Who does not love pasta? It is served in so many ways, by so many different types of cultures. Sure, we watch the carbohydrates, but you can make a pasta dish that is good for you and does not add to your weight. There are many of these dishes.
But pasta by itself is merely starch. It needs a sauce, and it needs a protein. And if you stick to that idea, you can make a dozen pasta meals in your head in one minute.
Pork, lamb, beef, fish, and chicken team up with pasta in a really great way. You can always make meatballs from beef, but you can also make them from ground lamb or veal. And this will change the flavor of the sauce in which it is cooked in a very unique way.
If you like chicken parmesan, this is a great Italian dish that practically screams that it needs a pasta side dish. Fettucini alfredo is also a delicious Italian sauce, except it is white. This goes with chicken also, and you can substitute the fettucini with tortellini, or even wide egg noodles for a variation. Boil some florets of broccoli in the boiling pasta water, and your meal just became more healthy for you.
Sausage is always great in an Italian sauce. Or you can take it out of its casing, and mix the meat in with the sauce as it cooks, making it a meat sauce. If you like hot Italian sausage, this is scrumptious, as well. You should note here that ground beef can be mixed into the sauce as a different type of meat sauce, as well.
Shrimp can be combined with a ravioli dish that is wonderful. You might want to try a condensed cream of mushroom soup, with just a little milk added. This is a variation of alfredo sauce and works well with shrimp, or even with chunks of cod.
Sauces can be white or red, spicy or plain, or they can even be a type of gravy. If you make Swedish meatballs, for example, you will want a brown gravy to go with them and your egg noodles. If you consider rice a kind of pasta, as many do, then this opens up a whole new world of recipes. Chinese and Mexican dishes with rice and gravies, meats or beans, make delicious meals for every day of the week.
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