For most people, pasta is an ordinary everyday dish. Preparing pasta does not require a lot of energy - and dinner is ready for the whole family. But in fact, delicious pasta, prepared in an original way, can become a worthy decoration even for the festive table. Nests of pasta with meat and cheese - delicious, original and beautiful. Salad with pasta - quickly and unusually. Macaroni with shrimps will pleasantly surprise lovers of seafood. And what a variety of sauces for pasta: sweet, spicy, spicy, and most importantly simple and quick to prepare. In general, there are no limits for culinary delights, and experience shows that even ordinary pasta can turn into a completely unusual dish.
Salads with pasta
For the preparation of a salad with pasta it is desirable to use products from durum wheat - they do not stick together, do not boil and are more easily absorbed in combination with meat products. For salads it is important to prepare the macaroni themselves. They should be friable, moderately soft, but not boiled. To make delicious pasta, do not digest them. For festive salads it is better to cook pasta in Italian - slightly not to cook. Also, choose suitable macaroni for salads and preferably medium size.
Salad with pasta in Creole
1 the orange needs to be cleaned and cut into cubes. Skins from orange to rub to make a teaspoon of zest. Juice, leaked from the orange, mix with 2 tbsp. l. grape vinegar, 4 tbsp. olive oil, denticulated chopped garlic. Add 1 tbsp. l. ground mint, 0,5 a pod of chili peppers, cut into rings. To taste, season with red and black pepper. Slice dice 1 peach slightly sprinkle it with lemon juice. Strip 1 red onion and 1 piece each. red, green and yellow sweet pepper. Mix with the prepared pasta, add salt and pepper to taste.
Italian salad with pasta
300 grams of ham, diced; 0.5 cans of pickled cucumber rubbed on a large grater; 300 g of grated cheese (solid); 200 g of pasta (preferably flat not too long). Boil and cool. Mix the ingredients and season with mayonnaise.Recipes of sauces for pasta
Italians say that sauce is the soul of pasta. There are many recipes for pasta in Italian, the highlight of which is precisely the unusual sauce. We often called sauces paste for pasta. And in Italy, pasta itself is called pasta. I can pour on pasta to pasta from almost any food that can be in the refrigerator. When serving a dish from pasta to a table, consider that pasta absorbs not only taste and aroma, but also liquid.
Macaroni in creamy sauce
Preparation of pasta is the same as for other dishes.
For the sauce, heat 1 cup of cream in a saucepan, add 175 g of grated cheese and 2 slices of chopped garlic. To taste, season with black pepper and nutmeg.
50 g walnuts fry in a pan (without oil) and chop. Add to the sauce and cook for 3 minutes. Warm the pasta on plates and top with sauce.
Gravy for pasta
Grind with a blender to obtain a homogeneous mass of the following ingredients:
15 grams of basil leaves, 2 cloves of garlic, 4 tbsp. l. pine nuts and 1/4 cup olive oil. To taste, season with salt and pepper. Add 50 grams of chopped cheese (Parmesan) and mix in the blender with the rest of the mass. Add a few teaspoons of sauce to the pasta with butter and cream, stir well and let it brew for 5 minutes.
Macaroni "Bolognese"
For the sauce, prepare 0.5 kg of ground beef, 450 g of mashed tomatoes, chopped onions (3 pieces), garlic (2 slices), 2 carrots, 2 celery roots and 3 tablespoons basil.
Pour olive oil into the pot and lightly roast the onions. Add the garlic, 3 minutes fry. Add the carrots and celery and stew for 7 minutes. Add minced meat and mix well. Season with pepper, salt. Add tomato paste, ketchup and tomatoes. Cover the lid and on low heat make it ready. In the end, add basil and stew for 5 minutes.
Preparation of pasta starts 10 minutes before the sauce is ready. Sauce is laid out on pasta and sprinkled with grated cheese on top.
Soup with pasta
Soups can be cooked on chicken broth, just adding vegetables, and you can experiment a little and make a completely unusual first dish. For example, the Italian pasta-fagioli.
For this dish of pasta you need these products:
- 1 tbsp. beans;
- 1 carrot;
- 1 onion;
- 1 tbsp. chopped ham;
- 800 grams of tomato, scrolled in a meat grinder or crushed in a blender;
- 80 g of pasta;
- 1 stalk of celery;
- 1 liter of beef broth;
- 2 tbsp. l. olive oil;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 1 tbsp. chopped thyme;
- 1 bay leaf;
- black pepper and salt to taste.
Beans pre-soak at night.
In a saucepan, heat oil. Grind carrots, onions and celery and pour into a saucepan. 5 minutes, cook, stirring. Add chopped garlic and ham, and boil for another minute. Add the rest of the ingredients (except pasta) and cook for half an hour. Take a quarter of a glass of beans from a saucepan, mash it in a mash, and pour it back. Add salt and pepper, bring to a boil. Add the pasta and cook until done. Parmesan cheese and fresh basil are suitable for soup.
Combining pasta with seafood can be cooked, like hot pasta dishes, and savory cold appetizers.
The recipe for pasta with shrimps
Preparation of pasta for this dish is slightly different - after the pasta is boiled, they are cooked for 2 minutes, turn off and cover with a lid. For 0.5 kg of pasta, take 0.5 kg of shrimp (or other seafood), 200 g of milk, 60 g of mayonnaise, 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil, basil.
In a hot frying pan pour oil, put the shrimp and lightly fry. Milk mayonnaise and basil whisk and add salt and black pepper to taste. Pour the sauce into a frying pan and simmer for 3 minutes. Turn off and a few minutes, press under the lid. Spread the pasta on a plate and top with a sauce of shrimp.
The recipe for pasta nests
Boil the noodles.
In salted water, boil 0.5 kg of champignons. 2 onions and chop on butter. Add mushrooms, a little broth in which they were brewed, 3 tbsp. l. sour cream, 3 tbsp. l. soy sauce and 3 tbsp. l. ketchup. Stir and put it out for about 10 minutes.
Whisk 2 eggs, add salt and black pepper. From the resulting mixture bake 2 thin pancakes, roll them with a tube and cut into thin strips.
Spread the pasta on a plate, carefully, so that the glomeruli do not fall apart. From above lay the cut pancakes and mushrooms. Pour sauce on mushrooms and sprinkle with grated cheese.
If you want diversity in everyday food, but do not want to spend much time and energy - try fried pasta. To get delicious pasta, add the vegetables and spices that you like most. Fry the vegetables in the oil, and then add the pasta, lightly cooked, add the broth or diluted with water sour cream (or tomato paste). Simmer under the lid until done. In the preparation of pasta there are no strict restrictions and canons. Feel free to fantasize, this is how amazing recipes are born, which are carefully passed down from generation to generation.