How to Invent Your Own Pasta Recipes

If you are looking for a specific dish, you might like to use a recipe search engine to find exactly what you are looking for. If however you are feeling creative, it is possible to invent your own pasta recipes with relative ease.

First of all, choose what kind of pasta you want to use. Pasta comes in white or whole wheat and lots of different shapes, including penne, bowties, spaghetti, shells and many more. It does not matter too much which pasta you choose but bear in mind that big pasta shapes like shells or tubes are good if you have a chunky sauce because more sauce will stick to those shapes than spaghetti for example.

The Easiest Way to Make a Pasta Sauce

The quickest and simplest way to invent a pasta recipe is to cook the vegetables and sauce while the pasta cooks. If the pasta is cooked before the sauce is done, simply drain it, and cover the pot tightly. It will keep warm. Maybe you want to use hard vegetables like carrots in your pasta recipe, in which case you can finely chop them and cook them in the pot with the pasta.

Chop all your vegetables the same size. You can choose from asparagus, mushrooms, onion, garlic, zucchini, eggplant, broccoli and many more. When you vegetables are chopped up, heat a couple of tablespoons of oil or some cooking spray in a wok.

Add the vegetables to the oil and cook them until they are tender. If you want to make a healthy pasta recipe, you can use water instead of oil. The vegetables will cook just as well but, because water evaporates and oil does not, you might have to keep adding more.

When the vegetables are tender, it is time to add some liquid to make a sauce. The simplest way to do this is to use a jar of pasta sauce but you can also make your own easily enough (and more cheaply).

Combine sieved tomatoes or tomato sauce with fresh basil, pine nuts, sliced olives, chopped anchovies, or anything else you fancy. Add some salt and black pepper for flavor, and a few drops of Tabasco sauce if you like spice.

Throw in a can of salmon, mackerel, or tuna if you like, or even some leftover beef or chicken. For extra creaminess, add some cream cheese, sour cream, heavy cream or grated cheese. Stir the pasta into the sauce and stir it well. Keep cooking it over a low heat until everything is hot, and then serve.

How to Serve Your Homemade Pasta

Top your pasta with some fresh basil leaves and serve it with parmesan cheese. The family will be very impressed with your unique pasta dish and you can rest assured that there are so many different ways to make pasta recipes, each time will be different. Inventing pasta recipes is a great way to use up leftover meat, poultry or fish, as well as vegetables, which are past their prime.

Sometimes it is fun to make up your own recipes but at other times a recipe search is just what you need, especially if you are looking for the best holiday recipes and other recipes for special occasions.

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