Recipes for Pasta

[svasu_ani]

Hi,

Pls share recipes for making Pasta..

Anitha

[ssanjinika]

I watch Rachel Rays 30 min meals on Food TV regularly.Ive found her pasta recipies to be both easy to make and excellent.You could log on to FoodTV.com and check out her recipies

[RedPepper]

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I was trying to replicate one dish that I ate at an Italian restaurant and this is what I came up with. This tastes somewhat close to what I ate at the restaurant.

Grilled chicken cut into small pieces – 1 cup (I make this dish when I have leftover grilled chicken breasts. I think you can grill some chicken for this purpose, or use some fried chicken breasts.)
Mushrooms – 1 pack
Dried tomatoes cut into thin stripes - ½ cup (I don’t think you can substitute fresh tomatoes here, the restaurant used dried tomatoes and the flavor is different. (http://www.laquila.co.uk/images/medveg/medveg_tom.jpg)
Garlic – 3 medium cloves (edit: roast this in a preheated oven for about 15 mts, until the flesh turns light brown)
Heavy whipping cream – 1 pint
Parmesan cheese – I have no measure for this. Probably ½ to ¾ cup grated, and more for garnishing.
Chopped fresh parsley leaves
Butter
Bow tie pasta

Peel the roasted garlic and make a paste. Mix this paste to the heavy cream and boil the mixture in a heavy bottom saucepan. Stir occasionally.
On another burner, start cooking pasta according to package directions.
On another burner, heat up some butter and stir-fry the mushrooms with enough salt. Add dried tomatoes and chicken pieces and cook for a minute. Then turn off the flame.

Now get back to the pan where the cream is boiling. Add parsley leaves and slowly add parmesan little by little. Keep stirring. It will become thicker. Add salt and pepper. The sauce is ready. You can now mix this with the chicken and mushrooms.

Drain pasta, and mix with the sauce. Transfer to a serving plate, and sprinkle more grated parmesan on top. Serve hot.

You can also use store bought alfredo sauce instead of making your own sauce. But I like to follow the above method.
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Ground meat, Ragu, onion, garlic, basil and oregano make a quick sauce for any type of pasta, especially spaghetti.
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[Alana]

here`s a great site: http://pasta.allrecipes.com/ enjoy your pasta!
http://www.poster.net/marcialis/marcialis-assortimento-pasta-italiano-2103285.jpg

& here is my favourite cooking site,hope you find something you like http://www.nigella.com/

[Anoushka]

I like my pasta with white sauce and this is how I make it.

Boil pasta with a pinch of salt and when it is cooked, drain it and leave it aside.

Stir fry veggies of your choice like corn, mushroom, pepper, onion, peas, beans, carrot! Fry a pod of chopped garlic as well, add all this to the pasta.

Now in a pan take a table spoon of butter and add a spoon of plain flour to it, keep stirring it till it gets cooked and the raw smell is gone, to this add mustard powder ( a pinch) or mustard paste, a teaspoon of tomato ketchup and stir it in, to this add milk little by little and stir it well taking care that lumps are not formed. if you have one of those hand held mixies, then you can stir the milk in and use the hand held to make sure there are no lumps. Add this sauce to the pasta veg mix. Top this up with grated cheddar cheese and stick it in the oven till the cheese browns....

This is pasta bake ready for you :)

[vasanthkv]

I have a simple pasta recipie which I make once in a while....


Ingredients:

Pasta - desired quantity/shape
1/2 onion - chopped
Mustard seeds - to splatter
Cumin seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
Channa Dal - 1/2 teaspoon
Pasta sauce ( I like Tomato-Basil sauce )
Garam Masala powder
Sambar Powder
little Tumeric powder
little Curry leaves
1 Green chilli pepper - Chopped


Boil Pasta in water and drain it. Splatter mustard seeds in oil, add channa dal and Cumin seeds. Add curry leaves... Then add chopped onions,Add chilli and tumeric powder.. and fry the mixture till onion turns light brown. Then add garam masala / Sambar powder. Then add salt and let the mixture boil for few minutes.
Add cooked pasta with little water and let it boil. Then pasta sauce and mix the dish well. Turn off the stove after water evaporates.

[rajshank]

Hey Vasanth,

That recipe looks like Italian, desi style!!! Great improvisations!!! It would satisfy the kids, and we would not have to compromise on our desi palates!!!

Rajshank

[RedPepper]

Wow!!! An Indian recipe for pasta! Thanks for sharing vasanthkv. :clap:

[sailu]

Recipe for cheesy chicken pasta (http://indiacuisine.blogspot.com/2005/11/cheesy-chicken-pasta-bake.html) ..you can omit the chicken and add veggies of your choice like french beans,carrots,potatos and green peas.It tastes very good.
I have posted the recipe at my food blog (http://indiacuisine.blogspot.com).

[vasanthkv]

Hey Vasanth,

That recipe looks like Italian, desi style!!! Great improvisations!!! It would satisfy the kids, and we would not have to compromise on our desi palates!!!

Rajshank

Wow!!! An Indian recipe for pasta! Thanks for sharing vasanthkv. :clap:

Thanks Rajshank and Redpepper,
Trust me, its tasty. my wife and my 3year-old love this dish.....

[vm]

I have 2 boxes of rigatoni and minni penne pastas which was given by a friend. Can somebody post any veggie or cheese recipes?

Thanks

[Anoushka]

vm: you can try the pasta recipe that I have given above...

[Alan]

Is it ok to use Pasta that has been refridgerated for a few months? But the packet is opened.

[RedPepper]

Why did you refrigerate the Pasta? Are you talking about cooked pasta? or fresh pasta? Dried pasta that comes in packets supposed to stay in the pantry for a very long time.

[Anoushka]

Alan: Is it dry pasta you are talking about or something like tortellini?