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Pasta in creamy sauce is a very tasty and nutritious dish for any occasion. This dish can not only be served as an independent side dish, but also as an appetizer for many meat or fish dishes. Pasta in sauce can be served not only for everyday lunch, but also on the table during a holiday celebration. The secret of such a versatile dish is the perfect sauce and impeccably beautiful presentation.
Pasta can be seasoned with a variety of cream-based sauces, herbs, garlic and various spices can be added to them.
During cooking, pasta can be enriched with a variety of vegetables, seafood, meat ingredients and fish. Fresh herbs and greens will come in handy. In addition to being a snack-style pasta, pasta can also be cooked in a sweet, creamy sauce.
When serving, the dish can be sprinkled with cheese, sauce and garnished with herbs. Often, pasta in creamy sauce is decorated with nuts, seeds and crispy bacon.
Pasta in creamy sauce - how to cook 15 varieties
- Pasta with shrimp
- Tagliatelle in creamy sauce
- Tortellini with mushrooms and peas
- Pasta with salmon
- Fettuccine with chanterelles
- Pasta with zucchini and seafood
- Tender tortellini with ham
- Pasta with chicken
- Pasta with spinach and shrimp
- Pasta with turkey
- Pasta with broccoli
- Spicy pasta with trout
- Pasta with vegetables and chicken
- Pasta with creamy pesto
- Pasta with porcini mushrooms
Pasta with shrimp
Hearty and flavorful pasta in a creamy garlic sauce is perfect for a holiday meal or a romantic dinner.
Ingredients:
- Butter - 20 g
- Pasta – 250 g
- Parsley - to taste
- Peeled shrimp - 200 g
- Onion - 50 g
- Cream - 150 ml.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
Preparation:
Chop the onion and garlic. Sauté in oil.
Season the vegetables, add shrimp, cream and simmer the sauce until thick. Season with chopped parsley.
Boil the pasta and combine with the sauce.
Pasta with seafood in creamy sauce
This dish can be found on the menus of expensive restaurants. But after reading the recipe, you will understand that you can easily do it yourself.
We will need:
- mixture of seafood (octopus, shrimp, mussels, squid) – 500 g;
- cream – 5 tbsp. l.;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- butter – 20 g;
- Parmesan cheese – 50 g;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- nutmeg – ¼ tsp;
- pepper and salt.
If you don't find a seafood mix, you can buy everything separately. Just note that shrimp, octopus and squid must be peeled. If something is missing, it doesn’t matter.
- Let's start by sautéing onions and garlic in a very hot frying pan in butter.
- As soon as the products become transparent, pour in the seafood mixture without defrosting. Do not reduce the heat, allowing all the liquid to evaporate. It takes 10 minutes for seafood to be ready. If seafood is cooked or fried for a long time, it will become tough.
- Pour the cream into a common container, add spices, salt and grated cheese. As soon as the mass begins to thicken, remove from heat.
During this time, it was possible to cook spaghetti. We combine them with dressing and - voila! Your seafood pasta in creamy sauce is ready.
Tagliatelle in creamy sauce
Delicate pasta with walnuts and cream for a delicious lunch and elegant holiday serving.
Ingredients:
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Tagliatelle – 350 g
- Salt - to taste
- Parsley - 6 sprigs
- Cream - 250 ml.
- Parmesan – 60 g
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Walnuts - 100 g
- Black pepper – 5 g
- Butter - 25 g
Preparation:
Fry the nuts in a dry frying pan.
Sauté chopped garlic in butter. Add chopped onion and parsley.
After sautéing, it is better to remove the garlic to prevent the appearance of bitterness from such a spice.
Pour cream into the vegetables, and also add chopped nuts.
Reduce the sauce by more than half. Add cooked pasta and season the dish to taste.
Sprinkle the finished tagliatelle with grated Parmesan.
In creamy mushroom sauce
This is perhaps the most flavorful pasta sauce available.
Prepare:
- 500 g fresh champignons;
- 40 g butter;
- 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- 200 g sour cream;
- large onion;
- salt;
- ½ tsp. nutmeg (ground);
- Bay leaf.
- pepper mixture.
Today for dinner you will have the most delicious pasta with mushrooms in a creamy sauce!
Let's get started:
- Let's start by preparing the champignons, which we rinse well under running water, wipe with a kitchen towel and remove the blackened areas. It is better to cut them into thin slices so that they stand out in the sauce.
- We begin to fry the mushroom slices over high heat until all the moisture has evaporated from them. To saute mushrooms, always use two types of oil: butter and vegetable. The latter will prevent them from darkening during heat treatment.
