Pasta recipes

Pasta with mushrooms in pesto sauce is a simple, easy to make, yet extremely delicious Italisn dish. As with most pasta dishes, the sauce is made while the pasta is cooking. This dish can be ready in 10 to 15 minutes, provided that you have soaked the dried mushrooms in advance. You can substitute the dried mushrooms with regular mushrooms but the taste will be far from the one when using dried one. You can also use a ready made pesto sauce, but it is very easy to make your own, and it will taste much better for sure.
 

Pasta with a tuna, anchovy, olive, caper and basil tomato sauce. This dish is very similar to pasta Puttanesca with the main difference being the use of tuna meat.
 

An healthy spaghetti dish using a lemon and olive oil based sauce. Unlike most spaghetti recipes, the sauce in this one is not cooked; instead, fresh lemon juice together with olive oil and Parmesan cheese are used as the sauce. This is a great recipe for people who like the taste and arome of fresh lemon juice. Use good quality, fresh lemons, preferably organic.
 

A delicious pasta dish using fresh mussels, steamed in white wine and herbs and then cooked with olive oil, garlic, capers and black olives. This dish is extremely easy and fast to prepare, provided you have prepared the mussels.
 

A recipe for a typical Italian pasta salad. This salad can be refrigerated and eaten the next day. Main ingredients are the fussili or farfalle, capers, black olives, tomatoes and basil. The secret in making pasta salads is using fresh, good quality ingredients, a nice dressing and refrigerating the salad for at least 2 hours before serving, so that the flavors develop. A salad dressing for this recipe is included but you can use a ready made Italian dressing if you like
 

An easy spaghetti and garlic shrimp recipe. Use fresh, medium or large sized shrimps for best results.
 

A simple pasta dish using a creamy sauce made with gorgonzola and sweet onions.
 

An Italian pasta dish using prosciutto and peas cooked in a marinara sauce. This recipe is delicious and easy to do and can be ready in 15 minutes.
 

A delicious pasta dish using a creamy garlic sauce. The sauce used in this recipe is a variation of the Alfredo sauce using milk, butter, cream, Parmesan cheese, flour, garlic and sauteed onions and mushrooms.
 

This classic Italian beef steak recipe is used in combination with a tomato based pasta sauce. Braciole is basically round beef steak, rolled up with garlic, onion, herbs, spices and Parmesan cheese. The braciole is browned in olive oil, then slowly cooked in a tomato or Marinara sauce for 1 1/2 to 2 hours and finally served with pasta or as a standalone dish. This is a perfect recipe for both the tomato sauce and the beef round steak and makes a great pasta dish.