The beautiful word that came to us from Italy literally means "butterfly". Say a couple of times "farfalle", you hear, because it really looks like wings flapping. This is how the Italians called one of the kinds of pasta, which their cuisine is famous for. A merry form of pasta, reminiscent of small wings or bows, is very popular with adults and, especially, children. Often, natural dyes are added to the dough, and the pasta is bright, colorful and amusing.
The Farfalle recipe does not require adhering to a particular technology. Cooked pasta, like any pasta, in salted boiling water. Then the pasta is mixed with various additives and sauces - creamy, soy, tomato.
Farfalle with shrimps
Pasta or pasta, as it used to be, the Italians have a national dish that is eaten every day, on holidays, prepared for lunch and dinner. Depending on the additional ingredients, you can make the dish more nutritious or vice versa, dietary and easy. We propose to try the Farfalle with shrimps, the delicate taste of which is compulsory for gourmets and lovers of Italian cuisine.
Ingredients:
- farfalle - 400 g;
- cherry tomatoes - 150 g;
- shrimps peeled - 200 g;
- olive oil - 120 g;
- zucchini - 300 g;
- wine white dry - 300 g;
- spices - to taste;
- Basil - to taste - 2 pcs .;
- cheese - 80 g;
- cream - 450 g.
Preparation
Vegetables properly washing and drying. Cut tomatoes into halves, chop the onions into small cubes, and grate the zucchini. In a well-heated frying pan, fry the prawns, zucchini, onions and tomatoes in olive oil, then add wine, pepper and cook until the liquid evaporates completely. Pour in the cream and bring the shrimps with vegetables to the state of the sauce. Farfalle boil in salted water, combine with cooked sauce, a couple of minutes warm up in a pan and lay out on plates. Top with sprinkled with grated cheese - Parmesan or any other that is available. You can lay the farfalle paste on a dish and decorate it with basil.
In the same way, you can make farfalle with salmon. Fish fillet cut into small pieces and cook with vegetables in accordance with the above recipe. The combination of salmon, cream and wine will give the pasta a wonderful delicate taste.
Farfalle with chicken
Chicken meat is perfectly combined with sweet sauces. So let's try to cook our butterflies with chicken and honey.
Ingredients:
- farfalle - 500 g;
- chicken meat - 700 g;
- soy sauce - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- honey - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- olive oil - to taste;
- salt - to taste;
- butter - to taste.
Preparation
Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and add a slice of cream to it, melt it and chicken the chicken, cut into small pieces. Fry about five minutes, add soy sauce, honey and continue, stirring constantly, fry until done. In salted water, we cook the macaroni farfalle to the state of "al dente", put them on a frying pan to the chicken, add 50 grams of water, in which we cook the paste and stew for three minutes. That's all! Farfalle with chicken is ready, you can lay out the dish on plates.
As you can see, for the recipe of Farfalle you can take any ingredients - the pasta is perfectly combined with meat, and with vegetables, and with fish. You can even make porcelain with mushrooms - lightly fry the mushrooms, for example, in olive oil, add onion, a little white wine and sprinkle the pasta with grated cheese.