Pasta Dishes

DilbertJones

Can anyone list somme good pasta dishes? i only seem to do Tuna Pastabake, Seafood pasta bake & Pasta, Tom Sauce & Sweetcorn......

getting a bit bored so need some inspiration.

annie-c

For a quick meal, saute a finely chopped chilli and a crushed clove of garlic in some olive oil and swirl boiled, drained spaghetti through before serving.. yummy with a salad and some crusty bread.

For something more substantial, saute red onion until tender, brown a packet of sausages cut into chunks and add a tin of chopped tomatoes and some mixed herbs. Simmer for 10-15 mins until sausages thoroughly cooked and serve with pasta twists or similar. If you have an extra half hour then stir the twists into the sausage mix, transfer to an oven-proof dish, top with grated cheese and bake in a moderate oven until golden and bubbly on top.

Carbonara made with bacon bits, eggs and cream is also good, though I don't have a recipe to hand.

Looking forward to hearing other people's ideas - I love pasta!!

emg

I quite like pasta with tinned tomatoes and a couple of dollops of garlic and herb flavour soft cheese. Just cook the pasta and then drain. Pour in the tomatoes (sometimes I use passata for a smoother sauce) and the cheese and keep stirring on a low heat until it's all melted in. Makes a really nice creamy sauce. (Also, anyone doing Weightwatchers - if you use the very lowfat soft cheese then it's really low in points!)

zombiecazz

LEMON & PRAWN PASTA

LEMON MUSHROOM AND CHICKEN PASTA

BACON, SMOKED SAUSAGE AND TOMATO PASTA

CHICKEN, TOMATO, COURGETTE AND PESTO PASTA

ooops caps lock on

gwinnie

I like to oven roast veg -- any combination of aubergine, courgette, peppers, onion, cherry tomatoes (leave whole), with a dash of olive oil. Cook any pasta type, fry whole cloves of garlic in a table spoon of olive oil until brown. Take out the garlic and toss the pasta in the oil. Add the veg when ready. Finish with black pepper, torn basil leaves and parmesan shavings (optional).

Oo, zombie, what kind of sausage do you mean in your 3rd option (I lurrrrve all sausages!).

comping_cat

One we love, is from a Sainsburys advert years ago (when famous people gave their fav recipes, cant remember whose it was tho!!!), which is cooked pasta, a tin of chopped or plum tomatoes, mozerella cheese and some basil, mix together, put in the oven for about 10 mins and serve with crusty bread.
Another of my favourites is pasta (8oz) chopped ham (10oz) 3 eggs, 3/4 pt single cream, cheese (7oz) grated.
Cook the pasta, stir in the ham and put in a greased dish (i grease with butter) Beat together the eggs, cream and half the cheese. Pour over the pasta, sprinkle on the remaining cheese and then bake in the oven for about 30 - 40 minutes.

springchicken

One of our family favourites is sliced chorizo sausage & mushrooms fry these for a minute then add 1 pt milk and 200 ml water plus a chicken stock cube .
Bring this to the boil and add 2 of the Batchelors tomato & herb pasta and sauces plus a large handful of quick cook pasta and peas .Simmer for 10 mins also nice with some black olives. Serves 4 generously :drool:

waterlilyann

I found a recipe on these boards and tried it last night....got an AMAZING reception from my OH!! :j Posted by Rovers - thank you!!!!

rovers wrote:

Ingredients
1 pack of bacon
2-3 medium sized leeks
1 carton of double cream (I use a big one but I'm greedy)
Dry Pasta
Method:
Fry chopped up bacon until crispy and remove from pan,
fry up a couple of leeks in the bacon juice and make sure the leek is really well cooked and brown
put the cooked bacon back in
then add the double cream, it should go a light brown colour,
then stir in the cooked pasta.

It's the tastiest and easiest meal I cook, the kids love it and always ask for more! The trick is cooking the bacon and leek really well so it's extra tasty.

Ajax18

A very simple one is a Spaghetti - Carrot mix. Simply boil the spaghetti. In a frying pan fry one red onion, thin carrot stripes (cut with a vegetable peeler) and two cloves of garlic. Add the spaghetti in the end so all can mix together well. Spice with pepper, salt and oregano. Simple but tastes lovely.

Also, if you have a blender, I came up with a pasta sauce the other day from left-overs which tasted great:

Serves two

1 Broccoli
6 mushrooms
1/4 courgette
400g wholemeal penne pasta

For Sauce:

Half a red pepper
5 cloves of garlic
1/4 Mozarella
1 tsp tomato paste
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp herbes de provence
Salt and Pepper to taste
1/2 cube of vegetable stock
150 ml hot water

1. Boil the penne pasta and steam the broccoli florets
2. Cut up mushrooms and cougettes and fry in a pan with cooking spray
3. Cut red peppers into little pieces and crush the garlic cloves. Grate the Mozarella. Then mix these in a bowl with the other sauce ingredients. Use a blender to mix.

Serve penne, broccoli, cougette and mushrooms with the sauce. It is delicious.

wigginsmum

We toss cooked pasta in either melted butter or lemon-flavoured olive oil, and add grated cheese and black pepper.

Or simply stir in a couple of spoons of pesto.

rygon

i normally see whats in the cupboard and add that in.

with cook pasta add
can of beans,
can of chopped toms,
fried onions,
mushrooms,
garlic,
rosemary and basil,
cooked pork sausage
and finish with a bit of cheese on top


pasta with oven cooked red onion, red, yellow, green peppers, musrooms, chicken (marinated in olive oil, black pepper and whatever herbs you want ie basil) all mixed in with green pesto