should find yourself, sometime in the next week or so, making a rustic garlicky burst-tomato cream sauce speckled with fresh summer sweet corn and CSA zucchini, tossing it with some hot pappardelle, and making a perfect little bed where you can place a piece of juicy pan-fried chicken only to top it all with Parmesan and basil… well, then, this summer is looking good for you.

And the reality of my life right now is that I literally just ate this, like, moments ago, and now I’m looking at it and I want to eat it again. ♡ Ugh. THE POWER OF PASTA. Love and respect.

Chopsticks grabbing noodles for Burst Tomato Pappardelle.

This DeLallo pappardelle egg pasta is a summer favorite of mine – I mean, yes, also a favorite in every other season, but I like pappardelle for its ability to hold up tender little chunks of super fresh summer produce with its flat, wide shape. And pappardelle can be hard to find, which is why this is an essential to add to your next DeLallo order so you just have it on hand always. Along with the spirali. And the shellbows. Motto for 2021: fun pasta shapes make life better.

I also find cream sauces to work so deliciously with pappardelle, and this egg pasta in particular, because it gives the sauce what it needs for the appropriate balance of silky, slippery, sticky clingy-ness. Find someone who loves you the way this sauce holds on to this pasta. Is that how that works?

The cream sauce here, though – it’s not overly heavy, in my opinion. It’s just enough to hold it all together and give you the little bit of extra-luscious something that makes you try it and say, actually, yes, I think I do need 100 more bites of this. (And you do.)

Overhead image of ingredients for Burst Tomato Pappardelle.

Summer produce is here for us and everyone said AMEN!

I love a good meal that’s a… full meal, like one where you don’t have to make a vegetable side to go with it, you know what I mean? So the more the merrier in terms of summer veggies here. I used the tomatoes to make the sauce, and then included sweet corn and zucchini as my extra veg add-ins, and had chicken for my protein, but all of those are swappable for whatever you have or whatever you like.

The best recipes are the ones where you can say, this is how I did it and now YOU DO YOU! And that’s what I’m saying here.

Go into the world and make this pasta your own.

Burst tomato pappardelle in a bowl with a white hand holding the bowl. There's a pan-fried piece of chicken on top of the pasta.

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Burst Tomato Pappardelle: FAQs

Looks delicious! Can I use chicken thighs here?

Absolutely! Just make sure to pound them out a bit so they can cook quickly.

Can this be made vegetarian?

Of course! Just leave out the pan-fried chicken.

I don’t have one of the veggies listed on hand. Can I use other veggies here?

Please, please, please! This pasta is begging to be customized to be whatever you want. Peas? Sure! Mushrooms? Yum!