Easy Pasta Recipes - All Very Special,and Ready to Serve in Half-an-HourPasta - A quick main course? An easy side dish? I'll show you both. For a terrific one dish meal do some exciting things with ingredients like seafood or chicken and veggies. As a side dish just serve it up with a little olive or canola oil - the healthful oils. Or add a prepared or home-made creamy Alfredo or another favorite sauce while you put together a quick & easy entree. Now, boiling the salted water and cooking the pasta will usually take the better part of 15 minutes. But, that's the time you use to put the rest of the dish together. And if you're a carb-watcher you must know by now that there's a white pasta available (for a bit more $$$) that offers 3 to 6 grams of fiber and only around 5 net grams of carbs. And this stuff, one is "Dreamfields", another, "Ronzini Smart Pasta", tastes and "feels" just like the traditional. 
Of course, there's still whole-wheat pasta which is fine if you like the taste of whole-wheat bread on a fork.I've put a handful of recipes for different "pasta with.." combinations down below, but each of these categories also has its own page! So first check out the categories that interest you here - Pasta with Seafood, with Veggies, with meat, with Chicken or with Sauce, then click-the-link for a whole bunch of each group. Pasta is fun food, for big kids as well as little ones, don't you agree? So, how about cooking up some of these exciting recipes and have fun!
You don't see ricotta or nutmeg in your typical pasta and sausage dish but we aren't looking for "typical", are we? 1/2 lb sweet (mild) Italian sausage Puncture sausages with a fork. In a skillet, bring sausages and 1/4 cup water to simmer over medium heat; cook, turning often, for 3-4 minutes or until water evaporates. Continue cooking and turning often, for 8 minutes or until no longer pink inside. Meanwhile, in pot of boiling salted water, cook penne for 8-10 minutes or until tender but firm (al dente); drain in colander, reserving 1 cup liquid. In same pot, combine 3/4 cup of the reserved cooking liquid, the ricotta, parsley, red pepper flakes, pepper, salt and nutmeg. Stir in sausages, then penne. Mix in remaining cooking liquid if necessary to make mixture shiny. Serve sprinkled with pecorino.
CONTENTS JUST CLICK TITLE TO GO THERE TO PRINT OR PREVIEW A RECIPE:Found some you want to keep? (I certainly hope so.) Just highlight them, then right click, hit "Print", then "Selection", then "Print" again. That was easy, wasn't it? (If this doesn't work, give your printer a good whack with something - like I do. It won't help you print but you might feel better.) PASTA WITH SEAFOODAngel Hair Pasta with Scallops and Cream SauceFettucine with Basil, Rock Shrimp & Sun-Dried Tomatoes Pasta with Anchovies Shrimp & Pepper Pasta Tagliatelle with Scallops & Cream Sauce (Tagliatelle con Cape Sante alla Crema) PASTA SAUCESBest Mac & CheeseMacaroni with Vodka Sauce (Maccheroni con la Vodka) Shells With Cook-Less Tomato Sauce Pasta with Fresh Tomato-Basil Sauce PASTA WITH VEGGIESEggplant Mozzarella (Penne A La Siciliana)Spinach and Ricotta with Shells Linguine with Walnut-Parsley Pesto PASTA WITH MEATSpaghetti alla CarbonaraBaby Spinach & Sausage Macaroni Orzo with Sweet Sausage & Tomatoes Spaghetti with Pancetta and Sun-Dried Tomatoes PASTA WITH CHICKEN & TURKEYMixed-Up Chicken & Tomato PastaTurkey Piccata Pasta Creamy Turkey Fettucine Thai Chicken Pasta |
