What foods or sauces do you mix with your spaghetti? Share your spaghetti secrets.
When making your red sauce add a 1/4 tsp of ground star anise.
Green canister parm is better than no parm.
Don’t buy sauce. Get a 28 ounce can of crushed tomatoes and season it before simmering for at least 40 minutes.
Brass extruded pasta is so much better for gripping sauce.
Garlic bread can be made with olive oil instead of butter.
If you aren’t adding a pinch or red pepper flakes to your red sauce you should be shamed.
This individual spaghettis.
I’m grew up Italian. I default to Mexican (as my posts in c/cooking will show) but I learned Italian first.
Garlic cheese bread.
A classic
cheap white wine in my lemony-caper sauce (Piccata?) i love it sooo much i could immerse myself in it (not recommended).
I converted my partner and my kid to the “real Genovese pesto”.
Recipe: half trofie (or any pasta), half small cut potatoes, same quantity of fresh green beens. Boil all together (requires a certain eye to determine when to trow each item in, but the original recipe is adamant this is the only way). Drain and add copious pesto sauce Encourage to add grated parmigiano or pecorino on your plate.
We love it so much, my partner has learned to make pesto from scratch and it’s better than most if not all commercially available ones.
Absolutely, the best basil for pesto. We also make it ourselves but due to where I am it’s cheaper to use macademia nuts instead of pinenuts. Going to try your potato bean concoction this week with it.
This sounds fantastic! Thanks for sharing
carbonara, aglio e olio; in restaurants also frutti di mare
Other pasta sauces I like are pesto and bolognese, but those work better with other pasta shapes than spaghetti.
<3 frutti di mare <3 I have to learn to make it.
I always assume “spaghetti” is the general name for Italian pasta, that includes spaghetti and other pasta shapes. Maybe this community has a more restrictive interpretation!
Brown a protein in a pan, add a can of drained mushrooms and an onion, add a can of diced tomatoes, salt and pepper, some Italian seasoning, and diced garlic then throw the cooked spaghetti in.
I add herbs to the noodle water even before salting
I like it.
I like to do pureed tomatoes with a dollop of unsweetened peanut butter. Makes it creamy and really stick to the spaghet.
I haven’t heard of peanut butter used before. Interesting!
Erm, me neither. This combination came out of my own experimentation. 🙃
I do feel like peanut-butter-based recipes have a harder time spreading, though, because you just don’t want one of your guests to find out they’re allergic while visiting you…
This is a good point. You almost need a sign on your front door to warn dinner guests: “This house may contain nut”.
I’m not a huge fan of cooked tomatoes, but I love peanut butter. I must try this.
I make a great puttanesca.
It’s been years since I’ve had some puttanesca. Core memory from childhood
