Any healthy, tasty pasta recipes?

Answer 1

Mushroom Walnut Sauce for Pasta

2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
8 oz. Mushrooms - sliced
1/4 C. Walnuts - chopped
3/4 C. Heavy whipping cream
1/4 tsp. Black pepper
1/2 C. Fresh Parmesan - grated

Heat olive oil in large skillet over medium heat. Saute mushrooms and walnuts until mushrooms are golden. Add cream and cook stirring frequently for 5 minutes until slightly thickened. Turn heat to warm and when cream stops simmering, add pepper and Parmesan and stir until sauce is smooth. Do not boil. Serve over pasta. Especially good w/ stuffed pastas.
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Pasta Puttanesca

2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
4 to 6 cloves garlic, chopped
1 tin flat anchovy fillets, drained
½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
20 oil-cured black olives, pitted and coarsely chopped
3 Tbsp. capers
1 (32-oz) can crushed tomatoes
1 (14.5-oz) can diced tomatoes, drained
A few grinds black pepper
1/4 cup flat leaf parsley, chopped
1 pound spaghetti, cooked to al dente
Crusty bread, for mopping
Grated Parmigiano Reggiano or Romano, for garnish

Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add oil, garlic, anchovies, and crushed pepper. Saute mixture until anchovies melt into oil and completely dissolve and garlic is tender, about 3 minutes: your kitchen never smelled so good! Add olives, capers, tomatoes, black pepper, and parsley. Bring sauce to a bubble, reduce heat, and simmer 8 to 10 minutes.

Toss sauce with cooked pasta. Pass bread and cheese at the table. Serve w/ salad of baby greens, simple dressed.

--Rachael Ray

Answer 2

Shrimp, Broccoli, and Sun-dried Tomatoes Scampi with Angel Hair
INGREDIENTS
1/2 pound large shrimp - peeled and deveined
2 cups fresh broccoli florets
1 (6 ounce) jar sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, drained and chopped
1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
4 tbs butter
1/4 cup dry white wine
Juice of 1 Lemon
1 (8 ounce) package angel hair pasta
DIRECTIONS
Put the heat on under the pasta pot full of water.
In a large saute pan heat the oil from the drained sun-dried tomatoes. Add butter. When butter is melted saute the garlic about 1 minute, add the sun-dried tomatoes, heat for about 1 minute. Add shelled and deveined shrimp. Cook until shrimp are done, about 5-8 minutes. Stir in wine.
When pasta water comes to a boil, toss in the broccoli florets. Cook about 2-3 minutes. Then add angel hair. Cook according to package instructions. Drain and turn into large past bowl.
Spoon shrimp mixture over pasta and serve. Top with Parmessian cheese.

Answer 3

Garlic-broccoli and sun dried tomato pasta

1 box of bowties pasta
3-5 cloves of garlic
half a head of broccoli
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 a cup sun dried tomatoes (the kind you get in a jar)
Parmesan and mozzarella cheese to taste
salt to taste

Cook pasta, and set aside. Then saute garlic in olive oil until cooked (slightly golden). Add broccoli and cook until broccoli is cooked to your preference. Mix together broccoli and garlic mixer with pasta , sun dried tomatoes, cheese, salt and add more olive oil if desired. Serve with warm garlic bread.

Answer 4

This one is simple to make as well as light and healthy. Just take your pasta and cook it as usual, drizzle with olive oil and open a can of stewed italian tomatoes (preferabley organic) and pour over pasta! serve it up with some parmesan cheese and chopped fresh basil

Answer 5

ok well i dont noe how to make this, but its rlly good and i noe the ingrdients. my mom makes this thing called pasta salad and the ingredients are:
-the curly looking green, orange and white pasta
- olives
-crab meat
-jalepenos

and it always tastes a little creamy. after cooking it she puts it in the fridge for 2 hours so it gets cold (unless u like it wen its hot)
it sounds pretty wierd but its delicious