World Pasta Day: share your MoneySaving pasta recipes

MSE_Laura_F

Happy World Pasta Day 2022

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Some wonderful recipes in this thread (extra points to anyone who mentions garlic and double cream). Are there more MoneySaving pasta recipes out there to share?

-taff

Mushroom and cream sauce - fry mushrooms or use dried porcini mushrooms and a little bit of garlic, add some single cream [or double...:) ] when cooked and warm gently, [don't add and cook the cream if that makes sense], cook pasta to almost ready, chuck in, check to see if it's coated the pasta enough, if not add some of the cooking water in,  add a bit of parmesan, stir, eat. Use tagliatelle or something similar.

RAS

Given the energy costs this is less money saving these days.

Spaghetti
Flour/butter/oil/milk/nutmeg, preferably whole
Black peppercorns, smashed
Fatty cooking bacon or streaky, a couple of rashers each would be generous. Chopped or lardons, smoked for preference.

Make a white sauce (flour and butter/marg/oil in equal quantities (25- 50g) cook and add milk/plant milk. Grate in the nutmeg; it needs to taste distinctly of nutmeg.

Put spaghetti on to cook. If you've made the white sauce thick, loosen with a little of the cooking water just before you drain.

Start to fry the bacon, until it crisps and the fat runs. Add the smashed peppercorns to heat in the oil for the last minute.

Add the drained pasta to the nutmeg sauce. Serve into portions, top with a share of the crispy bacon and the peppercorns and scrape the oil over as well. 

Stir and eat.

A quicker version. 

Spaghetti
An egg per person
Fatty cooking bacon or streaky, as above

Put the pasta on the cook.  Start to fry the bacon until crisp.

Beat an egg per person in a bowl. 

When the pasta is cooked, whisk a couple of tablespoons of the cooking water into the eggs to start emulsifying them. Drain the pasta and stir in the egg immediately and stir thoroughly. It'll cook in the residual heat, don't put it back on the hob or it'll scramble. Serve and top with bacon bits and fat. 

You could add some veggies to this if they need eating up, mushrooms, pepper, broccoli, shredded greens etc. I'd add the broccoli to the pasta for the last few minutes, and stir fry the other veggies with the bacon, just wilting any greens. 

YoungBlueEyes

Jeez they both sound lovely Taff and RAS. I'll be trying both of them. Yummy!

bouicca21

My current favourite is really quick, simple and seems far more expensive than it is (I reckon about £1.50 a portion).

fry 2-3 fat cloves of chopped garlic, stir in 5-7 anchovy fillets, add a spoonful of capers, some olives (black for preference but green work), some chilli flakes and a can of tuna.  Break up the tuna as you cook it all together.  

In the meantime cook your pasta, add a bit of the cooking water to the sauce and stir it all together.

YoungBlueEyes

That sounds a bit like my "slops" recipe Bouicca21. 

Fry a couple of rashers of bacon in a frying pan, transfer to a plate when cooked. In the fat add some very thinly sliced garlic, a finely diced onion, then whatever you have in the fridge. Peas/broccoli/peppers/cherry toms/mushrooms is a good combo (added in that order). Snip the bacon into wee bits and add it back to the pan. Stir til it's all warmed through again.  Lovely served over spaghetti.

P.S. I call it slops because it 'slops' right outta the pan. V yummy and quick too.

Floss

Pasta with marmite (Nigella acquired recipe) 4-6 people

375g spaghetti 
50g butter
1 tso Marmite
Parmesan cheese

Cook spaghetti & drain
Melt butter, add Marmite and 1tbsp pasta water.
Pour over drained spaghetti 
Add Parmesan
Serve

Floss

Proper Carbonara (from an Italian hotelier in Livigno, Italy)

Spaghetti
Finely chopped streaky bacon / lardons
1 egg yolk per person
1 tbsp parmesan or pecorino per person

Cook spaghetti
Gently fry bacon until just crisp 
Mix egg yolk & parmesan
Drain spaghetti 
Add bacon and egg/cheese mix to spaghetti in pan, and stir - DO NOT HEAT OR IT WILL SCRAMBLE
Serve, seasoned with black pepper & more parmesan.

JIL

I had an absolutely delicious pasta in Spain of all places. It was a simple chopped fresh tomato, spinach and parmesan with a few chopped walnuts.
I really dont know what they did with it but it was so "fresh tasting"

I made an oven orzo pasta tonight. I just fried off in butter and garlic, some leeks and mushrooms. Added 1 and a half litres of stock (included wine and fresh lemonjuice) and 500g orzo. Added herbs and it went in the oven for half an hour, topped with tenderstem broccoli. Mixed parmesan into it to finish. Whilst it was cooking into the oven went some salmon. 

We had our cream on the raspberries and strawberries for afters.

bouicca21

@JIL I had a similarly fresh tasting tomato sauce in Italy.  The secret was that the tomatoes were roasted first.