- Now add the chopped onion and fry for a few more minutes.
- Place sour cream in a frying pan. The desired consistency can be achieved using any broth or boiled water.
- It's time for salt and seasoning. Let the sauce simmer a little more, after which it can be placed on plates where the pasta is already conveniently placed.
This recipe can be complicated by adding fried pieces of some meat.
Delicious recipe: pasta with stew
Tortellini with mushrooms and peas
Delicious and very piquant pasta in a delicate cream sauce.
Ingredients:
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Mushrooms – 800 g
- Green peas – 50 g
- Dor blue cheese – 50 g
- Pack of tortellini - 250 g
- Cream - 200 ml.
Preparation:
Wash the mushrooms, cut into slices and fry in a mixture of butter and vegetable oil. At the end of frying, add garlic to the mushrooms. Afterwards, pour in the cream and crumbled Dor Blue cheese.
Boil the tortellini. Add to sauce and simmer for about 2 minutes.
When serving, sprinkle the dish with peas.
With mushrooms
Creamy mac and cheese goes great with any mushroom. It is especially good to prepare this dish in summer and autumn, at the height of the mushroom season. But even if you can’t get a forest harvest, store-bought varieties of mushrooms also turn out great.
For best results, just quickly fry them in a hot frying pan and then add them to the creamy sauce.
What ingredients will you need?
- 4 tbsp. l. olive oil;
- 500g mixed mushrooms (button mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, cremini and/or shiitake mushrooms), cut into bite-sized pieces;
- kosher salt;
- 2 medium shallots, finely chopped;
- 450 g spaghetti or bucatini;
- 0.5 tbsp. heavy cream;
- 0.3 tbsp. finely chopped parsley;
- zest and juice from half a lemon;
- 2 tbsp. l. unsalted butter, cut into pieces;
- 0.5 tbsp. finely grated Parmesan, plus extra for serving;
- freshly ground pepper.
Step-by-step cooking process
- You need to heat 2 tbsp. l. olive oil over moderate heat in a wide skillet, arrange half the mushrooms in a single layer and cook, undisturbed, until edges begin to brown and begin to crisp, about 3 minutes.
- Then turn the mushroom pieces over and continue cooking, stirring occasionally, until all sides are browned and crisp, about 5 minutes more. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the mushrooms to a plate and sprinkle with salt.
- Next, you need to repeat the previous steps with the remaining mushrooms and vegetable oil.
- Once done, turn down the heat and return the mushrooms to the pan, add the shallots and cook, stirring frequently, until translucent and softened, about 2 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large saucepan of boiling salted water, stirring occasionally, until it reaches al dente (2 minutes before the cooking time indicated in the instructions).
- Using tongs, transfer the pasta to the pan with the mushrooms and pour in the cream and 1 tbsp. pasta broth, increase heat to moderate, boil and cook, stirring constantly, until the liquid thickens slightly, about 3 minutes, then remove from heat.
- Next, add lemon zest and juice, parsley, butter, Parmesan and a lot of black pepper to the pasta sauce, and mix quickly. Divide the finished dish into serving bowls and sprinkle with additional Parmesan cheese.
Pasta with salmon
Hearty and very healthy pasta with salmon in a delicate creamy sauce is suitable for absolutely any occasion - both for festive and everyday serving.
Ingredients:
- Parmesan - to taste
- Salmon – 150 g
- Cilantro - 1/2 tsp.
- Pasta – 150 g
- Ground pepper - 3 g
- Cream - 100 ml.
- Basil - 1/2 tsp.
- Butter - 25 g
Preparation:
Boil any type of pasta.
Chop the fish into cubes and finely chop the greens.
Fry the fish in butter, add cream. Simmer the sauce for about 2 minutes, and then add pasta and herbs.
Garnish the finished pasta with grated Parmesan.
Fettuccine with salmon in cream sauce
To make your kitchen dish even more reminiscent of Italy, buy special long and flat Fettuccine noodles. You can immediately put a saucepan with water for the pasta, but for now let’s make the sauce.
We will need:
- 300 ml heavy cream;
- salt;
- 300 g fresh salmon;
- 50 g butter;
- 1 onion;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- basil;
- oregano;
- cilantro;
- pepper.
Any fish can be used. For example, pink salmon or chum salmon will make a leaner sauce, but to make it fattier, take trout or salmon.
- Chop the peeled onion into cubes and fry with butter until transparent.
- Pour cream into it and add salmon, which has previously been defrosted and cut into any shape.
