If youre interested in giving a recipe for carbonara a try, go for this one from Serious Eats. As the recipe headnote mentions, pasta with carbonara is a simple and easy dish. The challenge is to make sure you combine the ingredients in such a way that the sauce has a silky and smooth texture (and that the eggs dont get accidentally scrambled in the process). This recipe uses mostly yolks rather than whole eggs for a silky and rich texture and flavor. It also opts for a mixture of Pecorino Romano and Parmigiano-Reggiano as the cheeses, so that the end result isnt too salty. When it comes to homemade pasta sauce recipes, the ingredients for carbonara are great to keep on hand when youre looking to mix up your spaghetti routine.
Bon Apptit makes what they call BAs Best Pesto, and they say that the key to this classic recipe is to add the basil at the end (instead of blending the ingredients together all at once). In doing so, the basil will maintain both its color and its flavor. After the pesto is created, its added to pasta in a big bowl with butter, seasoned with salt, and topped with grated Parmesan cheese.
If you make a large batch of pesto, you can spread it on sandwiches or top your chicken with it. You can also freeze your pesto in ice cube trays to have it on hand for a delicious and simple weeknight meal.
Once you get the hang of traditional pesto (we promise, its easy!) you can explore pesto variations like our own recipe for Hemp Pesto. This creative alternative to traditional pesto calls for fresh basil leaves, Hulled Hemp Seed, grated Parmesan, minced garlic, salt and extra virgin olive oil. You can serve it on pasta, rice, cold salads or as a spread or dip.
This traditional Cacio e Pepe recipe from Gimme Some Oven takes 20 minutes to throw together using just four ingredients: pasta, butter, freshly cracked coarse black pepper and freshly grated Pecorino or Parmesan cheese (or a mix of both). For extra flavor, you can saut a couple cloves of minced garlic in the butter, too. We love this recipe because it proves that simple can often be the most wonderful and tastiest way to go.
If youve yet to try making clam sauce, youre in for a treat! This recipe for spaghetti with clam sauce from Errens Kitchen is made with an indulgent white wine sauce of clams and clam juice, butter, olive oil, lemon zest, fresh parsley, salt and pepper.
Give this dish a try during the week or save it for a slow Sunday supper, paired with a glass of crisp white wine.
Our own Chef Billy Parisi starts his recipe by creating homemade noodles with Bobs Red Mill Semolina Pasta Flour. From there, he crisps up some Italian bacon (pancetta) then adds blended onions, celery, carrots and garlic, followed by ground pork, ground beef and Sangiovese wine. After it cooks for a bit, the sauce is simmered in pureed tomato, beef stock, bay leaves and a Parmesan cheese rind for at least 60 minutes.
The result is a red-hued meat sauce like youve never had! Leave it to Chef Billy to put his own fantastic twist on a classic sauce.
