Despite the fact that pasta is considered to be a dish of purely Italian cuisine, they are very popular with us. And that is understandable. Cooking them quickly and simply, their cost is low. In addition, you can serve pasta to the table as an independent dish or as a side dish. But what sauce for pasta is better to prepare, not only to diversify the dish, but also to emphasize its taste.
There are a lot of them. Sometimes in this variety it is difficult to find the most optimal version of the recipe for pasta sauce. In this article we will try to solve this difficult question. We offer several sauce recipes for every taste, from the simplest to the real Italian.
Choose pasta
Before you start cooking pasta, you must choose it correctly. Now in the store it is present in huge numbers and sometimes it is very difficult to make a choice. Even acquiring a well-known brand of pasta, you can run into a fake. If it is of poor quality, then not one pasta sauce can improve its taste. So, how to make the right choice:
- The first thing you should pay attention to is the composition of the product. Good pasta consists of only two components - wheat flour and water. Such a paste will not only not damage the figure, but will also benefit the body. Natural colorants may be used as additional additives. They are spinach (gives a green tint), carrots or even exotic cuttlefish ink. If you buy colored pasta, then information about the dye must be present on the package.
- Preference is best given to pasta made from durum wheat. They are perfectly absorbed by the body and do not affect the figure. But unless you season them with high-calorie sauces or use them as a side dish for fatty dishes. Finding such a paste is easy. On its packaging there should be an inscription “group A” or “class 1”.
- Do not take pasta of a pale color and with broken edges. Often on them you can see small white spots. This indicates their low quality. The correct paste has a pleasant golden color, smooth surface. Also on the surface of such pasta, small dark spots are noticeable.
After pasta is selected, you can think about how to make pasta sauce.
Cream sauce
It is distinguished by its unique gentle taste and pleasant aroma. This pasta sauce is loved by everyone. It is prepared quite simply and quickly. But its taste is able to give a new shade to all pasta that is familiar to all. To prepare it, we need such products:
- Twenty percent cream is one cup.
- Hard cheese, any of the varieties, approximately 80-100 grams.
- Butter about 20 grams.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Pepper is better to take freshly ground. It will give the dish a special, rich aroma.
How to make creamy sauce
Now more about how to make pasta sauce. First you need to grate hard cheese on a fine grater. Then we pour one full glass of cream into a saucepan or a small saucepan and bring them to a boil. After we put there a small piece of butter.
Be sure to take butter, not margarine. The latter will only spoil the taste of the sauce with its specific flavor. Then pour some of the grated cheese into cream. By the way, the more you add it, the thicker the sauce will be for pasta.
Mix the cream with cheese, salt and pepper a little. Add dried Italian herbs if desired . You can also add fried champignons.
Ready sauce immediately pour pasta and serve them to the table.
Sour cream
This pasta sauce is incredibly easy to make. Even your child can handle it, to his joy, to help you.
But, despite this, sour cream pasta sauce has a pleasant taste that can diversify the very fresh taste of pasta. In order to cook it, we need such products:
- 100 grams of sour cream, any fat content.
- A small piece of butter.
- 2-3 cloves of garlic.
- Fresh greens of dill and parsley.
Cooking Sour Cream Sauce
To cook it, you need to pass the garlic through a press or rub it on a fine grater. Fry in butter and mix with sour cream. Add chopped greens to it. Mix everything well. The sauce is ready. It can be stored in the refrigerator, in a sealed container for up to three days.
Also, if desired, add spices to your taste. Sour cream sauce for pasta has a neutral taste, for this reason, pasta with this sauce can be used as a side dish for any dish.
Tomato sauce
One of the most popular is tomato pasta sauce. With it, you can arrange an unforgettable evening of Italian cuisine. Seasoned in this way, the paste can easily act as an independent dish. For four servings, we need such products:
- 60 milliliters of extra virgin olive oil.
- 2-3 cloves of garlic.
- Dessert spoon of a mixture of Provencal or Italian dried herbs.
- The head of red onion, but you can take ordinary onion.
- One large tomato.
- 5 tablespoons of tomato paste.
- A tablespoon of grape or wine vinegar, nine percent.
- Dessert spoon of granulated sugar.
- 10-12 pieces of olives or olives.
- Half a glass of brine from canned olives, olives.
- Salt and pepper, we take their quantity to your taste.
If desired, chopped fresh greens of dill, parsley and red basil can be added to the pasta sauce from tomato paste.
How to make tomato sauce
It will take you about forty minutes to cook. There are a lot of recipes for pasta sauce with photos, and the best of them are presented in our article. So, in order to prepare such a dressing, we will need to perform the following actions, in a certain sequence.
First you need to peel and chop onions and garlic. After frying them in a pan with a thick bottom in olive oil. Doing this is worth it until they begin to become transparent. On a tomato, make a cross-shaped incision and pour it with boiling water. After carefully remove the skin. Cut the tomato into small cubes and add it to the garlic and onion. Fry vegetables together for two, three minutes.
Then add wine or grape vinegar, ground pepper, dried herbs and juice from canned olives to the same pan. Mix everything until smooth and add granulated sugar and table salt. After that, cook the pasta sauce (you can see the photo below) for about seven minutes.
At this time, rinse the greens well with running water. Better to do it twice. Next, dry the greens on a towel.
After that, add olives or olives, cut into small rings. You can cut into cubes, but better still rings. Add them to an almost ready sauce. Continue to cook until it thickens.
When the sauce is ready, pour them pasta and sprinkle the dish with chopped herbs. Serve hot to the table.
Cheese sauce
You can diversify such a regular dish as pasta by studying recipes with photos of pasta sauce. Following the instructions, you will create a dish not only with a new taste, but also with an original and mouth-watering appearance. In order to please your loved ones and relatives with a delicious dinner, you can prepare an unusual and very satisfying cheese sauce for pasta. With it, pasta can act as an independent dish. It is enough to add a light vegetable salad in addition.
It consists of the following ingredients:
- Wheat flour - 2 tablespoons
- One glass of milk - 200 milliliters.
- A piece of butter weighing about 50 grams;
- Any kind of hard cheese that melts well, 200 grams;
- Italian herbs, salt and pepper. We take their number to your taste.
In addition, fresh herbs (for decorating dishes) are useful to us.
Recipe
Now in more detail about how to make cheese pasta sauce. To do this, heat vegetable oil in a deep pan with a thick bottom. At this time, we grate hard cheese on a fine grater. After that, add to the already well-warmed sunflower or olive oil, wheat flour sifted through a fine sieve. It must be fried until it becomes golden brown.
Then pour in a thin stream into milk. Gently stirring, bring the mixture to a boil. Then, in small portions, constantly stirring, pour grated hard cheese. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed until a completely homogeneous mass is obtained. The more cheese we add, the thicker our pasta sauce will turn out.
Next, add a piece of butter softened at room temperature.
While the sauce has not cooled, pour the pasta with it and mix well. In addition, you can serve the sauce portionwise by pouring it into a saucepan and sprinkling with finely chopped herbs.
Finally
Almost all pasta sauce recipes are easy to make. They do not require special cooking skills, but they can make your dinner varied and hearty. Try every time you cook pasta, serve them some new sauce (cheese, tomato, etc.). In this case, such a banal dish will not bother you for a long time.