Try your hand at homemade fresh pasta using our comprehensive guide and serve it with this stunning sauce! We all know that pasta is nothing without a good sauce. Different sauces give pasta life and bring incredible variety to our dinner table.
Pasta Sauce Recipes
It’s so helpful to know a few good pasta sauce recipes, which could be quickly whipped up in a matter of minutes. When I crave a creamy pasta I turn this my easy 3 Ingredient Pasta Cream Sauce. It’s a simple sauce that could become the base for so many recipes. Another quick sauce recipe, that I love, takes FIVE minutes to make and is absolutely perfect for stuffed pasta like ravioli or tortellini. My classic Bolognese Sauce is what I turn to when I have more time in the kitchen and don’t mind a pot of sauce slowly braising for hours on my stovetop. The vodka sauce is another quick recipe. It is also an absolute classic. It does take longer than 5 minutes but the process is simple and straightforward. The origin of it is Italian American. And the most common pasta used for the sauce is penne but feel free to experiment with the pasta shape you love most. For example, I am using casarecce here. It is one of my favourite pasta shapes. I love that each piece is first rolled and then slightly twisted creating grooves, which vodka sauce pulls in! This pasta holds smooth and creamy sauces perfectly!
Ingredients
Vodka sauce starts as a tomato sauce flavoured with onion, garlic and basil just like a basic sauce you’d use for spaghetti but there are a couple of twists involved, that change everything. First of all, you spike the sauce with a shot of vodka. What does it do? I used it to deglaze the pan, which releases the flavour into the sauce. Vodka also adds a nice kick…almost like an infusion of spice to the sweet tasting and rich sauce. Lastly, you hit the tomato sauce with some heavy cream, and this is where magic happens. First, the colour changes from a deep red to orange. Then the sauce becomes less acidic through the addition of cream and it’s a very good thing! What you end up with is silky smooth sauce, that can be added to anything. Traditionally it’s served with pasta but you can can actually serve it with chicken, fish or seafood. Yum! My Shrimp Penne alla Vodka is a good example of it!
More Pasta Sauce Recipes
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