So, who has some delicious wholemeal pasta recipes then?

[Caligula]

[Caligula]

I like them with lentils and strong sausages, like toulouse ones btw (and peppers, garlic, onion, tomatoes.)

That's my contribution.

[Kelly1978]

lol. I made brocoli and tom pasta salad yest for lunch today. I think that would be nice with wholemeal pasta. was quite bland so would prob work well. It was supposed to be with pesto, which I didnt have, so I sort of made a tom sauce thingy, creme fraise, and pumpkin seeds. Rather nice.

[Greensleeves]

1. Take any popular pasta dish (lasagne, pasta bake, spag bol to name but a few)
   
   
2. Replace pulpy nutritionally dead white pasta with wholemeal
   
   
3. Prepare dish in the usual way
   
   
4. Serve and enjoy, takeing care to ignore the barrage of inverse snobbery from lazy ignorant shit-guzzling slobs

[Kelly1978]

nooo, def not spag bol or las. It would be vile!

[Caligula]

Oh Greensleves, you savage.

Carbonara with wholemeal - bleurgh!

[Greensleeves]

Delicious

And marginally less of a waste of time nutritionally than other substitutes (eg toilet paper, polystyrene, white pasta, etc)

[Kelly1978]

Would rather eat polydsytrene than wholemeal with carbonara. bleuugh!

[Jazzi]

Good on you Greensleeves, was beginning to get a real complex about giving my children real food!!

[zippitippitoes]

chop fresh ginger, chilli and garlic and spring onion and sixxle nicely add chopped red pepper (peel first)and chopped chicken breast sizzle again add spoonful of honey and juice of half a lemon and sun dried tom puree reduce and serve with spaghetti

[puddle]

Agree with you greensleeves - we don't use white pasta now. It's like white bread once you're into wholemeal, just tastes bland and pappy.

[BonyM]

We often have spag bol with wholemeal - it's far from vile Kelly! Have to admit though that I do prefer it with white!

Wholemeal is good with roast veg - peppers, mushrooms, aubergine, tomatoes, onions - drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with thyme, roast in the oven and toss with the pasta and some parmesan. Dead easy!

[Blu]

Wholemeal pasta isn't 'real food', it is a 'made-up' version of the original.
If you enjoy it, or it is your only source of fibre, fine, but white pasta is not actually nutritionaly dead, it has protein, carbs (as starch), calcium....
But if you enjoy it, fine. I will ven eat it pollitely and appreciatively if i come to your house.
But I won't like it, and neither will Nigel Slater!

[zippitippitoes]

I don't like it either..I did buy it for years but am recidivist

[Kelly1978]

That's interesting. Though, I still wouldn't eat wholemeal spag bol appreciatively at all.

[ScummyMummy]

blu- thank you so much for letting me know that wholemeal pasta is made up. I have been feeling guilty about my distaste for it for many moons.

[Marina]

It's only sold in pharmacies in Italy I am told.
I think wholemeal pasta does go OK with robust food like sausage, but it's a sticking point with dh and as we have wholemeal pretty much everything else (rice, bread, breakfast cereal etc) I concede defeat on that one. And it really does not go well with a lot of trad Italian sauce based dishes, IME.

[hunkermunker]

I agree with you, GS, but I'm a nazi who lets my DS1 have a drink when he's out, so what would I know?

[hana]

only ever use wholemeal pasta despite what it's made up of! girls don't mind
only wish that there was more variety available - it's only ever swiry things or spaghetti

[Marina]

You can get brilliant half and half organic pasta in Carrefour in France hana. Perfect compromise as you get some extra fibre but a better texture. Highly recommended - I fill the car with it we like it so much

[hunkermunker]

Seeds of Change do a half and half one - you can get it in most supermarkets. And you can get wholemeal conchiglie and penne in Sainsburys.

I will just say I only discovered I liked it when I had gestational diabetes - beforehand I'd thought it was like eating cardboard wet dogs.

But I can't eat white stuff now (and I used to hate people who said this, so I understand why it gets your backs up) - it's too pappy.

[Blu]

But if you're eating your 5 a day, and maybe wholemeal bread and a flapjack - why do you need all this gratuitous fibre?

I honestly think that people who eat wholemeal pasta (and celery) should pay more on theoir water rates to cover the extra production of sewage.

LOL at wholemeal pasta only being sold in pahrmacies in Italy.

[Blu]

OK - the diabetes argument makes sense...but also links it to the reatil outlest for it in Italy!

[Mercy]

"delicious" and "wholemeal pasta" - surely a contradiction in terms.

Yes, interesting to know it's made up, does explain its absence in Italy!

[foxinsocks]

I tried it but it's a bit like chewing hay

would imagine it does better with strong, tomato based sauces than the creamy ones (maybe try it with amatriciana or arrabiata)