healthy pasta recipes

Healthy pasta recipes from an Italian kitchen.

Healthy pasta recipes are a lot here in Italy, because Italians very often season pasta with vegetables and always with fresh ingredients, spices and herbs.

For example:

• Orecchiette with broccoli rabe;
• Pasta with cauliflower from Sicily;
• Kale and almond pesto.

All these recipes have in common the use of good quality extra-virgin olive oil, vegetables in season, nuts and fast cooking times, this to avoid loosing precious nutrients.

Be sure you use a good pasta brand as well, made in Italy and from durum wheat or semolina wheat. And be sure you are cooking it the appropriate way.

Here’s a post on how to cook pasta: you’ll find precious indications on pasta types and shapes, salt to use and cooking times.