Simple delicious pasta

[cherrypied]

The kind where you just "throw butter ans sage and black pepper" into a pan or a certain cheese/egg/ etc.

Or your best carbonara recipe.

Cherry tomatoes cut in half, simmered down like mad in olive oil with salt pepper herbs garlic bit and of sugar/balsamic/chilli to taste. Mixed with spaghetti. Delicious. Add prawns if feeling fancy.

We had this the other day (DDs choice) & was very nice:

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/christmas-pasta/

Also this one is a favourite at home:

www.zizzi.co.uk/recipes/casareccia-pollo-piccante-pasta

Yum!

Olive oil, cherry toms ( halved), finely grated Parmesan and rock salt. Mix all that together cold, you can add herbs if you have or fancy, then dump hot cooked pasta on top. Toss, done, yum!!

Put a whole Boursin into a baking dish with cherry tomatoes, spinach, chicken if wanted, extra garlic if you like a lot of garlic. Surround with orzo. Add chicken or veg stock and bake until orzo has absorbed stock. Mix. Add some grated cheese and fried onions if liked, season. Serve.

Fry off some pancetta on low until crispy, when done remove from the pan with a slotted spoon and then pour the fat into a cup and keep.
In a bowl add 2 egg yolks per person eating, add a few turns of fresh cracked black pepper and then the pancetta fat mix with parmesan and pecorino until a thick paste, set aside.
Boil your linguine until just al dentè, transfere with tongs to the pancetta pan, have a low heat on add the paste mixture to your pasta and add a half ladle of pasta water swirling the pan, stiring the pasta with tongs until the sauce is emulsified and glossy, taste to see if you need any salt, you may not depending on the pancetta bit sometimes you do.
Add the pancetta and serve.

Fry pancetta and then add in halved cherry toms and chopped garlic. As linguine gets al dente, wilt in some spinach. Lift out with tongs into frying pan so you have a bit of pasta water. Give it about 30 sec on high heat. Plate up with some fresh basil and crumble goats cheese and a splash of olive oil and black pepper on top 👌

Mix grated Parmesan, olive oil and the zest and juice of a lemon until it emulsifies. Fry some Panko breadcrumbs until crunchy and mix into spaghetti.
Thats what I’ve just done!

Olive oil
Garlic
Chilli flakes

Stir in cooked pasta

Dress with fresh Parmesan

Boil and drain the pasta, add a lot of butter and feta cheese. Eat out of the saucepan like a savage.

If you like Crab this is easy, quick and delicious, I only make it when I have the house to myself because no-one else likes seafood and I can enjoy it without the complaints.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/food/2022/aug/01/crab-linguine-lemon-herbs-recipe-rachel-roddy

Cook pasta, when cooked stir in garlic purée, tomato purée, Passata, olive oil, salt, pepper, sugar, butter, mixed herbs. So easy and quick and my kids love it.
100 ways with pasta is a great book if you can get hold of a copy.
recipes like lemon, creme fraiche, mushrooms, parsley. So simple.

Ooh what a great thread. I struggle to get past olive oil, butter and grated cheese for easy pasta but will definitely be trying a few of these.

Also find that fresh pesto (from the fridge section, not homemade!) is infinitely nicer than from a jar

Gently cook garlic and ginger with olive oil in a pan, add chilli and lemon juice (more lemon juice than you think, I use the long life one), salt and pepper. Add prawns. Pour over linguine. It will take less time than the linguine takes to cook.

Cook pasta and frozen peas together, then fry a grated courgette in oil and garlic. Mix together an egg yolk, grated parmesan and lemon zest. Add the cooked pasta and peas to the frypan with the courgette, add egg mix and stir, like a carbonara.

Fry up garlic and chilli flakes in olive oil. Add to spaghetti, grate parmigiana over it. Enjoy!

Lots of mushrooms. Cook down with some olive oil and butter. Add a splash of white wine or stock. Cook down again. Make sure the mushrooms are cooked. Splash of cream. Add cooked pasta and enough pasta water to make a sauce. Parmesan if you have/like it. Eat. Perfect for using a bit past it mushrooms.

Fry off whatever Mediterranean veg you have in a bit of olive oil while you cook pasta. When it’s nearly done stir through 2 tbs good quality nduja, then lemon zest and 3tbs or so of marscapone. Can also add some spinach or blanched kale/cavolo Nero at this stage. Emulsify with pasta and reserved cooking water, adding enough to loosen. Season and Parmesan to taste.

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gently warm pancetta and allow the fat to render while cooking orichiette and blanching brocolli. Finely slice garlic and chillis and stick in with pancetta and generous amount of olive oil on lowest heat. Add pasta, grated Parmesan and brocolli and mix until cheese melted and all coated. Serve with black pepper and more Parmesan.

whizz together cherry tomatoes, garlic, salt, lemon zest/juice, chilli, blanched almonds and Parmesan in a blender. Stir through warmed pasta using reserved water to loosen.

Garlic, lemon zest and lots of fresh oregano. Fry. Add cooked pasta and top with parmesan. Yum!

This is very good
https://simply-delicious-food.com/easy-tuscan-chicken-pasta/

and there’s an amazing website called Serving Dumplings which has some seriously good pasta recipes. Our absolute go-to

melt butter with fresh sage, cook until sage is crispy, add onions, tomatoes, mushroom, cook until mushroom are soft, add linguine, cheese on top.
voilà

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/pasta-recipes/pasta-peperonata/

Also- one weekend when you're not doing anything, put some tins of tomatoes in a pan (I do 4) with a peeled onion and a handful of peeled garlic abs a big chunk of butter. Put on a slow ring for ages. At least an hour. Longer if you have it. Blitz. Freeze in portions. Thaw in a pan while you cook the pasta. Add some frozen prawns, mixed seafood, cooked chicken, chickpeas, fried tofu or some other protein of choice. Add cooked pasta and enough pasta water to make a sauce. Parmesan and parley are nice. Not Parmesan if your using fish or my ancestors will
come and haunt you. Taste the tomato sauce when it thaws- it might need a little salt, pepper or sugar.

Wow thanks everyone a great selection of recipes for me to try!

While pasta is cooking (rigatoni/penne or similar is best here), have a glass of wine.

3 minutes before it's ready, in a bowl mix a tub of ricotta, the zest of one lemon, a generous grating of parmesan, some garlic (I often just use garlic oil for convenience here), a drizzle of olive oil (if not using garlic oil) and some salt and Pepper.

1 minute before pasta is ready use a cup to scoop out roughly half a cup of the cooking water, then empty a bag of spinach in with the pasta.

Drain the pasta and spinach and replace in pot. Stir in the ricotta mix, using a bit of the hot cooking water to get it to dissolve a bit and spread out.

Serve with a squeeze of lemon juice, generous amount of fresh black pepper, grated parmesan and salt to taste.

My other option is a tiny bit more effort - but the bar is pretty low:

Slice courgettes. Fry slowly and gently in olive oil. Once softened, crank up heat, add lemon zest, chilli flakes and fresh garlic and let the courgettes brown slightly. Serve with feta cheese and season with lemon juice and salt to taste.