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Cheese and Spinach Ravioli
This is one of the simplest ravioli dishes you’ll ever make, all you need is a shopping bag, trip to the supermarket, a little bit of time and patience. All the ingredients are store bought and assembled, of course there is cooking involved, otherwise there’d be no fun. I make this quite often at home especially if we’re entertaining guests, they love it and so do we. A true Italian cook would never make this dish the way I’m going to teach you, but believe me its worth the lack of effort of rolling out the pasta. Yet another flavour packed vegetarian dish for my readers.
Seafood pasta in a white wine cream sauce
This may be one of the most time consuming pasta dishes as it has several layers of preparation, but the end result is simply delectable. I guarantee plates will be licked. Growing up near the coast line, seafood is a integral part of our daily food intake and I just love the simplicity of the flavour profiles in this dish, also this is a great dinner party treat which will have your guests coming back for more. Hope you enjoy this.
Spaghetti with Meatballs
Ahh meatballs! Who doesn’t like meatballs, I guess the vegetarians don’t; BTW you can make a all veggie variation of this, which I will put up in another post, for now let’s talk meat. This recipe is basically a Spaghetti Bolognese but the meat is turned into meatballs. Simple huh, yes! But a lil more elbow grease, and the best part is you can make these in advance and all you have to do is assemble it before eating.
Spaghetti Bolognese
If you like a meaty and hearty meal, you’ve come to the right place, this beautiful Italian meat sauce hails from Bologna, and is one of the most popular sauces in the world. There are various ways to work this recipe, you can add your own tweaks to it, I however follow this tried and tested recipe because I want to taste all the flavours and yet keep it simple.
Spaghetti Aglio Olio with Shrimp
Aglio Olio, the ultimate sweet, nutty and spicy indulgence for the health conscious. This recipe is literally one of the easiest pasta dishes ever, however this works really well with long pastas, you could also use Fettuccine, Ziti, Capellini, Tagliatelle. I personally wouldn’t recommend using short pasta but it does work with Fusilli and Farfalle. In this dish the dominating flavours have to be controlled by you, if you like garlic, go ahead add as much as you’d like, however don’t make the mistake of using one flavour that completely overpowers all the other ingredients. This works really well with fresh pasta. Enjoy!
Fettuccine Alfredo
This is one of my favourite dishes, although in the earlier posts about sauces I haven’t talked about butter sauces and cream sauces, I promise to do the same very soon. But this dish is so easy and tasty that I’m sure you’re going to make it a regular feature in your pasta journey. This works very well with kids too, because of its creamy yummy-ness. Enjoy.
Veloute Sauce
A Veloute Sauce is more widely used now instead of a béchamel sauce, it tastier and cheaper to make and a must in chicken and fish dishes.
Brown Sauce or Espagnole
This is the heavy flavorful sauce that should be served with red meats; steaks, ribs, roulades! It may seem like a daunting task but once you’ve mastered it, you won’t be able to eat your meat without it. Enjoy!
Béchamel Sauce
This is another standard or leading sauce used in ‘continental’ cooking! It’s my favorite and there are many variations to make small sauces including flavorings.