11 pasta recipes to cook with what you have at home
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Pasta recipes are the stars of everyday cooking, and above all, of emergency cooking. You should never be without a few packets in the pantry to dip into if an unforeseen event arises, such as a trusted guest that you don’t have or, for whatever reason, you can’t shop for a few days.
And to give you ideas, we propose a few delicious and varied pasta recipes among which we have chosen some lighter ones, perfect for dinner and other more hearty ones with which you can eat as a single dish.
With some squid you have in the freezer and canned or frozen mussels you can prepare this tasty recipe for spaghetti with mussels and squid, which has hardly any fat and is rich in protein.
Another classic student favorite recipe, pasta with tuna. If we had a contest for easy, tasty and cheap recipes this would be one of the winners.
That envelope of smoked salmon that you’d make disappear in a flash at snack time, you can stretch it out and turn it into a great dinner for two with this salmon carbonara recipe.
And along the same lines, if you don’t have Parmesan or other aged cheese to make the carbonara, but you have a brick of cream hanging around in the fridge, this pasta with salmon and cream will make you lick your fingers.
Another reinterpretation of carbonara, this time with bacon, cream cheese and macaroni, you can’t believe how good it is.
Or this other recipe that, despite having some personal touches from the chef, is more similar to the original carbonara.
Fusion is the key to many great improvised recipes with what we have around the house, in this case spaghetti, with some shrimp and wild asparagus and the oriental touch of teriyaki sauce.
The gnocchi are not from the cupboard, and even less these that are homemade, but they are made with potatoes and flour and, if there are kids at home, they have a great time. This time we have made them with a cream sauce, blue cheese, spinach and walnuts, but they can be made with almost any sauce you like.
If you have a handful of clams in the freezer, you can treat yourself to a pasta dish like this spaghetti with clams that are to die for.
Salmon is one of the most common fish in the freezer and goes great with pasta as you can see in this recipe for spaghetti with spinach and salmon.
To finish, we propose this pasta recipe with Strogonoff sauce, very easy to make and very tasty that will come in handy to take advantage of that bag of mushrooms that you have been keeping in the freezer for a long time.