- Pour in the spices and simmer all the components of the dish for at least 5 minutes (depending on the size of the fish pieces).
- Decorate the finished pasta with creamy sauce with fresh herbs.
Fettuccine with chanterelles
A fragrant and very tasty pasta for a festive feast or a romantic date.
Ingredients:
- Salt - to taste
- Chanterelles - 200 g
- Parsley - 1/2 bunch
- Cream - 180 ml.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp.
- Fettuccine pasta - 200 g
- Pepper - 2 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
Preparation:
Boil the fettuccine until half cooked.
Chop the onion and sauté in butter with chanterelles. At the end of cooking, add cream and chopped parsley.
Combine pasta with sauce and cook for about 3 minutes. Bring to taste and serve.
With ham
Baked macaroni with ham and cheese in a creamy sauce can be reheated several times, and this dish can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 days. Nutmeg, which is an ideal spice for white sauce, adds special notes of taste and aroma here. However, it is easy to overdo it.
Therefore, you need to start by adding a small amount (0.25 tsp), and then add more if necessary.
What ingredients will you need?
- 450 g fusilli pasta;
- 4 tbsp. l. unsalted butter;
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced;
- 4 tbsp. l. flour;
- 2.5 tbsp. milk;
- 0.5 tbsp. heavy cream;
- 1 tbsp. water;
- 0.25 tsp ground nutmeg (or more to taste);
- 1 tsp. ground black pepper (or more to taste);
- 1 tsp. all-purpose Italian seasoning (or a mixture of dried oregano, thyme and basil);
- 0.75 tsp. salt plus extra for cooking pasta;
- About 1 tbsp. finely grated parmesan cheese;
- about 1 tbsp. finely grated mozzarella cheese;
- 300g diced ham (about 2 tbsp);
- 0.25 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley;
- 0.25 tbsp. chopped green onions or leeks.
Step-by-step cooking process
- Place a large pot of salted water over high heat, wait until it boils, add the pasta and stir to prevent sticking. Next, you need to let the water boil again and cook the pasta, uncovered, for 9-10 minutes, until it is al dente.
- In the meantime, you need to melt the butter in a large separate (3-4 l) saucepan with a thick bottom, put chopped garlic in it, and leave for a few seconds.
- After this, add flour and whisk until all lumps dissolve. Next, the roux needs to cook for a minute or two.
- Then you need to slowly pour in the milk and cream (a quarter cup at a time), whisking after each addition, and increase the heat from low to moderate.
- When everything is mixed, you need to add 0.25 tsp. ground nutmeg, 0.5 tsp. black pepper and 0.5 tsp. Italian seasoning, and half each of the mozzarella and Parmesan, whisking until melted and incorporated into the sauce. Next you should add 0.75 tsp. salt (or more) and 2 tbsp. water (it is better to use pasta broth).
- The oven must be preheated to 200°C.
- Then you need to carefully but thoroughly mix the pasta with the sauce, ham, parsley and chopped green onions. After this, it is recommended to taste the dish and adjust the amount of nutmeg, salt, pepper or Italian seasoning.
- Place the pasta with the sauce and all the toppings in an ovenproof baking dish, sprinkle the remaining cheese on top and bake in the oven at 200°C for 10-15 minutes until the cheese is bubbly and lightly browned on top.
Pasta with zucchini and seafood
Vitamin-rich and very tasty pasta for a diet lunch.
Ingredients:
- Cream - 400 ml.
- Pepper - 5 g
- Pasta Paolo – 500 g
- Salt - to taste
- Peeled shrimp - 400 g
- Olive oil
- Salmon fillet – 400 g
- Fresh herbs - to taste
- Zucchini - 1 pc.
- Parmesan cheese - to taste
- Garlic - 3 cloves
Preparation:
Cut the salmon and zucchini into cubes, and the garlic into thin slices.
Boil the pasta.
The water should be salted and the pasta should be cooked al dente - until half cooked.
Fry the garlic with the salmon. After 4 minutes, add the zucchini shrimp.
After 2 minutes, pour cream over the mixture, add herbs and cheese.
Cook the sauce for about five minutes and then add the pasta. Cook the dish for another 20 minutes until the pasta is soft.
Bring to taste and serve.
Other recipes for spaghetti with creamy sauce
You can add a little white wine to the sauce with cream, then the dish will acquire a slightly tart taste, which true gourmets love so much. When preparing this sauce, wine is added before mixing the cream and pan-fried bacon and garlic. The wine is poured directly into the frying pan with garlic and bacon and kept on fire until all the alcohol has evaporated.
