My most shameful secret as a recipe developer is that I don’t actually care about pasta. Sure, I do know. It’s scrumptious and simple, however I’m far more of a rice or bread particular person. Clearly, this isn't a preferred opinion, one that always will get me silent glares after I select to share it brazenly at dinner events.
That mentioned, the explanation I don’t typically make it at house is that, similar to the everyday cook dinner, I fall right into a rut the place I make the identical sauces over and over, and generally I simply don’t wish to make one other sauce for the pasta.
That’s why after I come throughout new pasta recipes which are blessedly easy and don’t name for making a sauce, I cling to them tighter than a sauce to pasta that hasn’t but been diluted with cooking water (super-niche pasta humor, sorry).
One such recipe is the Pasta With Tomato Confit and Ricotta from my pal Alexis deBoschnek’s new cookbook “To the Final Chunk,” by which DeBoschnek tosses slowly roasted cherry tomatoes with pasta and a few dollops of ricotta — and that’s it. It’s so easy I barely have to consider something past boiling the pasta. I function that recipe, and one other for a vibrant, crisp Carrot Ribbon Salad, in my evaluate final week of DeBoschnek’s ebook.
Following in that very same vein, listed below are another so-easy-you’ll-laugh recipes for once you simply need a few flavor-packed components to punch up a satisfying bowl of pasta.
Maria Zizka’s Midnight Pasta couldn’t be easier, gilding pasta with nothing greater than some garlic, pine nuts and capers calmly warmed in olive oil. Daybreak Perry’s Pasta With Garlic & Chile Greens and Toasted Bread Crumbs takes that very same components however provides some nutritious greens to the combination, which wilt down in seconds whereas the pasta cooks and a few crunchy, don’t-skip-’em bread crumbs toast up within the oven.
And if in case you have a lemon, a handful of mushrooms and a bag of frozen broccoli mendacity round, you can also make my Caramelized Lemon Pasta With Mushrooms and Broccoli, which lets the citrus do all the flavour labor.
Pasta With Tomato Confit and Ricotta
Tomato confit is nice on nearly the whole lot — topped on pizza, piled excessive on charred sourdough, swirled in with creamy polenta — however it’s notably good blended into pasta with heaps of ricotta.
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Cook dinner time: 20 minutes, plus 2 hours, largely unattended, for tomatoes.
Midnight Pasta
Spaghettata, a feast of piping sizzling pasta cooked at dwelling late at evening, typically after you’ve come dwelling from the bar, is ideal for if you find yourself hungry and never fairly prepared for mattress. Substitutions abound on this recipe. As a substitute of capers, attempt utilizing one other small, salty ingredient like olives or anchovies. Swap out the pine nuts for a wealthy, buttery ingredient like chopped walnuts or grated laborious cheese.
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Cook dinner time: 20 minutes.
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Pasta With Garlic & Chile Greens and Toasted Bread Crumbs
Selfmade super-crunchy bread crumbs — made out of the final bits of a leftover loaf — elevate this straightforward pasta dish, teeming with spicy, garlicky greens. Any pasta works for this dish, however quick, tubular shapes are nice for catching all these flavorful bread crumbs and cheese.
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Cook dinner time: half-hour.
Caramelized Lemon Pasta With Mushrooms and Broccoli
Vegetarian and filling, this pasta dish will get all its zest from tangy caramelized lemon. To make it vegan, merely sreplace the parmesan with a shake of dietary yeast on the finish.
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Cook dinner time: 45 minutes.
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