Easy and delicious homemade Italian Sauces and Pestos
Tossing pasta with a rich sauce or a fresh pesto is one of the fastest meals you can make. Throw in some meat or seafood and you have a complete meal in minutes.
Sauces can be made in advance and most freeze quite well - with or without meat.
Pesto needs to be made with fresh herbs as dried herbs will not provide the same texture or flavor. Eat them fresh or keep frozen. Pestos are traditionally used as sauces for pasta or added to a bowl of soup for extra flavor, however, they can make a great spread for sandwiches or rubbing them on meat before cooking adds tremendous flavor.
Tip: To use pesto on leftover pasta, the trick is not to cook the pesto - especially in the microwave because it will zap out all of the flavor.
Try these Sauce and Pesto Recipes:
Slow-cook Sauces:
My Family's Spaghetti Sauce
Bolognese Sauce
Basic Marinara Sauce
Roasted Tomato Sauce
Besciamella Sauce
Quick Sauces:
Fresh Tomato Sauce
No Cook Tomato Sauce
Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Quick Creamy Gorgonzola Sauce
Alfredo Sauce
Fast Marinara Sauce
Puttanesca Sauce
Spaghetti alla Carbonara
Creamy Pumpkin Pasta Sauce
Mascarpone Cheese Sauce
Pestos:
Basic Basil Pesto
Mint Pesto
Want more sauce recipes?
Here is a great ebook filled with sauce recipes as well as easy to follow instructions. It's an inexpensive ebook filled with restaurant quality sauces.
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