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Quick pasta: recipes for easy, but always high-quality first courses

Do you have little time to prepare lunch or dinner? Are you looking for recipes for a quick pasta dish? Don’t worry, Spaghetti e Mandolino offers you a solution to help. There are many ingredients that don’t require hours and hours at the stove and will allow you to create tasty and flavorful dishes. Cold pasta, pasta with a simple sauce, pasta with vegetables are just a few recipes that you can create in no time. With our typical Italian products and our suggestions, you won't have to worry about having little time to cook anymore!
 

Quick Pasta: Simple and Tasty Recipes

Are you looking for a quick and tasty pasta? With our typical products, you will be ready to create one of the best quick first courses you've ever tasted.
It often happens that you come home and have very little time to cook, and at the same time, you don’t want to give up on a healthy and substantial dish. That’s why we propose quick first course recipes that are very simple to cook.
Let’s start with a quick first course based on spaghetti and cherry tomatoes. As you may have guessed, we are talking about quick pasta "allo scarpariello," one of the easiest recipes to prepare. On our website Spaghetti & Mandolino, you will find useful ingredients to prepare this first course: garlic, pecorino, extra virgin olive oil, basil, and chili pepper, along with the essential tomato puree.
One of the best and simplest quick first course recipes to prepare.


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Another delicious recipe for a quick and tasty pasta is a pasta with Genoese pesto (discover here the content dedicated to "all the types of pesto that exist in Italy"), a very flavorful and delicious quick first course. Its preparation takes a maximum of 10 minutes, the time needed to cook the pasta. On our site, you can find a delicious Genoese pesto that recalls tradition both in preparation and flavors.
Finally, we recommend trying a quick and tasty pasta based on pacchetella del Piennolo del Vesuvio and smoked scamorza cheese. We are talking about one of the quick first course recipes that is flavorful with a strong taste, thanks to the intense flavor of the smoked scamorza.

 

Quick Baked Pasta: Recipes for Quick First Courses

Imagine a pan of baked pasta steaming, with melting cheese, beautiful to look at and delicious to taste. Think of the aroma that wafts from the oven when you open it to take this delicious quick baked pasta. Exactly, baked pasta is a quick recipe and simple to prepare because, contrary to what one might think, it requires little preparation time.
You only need a few ingredients to prepare a quick and tasty pasta: caramelized red onions, basil, tomato puree, extra virgin olive oil, and Parmigiano Reggiano (see our selection of Parmigiano Reggiano).

Start by cooking the tomato puree with the red onions in a saucepan, adding salt and cooking for about 10 minutes. At the end of cooking, add some fresh basil leaves that you can find on our e-commerce site, and preheat the oven to 190°. Once the pasta is cooked, place it in a bowl and season it with the sauce, oil, and Parmigiano Reggiano. Mix the ingredients and transfer them to a baking dish and bake for 14-15 minutes. Delicious, hot, melty, and with an irresistible aroma: here is the quick baked pasta!
 

Quick Cold Pasta: Choose Your Favorite

Quick cold pasta is another of the recipes for quick first courses that requires little preparation time. They are ideal for when you have little time available but don’t want to give up the taste and goodness of a first course.
Try making a caprese cold pasta salad, light, healthy, and delicious. Usually, quick cold pasta is ideal to enjoy in summer as it is very fresh and light. The cold pasta salad with cherry tomatoes and shredded mozzarella can be prepared in the time it takes to cook the pasta, that is, 10 minutes, at most 15.
If you love fish, try the recipe for cold pasta with salmon, potatoes, and pesto, a quick cold pasta dish that is perfect for cooking a delicious dish in no time.

Finally, we also propose a delicious recipe based on fresh and quality ingredients that you can find on our site. We propose a recipe based on zucchini, cherry tomatoes, and pesto, a very delicious quick cold pasta recipe that you can enrich with breadcrumbs to give a crunchy touch to your lunch.
This pasta is delicious when freshly prepared but is also very good enjoyed cold, in short, the perfect lunch to bring to the office.
Let's see together how to prepare this recipe for quick first courses. You can buy a ready-made pesto that you'll find on our e-commerce site, an artisanal pesto with a unique and homemade flavor. Start with the zucchini, chop them, and cook them in a pan, then add the cherry tomatoes at the end of cooking. In the meantime, put a pot with plenty of salted water on the fire, and when it boils, add the pasta.
Once the pasta is also cooked, place it in a container along with the zucchini and cherry tomatoes. Finally, season everything with the pesto and some Grana Padano, mix and let it rest for a few minutes. You can enjoy it warm or store it in the fridge and consume it within two days.
 

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Quick and Tasty Pasta: Dress It with Ready Sauces

If you are not a fan of cooking, don’t worry, we offer you a wide selection of ready sauces perfect for creating a quick and tasty pasta.
For vegetarians, we propose delicious sauces based on vegetables such as Genoese pesto, zucchini bruschetta, walnut sauce, and red radicchio pesto from Verona or even Paccasassi pesto. You can create truly flavorful first courses in no time, the perfect solution for those who have little time to cook or don’t love spending time in the kitchen.

The ready sauces are made with love and passion just like you would at home, in fact, the flavor is also intense and homey. The meats used are all top quality and first choice. You can find a tasty norma sauce, a cinta senese sauce, hare ragù, or even chianina ragù. These ready sauces will give a tasty and flavorful touch to your quick and tasty pasta and the preparation time is a maximum of 10 minutes!

On our site of Spaghetti & Mandolino, you will find many ready sauces, different types of pasta, and many high-quality ingredients, ideal for creating your quick pasta!

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