5 Amazing Pasta Recipes You’ve Been Looking For

The pasta is very easy to make, and since it could be made in a few minutes, it saves your precious time, and you can do other important things as well. If you have pasta in your kitchen; you are really reducing the cooking time. There are different types of pasta available in grocery stores; each pasta can be cooked in various ways; moreover, different kinds of pasta come in different shapes and sizes. Children and adults love them. It’s an excellent thing that you can make the pasta with fewer ingredients but having fewer ingredients won’t make your pasta less tasty. You can add as much as ingredients, but the results will be the same most of the time, so you should go for the most straightforward recipes, and for that, we are going to help you with that.

1. Tomato sauce penne pasta:

Penne pasta is one of my most favorite pasta of all time, penne pasta is loved across Italy and penne is considered to be the most famous shape in Italian pasta. This recipe is going to help you find a delicious flavor. You will need tomato sauce, garlic, olive oil, penne pasta, full cream milk, salt, red chili flakes, and black pepper. Boil the pasta for 6 minutes since this pasta cook in very less time, add oil to the non-stick pan, you can visit this website to read some reviews about some of the best non-stick cookware as well. Heat the oil and add some chopped garlic and add let it turn golden, then add tomato sauce in the pan and let it simmer buy adding some water to it and place a lid over it. When the sauce thickens, and it is cooked; add salt, chili flakes to the sauce. Let the flavors combine and add full cream milk to the sauce and then let it cook until thickens. Now add cooked pasta to the sauce and stir it over low heat. Now you have tomato sauce penne pasta ready to eat. Dish out the pasta in a platter and sprinkle some chopped parsley over it. Serve!

2. Chicken Spaghetti:

Spaghetti is made all over the world, but everyone cooks it differently; the recipe we have for is simple, and the ingredients used for this recipe can be found in every household. This spaghetti is cooked with julienne cut boneless chicken. For this recipe, you need julienne cut boneless chicken, garlic, salt, pepper and spaghetti, and obviously Gordon Ramsey’s favorite olive oil. You need to cook the spaghetti in hot boiling water, while you are marinating the chicken in soy sauce, salt, and pepper. After marinating the chicken put it in the fridge for 10 to 15 minutes, now you can heat the pan, and add olive and chopped garlic. Now put the chicken in the pan and toss it after adding salt and pepper. Add some water to tender chicken and after cooking it, add cooked spaghetti. Toss the spaghetti in the pan and sprinkle some freshly chopped parsley or you can add some oregano as well. It is ready, and it should be served immediately after cooking.

3. Alfredo Pasta:

Alfredo pasta looks so good, its white sauce looks so delicious, and you can’t help yourself but eat it as much as you can. Alfredo pasta can be made with these ingredients, garlic, salt, pepper, cream, oregano, and penne pasta. Add some olive oil in the pan and then add some garlic in it, on the other hand, your pasta must be boiled and ready. After searing garlic in the olive oil, you can put all-purpose flour in the pan and make it thick, now put the cream in the pan, and make a sauce out of it. Add some salt and pepper as desired and then add your pasta in the sauce, let the sauce simmer and add some oregano in the sauce; it will give you fragrance. Now your Alfredo pasta is ready. A pasta recipe cannot be as simple as this one, right!

4. Meatballs and spaghetti with tomato sauce:

This is a very common and simple recipe, meatballs with spaghetti are just too tasty, it does not matter how much you eat; you will always want it. The meatballs can be purchased by anyone since they are not expensive, even if you are a student, you can buy them, and you make a great recipe out of them. However, tomato sauce enhances the flavor of the meatballs when they are cooked in it. You can buy any good tomato sauce from a grocery store and give it a chance since it is an easy to go recipe you won’t mess it up. For this recipe, you need tomato sauce, meatballs, salt, pepper, and spaghetti. You can also use other types of pasta as well, but spaghetti always looks good with meatballs. You need to cook meatballs in boiling water, once they are cooked, take them out and place them in the plate.

Meanwhile, boil your pasta and strain the excess water. Now coming back to your stove, you need to add put some olive in the pan and add the tomato sauce, add some sliced garlic in the sauce, and you can add basil leaves while adding salt and chili flakes. Now add water and let it simmer. After it is cooked, add the cooked meatballs in the sauce and coat them with the sauce. However, you can now use two different ways to serve this, either you can put meatballs with tomato sauce on the top of your spaghetti, or you can put your spaghetti in the sauce. It depends on you how you like it. Serve it hot! 

5. Pasta salad:

The best thing about the pasta is that it can be served cold or hot. It is really your choice. However, I will suggest you serve it at room temperature; the best will come out of the pasta salad if you are serving it at room temperature. You need to cook the pasta; it does not matter what kind of pasta you are using for salad, you could use macaroni, ravioli, fusilli or orzo for your salad. You can add baby corn, olives, beans, onions, parmesan cheese and cucumbers. Moreover, spices and herbs can also be added to your pasta salad.

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This post is written by Line Arias who has been working as a nutritionist for ten years now. She recently collaborated with health and fitness spa, NYC, and since then, she has been working on weight loss’ meal prep plans.

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