Sometimes, instead of bacon, vegetables, such as finely chopped tomatoes and bell peppers, are placed in a frying pan along with garlic. This spaghetti will appeal to those who are on a diet or who do not tolerate eating bacon.
You can make the sauce without adding eggs. Then the cream, mixed with spices, is simply poured into the bacon with garlic and the sauce is brought to a boil, and then boiled spaghetti is added to the finished sauce. Already on top of such a dish, sprinkle grated cheese and keep it for some time under the lid so that the cheese melts.
An interesting and educational video about preparing the dish: “Spaghetti with cream according to a classic recipe from Italy”:
Tender tortellini with ham
A hearty and tasty dish for a nutritious lunch.
Ingredients:
- Cream - 150 ml.
- Tortellini – 400 g
- Butter - 50 g
- Ham – 150 g
- Shallot - 1 pc.
Preparation:
Boil the tortellini completely.
Chop the ham and shallots. Sauté the onion in butter, add the ham and fry until golden brown.
Pour in the cream and add the pasta. Simmer the dish for about 3 minutes and serve.
Pasta in cream with broccoli
The recipe with champignons and cabbage is perfect for dinner.
You will need:
- in equal quantities (150 g) of champignons and broccoli;
- 150 ml heavy cream;
- salt;
- 30 g butter;
- favorite spices.
Let's prepare it like this:
- We separate the cabbage into inflorescences, place in a colander and blanch (dip in boiling water for 3 minutes).
- We wash the mushrooms, chop them and fry them together with the broccoli in butter. Now you can add seasonings (oregano, basil).
- After 5 - 6 minutes, pour the contents of the pan with cream and simmer a little. All is ready.
Pasta with chicken
A tender dish with chicken and creamy sauce for a quick but healthy snack.
Ingredients:
- Vegetable oil
- Chicken fillet – 400 g
- Spicy herbs - 5 g
- Packaging of pasta - 400 g
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Cream - 200 ml.
- Salt - to taste
- Green peas – 50 g
Preparation:
Boil any type of pasta.
Cut the garlic into slices and sauté in butter. Add chopped chicken and cream. Boil the sauce until thick, and then add the peas.
You can easily thicken the sauce with butter or flour.
Add boiled pasta and spices. Bring to taste and serve.
Pasta with spinach and shrimp
Healthy and very tasty pasta for a vitamin-rich and satisfying dinner.
Ingredients:
- Paste – 200 g
- Red onion – 20 g
- King prawns – 300 g
- Salt - to taste
- Fresh spinach - 150 g
- Garlic - 4 cloves
- Grated Parmesan - 50 g
- Broccoli - 100 g
- Pepper - 5 g
- Cream - 150 ml
Preparation:
Boil the pasta until al dente.
Fry broccoli and shrimp. Add chopped onion and garlic slices to the ingredients.
Finally add spinach, grated Parmesan and cream. Bring the sauce to taste.
Place the pasta on plates, pour over the aromatic sauce and sprinkle with herbs.
Pasta with turkey
Hearty and delicious pasta with shrimp and white sauce for a satisfying lunch. This dish is perfect as a holiday snack.
Ingredients:
- Turkey fillet – 250 g
- Dried basil - 10 g
- Cream - 250 ml.
- Olive oil - 40 ml.
- Shrimp – 200 g
- Dried dill - 10 g
- Garlic -10 g
- Dried parsley -10 g
- Tagliatelle – 250 g
Preparation:
Boil tagliatelle until half cooked.
Cut the turkey into small pieces and fry in butter. Add shrimp and garlic cloves to the meat.
Next, add cream and herbs to the meat and shrimp. Boil the finished sauce.
Pour the prepared shrimp and meat sauce over the pasta.
Pasta with broccoli
A dietary dish for those watching their figure.
For the dietary version of pasta, you should choose macarano made from durum wheat.
Ingredients:
- Salt
- Paste – 250 g
- Black pepper
- Broccoli – 380 g
- Cream - 250 ml.
- Chicken broth - 200 ml.
- Olive oil - 20 ml.
- Parsley - 2 tbsp.
- Chicken fillet – 500 g
- Butter - 40 g.
- Dry garlic - 1/4 tsp.
- Flour - 50 g
- Hard cheese - 125 g
Preparation:
Boil any type of pasta - your choice.
Blanch the broccoli for two minutes.
Cut the chicken into pieces and fry, seasoning with spices.
Separately, melt the butter and fry the flour. Then pour in the broth and cream. Reduce the sauce by adding cheese.
Then add broccoli, chicken and chopped parsley to the prepared sauce.
