I've seen that a pasta throwdown has been done. And i've seen beautiful and interesting things!
So... Why not a pasta thread?
Pasta is, of course, my main lunch dish. Simple, cheap, good and recommended form dietist. What do you need more? Well if you could eat 200g of it with an heavy ragù and still ok with dietist, but nothing is perfect!
There's an huge amount of types (shapes, ingredients, if it's fresh or dry, whith or without eggs, etc) that can be used with another huge amount of toppings (tomato, salsa, ragù, meat, fish, seafood, cheese, vegetables, etc... Even in soup!). In my opinion there are little combinations that don't make good use of hot peppers...
Here a nice simple recipe, Spaghetti with anchovies, capers and hot pepper.
There are some very basic and empirical cooking tips if someone is new to pasta...
Here another simple recipe (many thanks to Umberm from pepperfriends.com forum for the excellent recipe and the permission to use it here!):
Pasta pangrattato e peperoncino! Pasta with grated bread and hot pepper!
Somewhat remembers pasta "aglio, olio, peperoncino" (garlic, oil, hot pepper)...
Note that this is a base, you can add the spices you like better with bread when roasting it, or also in the oil...
But even in this very simple form it's very good!
Ingredients:
I used 2 peperocini calabresi.
Preparing ingredients:
cut finely peppers and put in evo oil:
if you can keep peppers in oil for some hours is better, anyway it's good if it's done only during pasta cooking time too...
Short moment of contemplation, this is my everyday topping for pasta!
Now you can start to heat water to cook pasta...
You need to toast breadcrumbs in a pan:
You need to cook until it becomes darker for some minutes like that:
Very important: you must stir this nearly continuously to prevent burning!
Then, you strain pasta and stir with pepper/oil and bread.
If you want you can pan fry adding other oil to amalgamate it better. I didn't.
Here when it's ready:
Share recipes and post pics!
So... Why not a pasta thread?
Pasta is, of course, my main lunch dish. Simple, cheap, good and recommended form dietist. What do you need more? Well if you could eat 200g of it with an heavy ragù and still ok with dietist, but nothing is perfect!
There's an huge amount of types (shapes, ingredients, if it's fresh or dry, whith or without eggs, etc) that can be used with another huge amount of toppings (tomato, salsa, ragù, meat, fish, seafood, cheese, vegetables, etc... Even in soup!). In my opinion there are little combinations that don't make good use of hot peppers...
Here a nice simple recipe, Spaghetti with anchovies, capers and hot pepper.
There are some very basic and empirical cooking tips if someone is new to pasta...
Here another simple recipe (many thanks to Umberm from pepperfriends.com forum for the excellent recipe and the permission to use it here!):
Pasta pangrattato e peperoncino! Pasta with grated bread and hot pepper!
Somewhat remembers pasta "aglio, olio, peperoncino" (garlic, oil, hot pepper)...
Note that this is a base, you can add the spices you like better with bread when roasting it, or also in the oil...
But even in this very simple form it's very good!
Ingredients:
- pasta (long as spaghetti or short as macaroni at you discretion)
- toasted breadcrumbs
- evo oil
- hot peppers
- water
- cooking salt (to cook pasta on water)
- spices (optional and not used here)
I used 2 peperocini calabresi.
Preparing ingredients:
cut finely peppers and put in evo oil:
if you can keep peppers in oil for some hours is better, anyway it's good if it's done only during pasta cooking time too...
Short moment of contemplation, this is my everyday topping for pasta!
Now you can start to heat water to cook pasta...
You need to toast breadcrumbs in a pan:
You need to cook until it becomes darker for some minutes like that:
Very important: you must stir this nearly continuously to prevent burning!
Then, you strain pasta and stir with pepper/oil and bread.
If you want you can pan fry adding other oil to amalgamate it better. I didn't.
Here when it's ready:
Share recipes and post pics!
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