Meatless Pasta Recipes
Easy and fast recipes made with few ingredients. The simplicity of these preparations does not sacrifice on taste. Some dishes are delicate and have a distinguished flavor of the main ingredient used to accompany the pasta, some recipes have strong accent of the Sicilian seasoning or characteristic of the product used to make the sauce.
Shell Pasta with Ricotta
This simple dish is tasty, easy to make and very popular in Sicily. It is made with few and healthy ingredients, and can be easily prepared in a short time. Mr. Frank Curcurato suggested this recipe...
Pasta with Butter and Cheese
This dish is made with boiled pasta, cheese and butter. Some people may say: Sicilian using butter? But butter is used in Sicily for baking, to make some gourmet dishes....
Spaghettini Pesto & Eggplants -Trapani Style
This dish has characteristics and flavors different from similar sauces originally made in other parts of Sicily. The province of Trapani is the largest producer of capers and anchovies: these two fundamental components of the ...
Joe's Heartily Sicilian Style Pasta
At Joe’s of Avenue U, the focacceria Palermitana on Avenue U in Brooklyn NY, we cooked only one type of pasta, every day with a different sauce. One time we were in the mood of experimenting and we came up with the following delicious recipe; it was well liked by our customers and...
Pasta alla Carrettiera
I made this sauce at Joe’s of Avenue U, in Brooklyn, NY, and when my customers asked for the recipe, they would not believe I was giving the accurate recipe, because the recipe has very few ingredients and requires little skill to make...
Fusilli Eggplants and Peppers
This sauce, made in Syracuse and in the eastern part of Sicily, combines the faint bitterness of the eggplants, the sweetness of the peppers, the pungent flavor of the capers, the strong taste of anchovies...
Spaghetti with Eggplants - Palermo Style
This dish is exclusively “Palermitano” and very popular in Palermo. Spaghetti is mandatory in this recipe; cook spaghetti in the full length without breaking it up into short pieces. I still remember...
Spaghettini with Eggplants - Trapani Style
This dish is made very quickly and from start to finish should take less than one hour. This sauce has characteristics and flavors different from similar sauce originally made in other parts of Sicily.
Pasta Frittedda Fried Vegetables
This is a vegetable dish I enjoy eating for the delicate and delightful fragrance. Zia Francesca specialized in the preparation of this simple and typical Palermitano dish. When I cooked the Frittedda at Joe’s of Avenue U...
Pasta with Potatoes
Pasta with potatoes is part of the traditional southern Italian cooking. In Sicily, this dish is often prepared because of the fragrant and good taste and because of its nutritious value.This uncomplicated and healthy pasta is simple to prepare...
Pasta with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes
This is an appetizing dish, often prepared in the summer when local cherry tomatoes are ripe and abundant. Cherry tomatoes are ideal for this preparation, however, if not available ripe quartered tomatoes can be substituted.
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