0 The Best Recipes To Cook With Pasta

By Robert T Warner

If you're looking for some great recipes which are quick and easy to make to expand your home based cookery skills then you can't go far wrong with pasta recipes. There are a great variety of dish recipes including low calorie and low in fat recipes to make at home.

A great recipe with pasta to get started with is tagliarini (This is egg noodles cut in to long slender pieces) with courgettes, prawns, mint and chilli. Tagliarini is slightly narrower than tagliatelli and a great pasta. 
Heat some olive oil in a large frying pan and add some prawns frying until they have browned. Next mix in some celery, onion, garlic and mint and continue frying until the prawns have gone a slightly darker brown colour. Cook for a further three minutes after adding some cherry tomatoes. 

·         Mix in a dash of lemon juice and add some chopped courgettes cooking for another five minutes.

·         Pour over half a cup of white wine and bring to the boil heating for a further 2 or 3 minutes.

·         Cook your tagliarini according to the instructions on the packet. It should be 'al dente' (firm but not hard) and this takes around 2 minutes in boiling water depending whether you use fresh pasta dried pasta.

·         Add the pasta to your prawn mixture and then mix in some vegetable stock and butter followed by a sprinkle of parmesan cheese.

·         Blend well together over a gentle heat until ready to eat and well mixed.

·         Season with salt and pepper (freshly ground is best) and serve!

Recipes with pasta are also great for the fridge and you can easily re heat pasta the next day. Pasta dishes can be speeded up if you are in a rush by using salted water to boil your pasta with and steaming your vegetables over the boiling pasta pan - if you have a steamer!

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