Mediterranean Diet recipes: Pasta

• Spanish Fideuá

  

  One of our favourite of the Mediterranean cuisine's masterpieces: the "Fideuá". We recommend you to prepare this recipe with high-quality ingredients (above all the fish) because its success depends to a great extent on them. Use a paella pan if you have the chance, or at least a pan which is suitable for the oven. Serve it with Aioli or mayonnaise.

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• Spaghetti Carbonara

  

  A traditional Italian dish with many variations. Here we present the recipe we learnt from our Italian friends.

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• Orecchiette with arugula and shrimp

  

  The Orecchiette is a kind of home-made pasta typical of Italy. This time we prepared it with some arugula and shrimp but in general it is ideal to combine with vegetable sauces.

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• Penne with meat

  

  One of the basic recipies that helped to boost the Mediterranean cuisine world-wide. Specially kids are huge fans of this traditional recipie.

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• Heart shaped pasta salad

  

  Pasta salad is a very tipical Mediterranean dish. This recipe is our favorite for the summer as it has a lot of raw vegetables that fulfills our desire for a tasty meal with a lot of vitamines.

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• Penne with tuna

  

  A very simple yet tasty pasta dish with the most typical Mediterranean ingredients: tuna, anchovy, black and green olives and, of course, pasta.

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• Gnocchi with Gorgonzola sauce

  

  Italian cuisine is famous for their pizza and pasta, and for us, the best pasta ever is the gnocchi. I guess it is the combination of the flour, potatoes and eggs, the special shape or simply the 3-4 little stripes they press on every single piece of pasta. Whatever it is, it's magic.

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• Pizza dough

  

  The pizza is the masterpiece of the Italian cuisine and - as far as our pizza-making experience tells us - it has 3 secrets: one is the dough, the second one is the tomato sauce (you have to fry the tomato sauce until it gets really dense) and the ability to combine well the ingredients you will put on it. This recipie is the one of the dough and later you will also find the recipies of the combinations we try: Serrano hams with arugula and mozzarella and mushrooms with mozzarella. The amount of dough you will have from this recipie will be enough for 2 big pizzas.

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• Quinoa with vegetables

  

  This simple quinoa recipe is a perfect dinner for a busy weekday.

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• Vegetables with spaghettis

  

  This recipe should be called "Pasta with vegetables" but we intentionally changed its name the moment we realized that the saucepan we needed to cook all the vegetables was twice as big as the one we needed to cook the spaghettis :). Prepare less spaghettis than you normally need per person as the point is to eat two servings of vegetables and one of cereals.

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• Pasta with dried tomatoes and chicken

  

  The combination of dried tomatoes and white wine give a special flavor to this pasta recipe

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• Spaghetti Bolognese

  

  A very popular Italian dish made with ground beef and tomato sauce, one of the specialties of Xef Kuiristo. We recommend to prepare it during the weekend as it takes more than an hour to cook. This time we prepared it with whole-wheat spaghettis to make it healthier ;)

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