To enjoy pasta, it is not at all necessary to order it in a restaurant or in a specialized cafe. It's enough just to use a couple of tips and recipes and cook this dish yourself at no extra cost.
To make the perfect pasta at home, you need to choose your pasta exclusively from durum wheat. The preparation method and similar instructions are indicated on the packaging. But nevertheless, despite this, there is another little life hack, thanks to which you get the perfect pasta for making pasta.
They need to be cooked exclusively in a deep, spacious saucepan and a large amount of water, which should be salted after boiling, and then gradually add pasta to the boiling water, gently stirring them.
Important! do not cover the pan with a lid.
Also, don't forget about sauces. After all, they play an important and key role in the preparation of this dish. As a rule, absolutely any sauce is suitable for pasta: mushroom, garlic, tomato, pesto, meat, nut, fish, vegetable, cream and others.
1. With mushrooms and spinach
Do you like mushrooms and pasta? Then this dish will definitely suit your taste. Choose any mushrooms, combine them with spinach and grated cheese, season with aromatic spices and serve.
Ingredients:
• Curly pasta or spaghetti - 300 g;
• Mushrooms (any to your taste) - 0.5 kg;
• Spinach - 150 g;
• Hard cheese - 50 g;
• Butter - 40 g;
• Olive oil - 2 tablespoons;
• Salt - to taste;
• Ground black pepper - to taste;
• Fresh parsley - 6-7 stalks;
• Lemon - 1 pc.
Cooking method:
• Bring water to a boil and then salt;
• Gently add pasta and boil until half cooked as written on the package;
• Pour some of the liquid into a glass;
• Throw the pasta in a colander;
• Wash, dry and chop spinach;
• Wash the mushrooms thoroughly;
• Dry and cut into even pieces;
• Fry in olive oil and butter until light golden brown;
• Pepper, salt and stir;
• Then add pasta to the mushrooms;
• Pour 0.5 cups of pasta water;
• Stir and simmer, stirring slightly for 5-7 minutes;
• Then add chopped spinach;
• Cook for 2-3 minutes;
• Sprinkle with lemon juice and add the zest of grated lemon;
• Stir and simmer for 3-4 minutes;
• Sprinkle with grated cheese and finely chopped parsley before serving.
2. With vegetables
Another original recipe is pasta with vegetables. Moreover, when the season is in full swing, why not try to cook something like that?
Ingredients:
• Spirals - 200 g;
• Small eggplants - 1 pc;
• Small carrots - 1 pc;
• Red onion - 1 small head;
• Bulgarian pepper - 1 piece;
• Small zucchini - 1 piece;
• Tomato paste - 100 g;
• Small tomatoes (cherry is possible) - 5-6 pcs;
• Hard cheese - 50 g;
• Garlic - 2 cloves;
• Salt - to taste;
• Olive oil - 2 tablespoons;
• A mixture of dry herbs - 0.5 tsp;
• Green basil - 3-4 leaves.
Cooking method:
• Boil the spirals in slightly salted water until half cooked;
• Peel the onion and cut into thin half rings;
• Wash, peel and cut vegetables into thin strips (or cubes);
• Fry in oil for 5-7 minutes;
• Then salt, pepper, add garlic passed through a press, dry herbs, tomato paste;
• Stir gently, add a little water and cook for another 6-8 minutes;
• Mix ready vegetables with boiled pasta;
• Sprinkle with grated cheese and finely chopped basil leaves before serving.
3. Carbonara
The secret of the perfect Carbonara pasta is a delicious and perfectly selected set of ingredients that gives the dish that very bright and rich taste.
Ingredients:
• Spaghetti - 150-200 g;
• Bacon - 8-10 strips;
• Medium-sized onion - 1 pc;
• Garlic - 3-4 cloves;
• Eggs - 2 pcs;
• Fat cream - 0.5 cups;
• Hard cheese - 100 g;
• Salt - to taste;
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking method:
• Boil spaghetti in slightly salted water until half cooked;
• Cut bacon into small pieces;
• And fry in a dry hot skillet until crisp;
• Afterwards, transfer to a dish covered with paper towels;
• Peel and chop the onion;
• Pass the garlic through a press;
• Fry for 5-7 minutes in the same pan where the bacon was fried;
• Salt and pepper;
• Throw the spaghetti in a colander and let the water drain;
• In a bowl, mix eggs with cream, add half of the grated cheese and mix thoroughly until smooth;
• Fill the pasta with the resulting sauce;
• Stir gently;
• Sprinkle with fried bacon, onion and garlic on top, and season with grated cheese.
4. With lemon and spinach
But this dish is for connoisseurs of light lemon sourness, which, in combination with spices and grated cheese, gives the pasta a special, delicate taste.
Ingredients:
• Durum pasta - 100 g;
• Fatty cream - 2-3 tbsp;
• Spinach - 1 large bunch;
• Butter - 2 tsp;
• Hard cheese - 50 g;
• Lemon - 0, 5 pieces;
• Salt - to taste;
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking method:
• Boil pasta in slightly salted water until al dente;
• Wash spinach thoroughly under cold running water;
• Then dry and cut;
• Fry in butter for 5-7 minutes;
• After squeezing out the lemon juice, salt and pepper;
• Stir gently;
• And add pasta;
• Stir slightly;
• Cook for 6-8 minutes;
• Sprinkle with grated cheese and lemon zest before serving.
5. With shrimps
And of course, what pasta is without seafood? To prepare this dish, you can use both a seafood cocktail or all the ingredients separately. But it turns out the best with shrimp with wine-tomato sauce.
Ingredients:
• Pasta - 400 g;
• Peeled shrimps - 0.5 kg;
• Large tomatoes - 4 pieces;
• Garlic - 5-6 cloves;
• Olive oil - 6 tsp;
• Dry white wine - 1 glass;
• Butter - 4 tsp;
• Spices for seafood - 1 tsp;
• Salt - to taste;
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
Cooking method:
• Boil pasta in slightly salted water according to the instructions;
• Afterwards, put it in a colander and let the water drain;
• Wash the tomatoes;
• Remove the skin;
• Cut the pulp into small cubes;
• And fry in a deep frying pan in olive oil for 3-4 minutes;
• Then reduce heat, add chopped garlic, salt and pepper;
• Stir gently;
• Add wine;
• Cover and cook for 35-40 minutes;
• In another frying pan, fry the shrimps in butter until light golden brown on all sides;
• Season with seafood spices;
• Put the pasta on a plate;
• Sprinkle generously with tomato sauce on top and top with the fried shrimp.
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