3 Quick Pasta Recipes That Require Only Two Ingredients

3 Quick Pasta Recipes That Require Only Two Ingredients

If you miss Italy as much as we do

During self-isolation, we discovered three unusual recipes for quick and fantastically delicious pasta.

WITH Zucchini AND CHEESE

Ingredients:

Spaghetti Grossi

1-2 medium size zucchini

Cooking method:

Provolone cheese or any hard cheese

Drop pasta into lightly salted boiling water. Simmer for about 5-6 minutes until the pasta is soft but firm. Cut the zucchini into strips or circles, fry in olive oil until dark brown with a head of garlic, salt. Lay out on a paper towel. Pour the pasta into the pan where the zucchini was cooked. Add a couple of tablespoons of the water in which the pasta was cooked. Add zucchini and sprinkle with hard cheese, stirring constantly, adding water from the pan to make a creamy sauce. Garnish with fresh green basil when serving.

WITH TOMATOES AND SQUID

Ingredients:

Pasta Paccheri

Cherry tomatoes – 200 grams

Calamari – 500 grams

Cooking method:

Peel the squids and cut into lengthwise strips. Cut the tomatoes into 4 pieces and throw in a heated pan with olive oil and two cloves of garlic. Salt and sweat until fully cooked. Then add the squid and simmer for a few more minutes. Boil the pasta for a couple of minutes less than indicated on the package, and transfer it to the pan with tomatoes and squid, stirring well. Drizzle with olive oil. When serving, add grated lemon zest and finely chopped parsley with scissors.

WITH TUNA AND TOMATOES

Ingredients:

Pasta Farfalle (in the form of bows)

Cherry tomatoes – 400 grams or ready-made sun-dried tomatoes

Tuna in oil – 1 can

Cooking method:

Cooking tomatoes – cut the cherry tomatoes into halves and put on parchment cut side up. And now the halves need to be sprinkled with olive oil, sprinkled with sugar, salt, finely chopped garlic and grated lemon zest and baked in the oven at 100 degrees for two hours.

Boil the pasta al dente according to the time on the package, cool with cold water, add the tomatoes, tomato juice collected on parchment, and coarsely chopped tuna. When serving, garnish with oregano leaves.