Serve the pasta to the table.
Bacon recipe
Let's prepare spaghetti in creamy sauce with bacon based on the Carbonara recipe.
Ingredients:
- 150 ml cream;
- 100 bacon;
- seasonings;
- 2 egg yolks;
- ½ cup cream;
- 50 g Parmesan;
- 100 g Mozzarella;
- 2 tbsp. l. olive oil;
- pepper;
- red onion;
- garlic;
- salt.
Let's prepare it like this:
- Cut the bacon into thin strips and fry in oil.
- After a couple of minutes, add the chopped onion and chopped garlic.
- As soon as everything is slightly fried, pour in the thoroughly whipped mixture of cream and yolks and, stirring vigorously, add Parmesan cubes. Let's turn down the fire.
- When the mass begins to thicken, add half of the grated Mozzarella cheese, salt and pepper the almost finished dish.
- Having achieved homogeneity of the sauce, turn off the stove.
Place the spaghetti on the plate first, then pour the sauce over it and sprinkle with the remaining cheese.
Spicy pasta with trout
The secret to this recipe is alcohol, which not only thickens the sauce, but also allows the fish to retain its shape.
Ingredients:
- Paste – 200 g
- Vodka - 50 ml.
- Cream - 150 ml.
- Nutmeg – 2 g
- Trout – 100 grams
- Black pepper - 2 g
- Butter - 20 g
Preparation:
Boil the pasta until fully cooked.
Melt the butter, add cream and bring the mixture to a boil. Add trout pieces and nutmeg. Bring to a smooth consistency and pour vodka into the sauce.
Evaporate the alcohol and add the pasta.
Serve the pasta to the table.
Italian dishes
You can’t doubt the benefits of Italian dishes for a minute, because Italians watch their figure and will not eat foods that are unhealthy. And even though they often cook spaghetti and pasta, they do not gain excess weight. The whole secret is that for preparing Italian dishes, pasta is selected from durum wheat. Spaghetti can also be made from durum wheat, which will not lead to excess weight gain, and in small quantities it will perfectly saturate the body even without any hearty additions in the form of meat.
Spaghetti with cream is also an Italian dish that is traditionally prepared by all Italians very often and which is called pasta carbonara with cream. In addition, this dish has won the interest of all chefs from all over the world and it is present on the menu of many cafes and restaurants.
There are a lot of options for preparing this dish, but there is also a classic recipe that is quite easy to remember and by preparing the dish just once, it can be quite easily prepared again and again.
Pasta with vegetables and chicken
A hearty, complete dish for lunch or dinner.
Ingredients:
- Butter - 30 g
- Marjoram - 1/3 tsp.
- Penne paste – 500 g
- Pepper - 5 g
- Chicken breast – 500 g
- Canned peas - 1 can
- Broccoli – 500 g
- Basil - 1/3 tsp
- Cream - 450 ml.
- Salt - to taste
- Parmesan cheese - 140 g
- Olive oil
- Lemon juice - 20 ml.
- Carrots – 300 g
- Oregano - 1/3 tsp.
- Garlic - 3 cloves
Preparation:
Chop the chicken into pieces, divide the broccoli into florets, and cut the carrots into strips. Grate Parmesan and chop garlic.
Marinate the chicken in herbs, salt and lemon juice.
Prepare the sauce by boiling the cream along with the Parmesan cheese. Then pour a spoonful of oil into the sauce and add pepper.
Fry the garlic in oil along with the marinated chicken. Add broccoli, carrots and peas, followed by the sauce. Simmer for about 5 minutes.
Cook the pasta al dente and add to the sauce. Cook for another two minutes and serve!
Pasta with creamy pesto
Savory pasta with grilled chicken and pesto for a very filling dinner. Suitable as a quick meal option.
Ingredients:
- Fresh herbs - 1 bunch
- Grilled chicken – 200 g
- Hard cheese - 3 tbsp.
- Pepper - to taste
- Paste – 150 g
- Lime juice - 2 tbsp.
- Cream - 5 tbsp.
- Sun-dried tomatoes - 6 pcs.
- Fresh basil - 1 bunch
- Starch - 1 tbsp.
- Pine nuts - 2 tbsp.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
Preparation:
Boil the pasta al dente.
Disassemble the chicken into pieces and finely chop.
Cut the tomatoes into strips.
Beat the nuts with basil, garlic, lime juice and cheese. Add the mixture to the boiling cream and thicken the sauce with starch.
Add pasta to sauce. Cook for about 2 minutes, and then sprinkle with chopped herbs.
