Pasta with creamy zucchini casserole from the wood oven

Have you ever considered preparing your delicious casserole on your BBQ or wood fired oven? What's stopping you? A blissful experience that will also lead to a fantastic result like this creamy Courgett dish made in the wood oven. Pure enjoyment both during the meal as well as during the preparation.

Course casserole, Main Course

Cuisine European, Italian

Keyword campfire cooking, casserole, creamy, mozzarella, oven, pasta, Roast, tomato sauce, wood fired, zucchini

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 40

Total Time 50

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

2 pcs. zucchini
1 clove garlic
2 red onions
1 tbsp sunflower oil
800 ml tomato cubes with basil
200 ml cooking cream
2 bulbs buffalo mozzarella
2 tbsp Italian herbs or more to taste
pepper and salt to taste
500 gr. conchiglie pasta
fresh basil
A couple branches rosemary optional

Instructions

Prepare your wood-fired oven or BBQ for a session at medium temperature (180-200°C). With a woodoven you use medium-sized blocks of wood (+-5cm).
Chop the onion and add it to a skillet together with sunflower oil, Italian herbs and garlic. Place in the wood-burning oven or BBQ and let the onion fry.
Deglaze with the tomato cubes in basil and stir in the cooking cream. Place back in the wood-burning oven for 10 minutes. Throw some rosemary branches in the fire for a nice smoky touch.
In the meantime, cut the zucchini into fine strips with a peeler or mandolin and spread over an oven dish. Season to taste with salt and pepper and place one of the two bulbs of mozzarella torn and spread over the zucchini strands. Then cover with the rest of the strands.
Pour the sauce over the strings and tear the 2nd ball of mozzarella into pieces and place it on top of the sauce. Add some branches of rosemary on top to finish and slide into the wood oven. Grill the dish for about 20 minutes at 200°C until you get a nice crust on the casserole.
Meanwhile you can cook the Conchiglie according to the instructions on the package.
Spoon the pasta into the plate and place the zucchini strings from the wood fired oven with sauce over it. Finish with freshly shredded basil and some freshly grated cheese.