Macaroni-bows: recipes

What is a bow pasta? How to cook? These and other issues we will consider in the article. These pastas are also called "Farfalle" and are made from solid varieties of wheat in the form of butterflies. For the original form farfalle especially like babies. These macaroni were invented in Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy in the north of Italy in the 16th century. In form they refer to the curly paste.

Farfalle

Have you ever seen pasta-bows? They are produced in the form of squares of dough, pitted in the middle. They have gained popularity among other pasta due to the different thickness of the dough - thin at the edges and thicker in the middle. Due to the smooth texture, the farfalle is perfectly combined with light sauces based on vegetables.

They are used in preparation of different salads and pasta, and also perfectly combined with non-standard sauces, and with traditional (cheese, tomato, cream). Farfalle are combined with all provisions: fish, meat, cheese, vegetables and so on. They are often sold in a mixture of colors of the Italian flag.

Actually farfalle are made in the form of butterflies, and our population names them simply - "bows".

Known recipe: ingredients

How to cook pasta-bows with tomatoes, parsley and pine nuts? It should be noted that this recipe is known to many. Instead of parsley, you can buy dill. You can replace cherry tomatoes with large tomatoes, removing the core from them. In pasta, you can also add a bit of grated cheese.

So, for cooking two servings of dish you need to have:

• Pasta-bows - 150 g;
• 2 tbsp. L. Olive oil;
• Olives - one handful;
• Cedar nuts - 1 handful;
• One large bunch of parsley;
• A small bunch of basil;
• Two cloves of garlic;
• Small bundle of chives;
• 12 pieces of cherry tomatoes;
• 50 ml of white wine;
• Black freshly ground pepper - ¼ tsp;
• Sea salt.

By the way, pine nuts are regarded as a delicacy and used in cooking for making sauces, fish, meat and vegetable dishes, seasonings.

How to cook?

So how to cook tasty pasta-bows? Finely chop and cut with scissors chives. Rub it in a mortar with a pinch of pepper and salt. Combine the resulting mixture with olives and leave for a while. Boil the salted water in pasta, then drain and save it. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half.

Peel the garlic and crush the flat side of the knife. Finely chop the parsley. Warm the olive oil in a frying pan and lightly brown the garlic. Put the tomatoes, pine nuts and olives together with the dressing and fry for a couple of minutes in a frying pan.

Then remove the frying pan from the fire, add parsley to the products, mix. Pour in the white wine, pepper and salt. Put the farfalle in the pan, stir. If necessary, pour in a little water, in which the pasta was brewed. Sprinkle with basil, crushed hands, and serve immediately.

Delicious dish

So, you already know how to cook up pasta-bows. Recipes with these amazing products like everyone. A little is known for the recipe for Farfalle with chicken and champignons. This is a delightful pleasure! Now we will tell you how to prepare this delicious dish (3-4 servings). You need to have at your fingertips:

• Farfalle - 350 g;
• Champignons - 350 g;
• 300 g of chicken fillet;
• 400 g of broccoli cabbage;
• 200 g of cheese hard;
• 200 ml of cream.

So, pre-cook the pasta until ready in salted boiling water. Pieces of chicken fillet fry in vegetable oil. Chopped mushrooms add to the chicken, pepper and salt to taste. In parallel, boil the broccoli in boiling water.

Add the cream to the chicken and cook for five minutes. Drain the cabbage water. In the frying pan to the meat and mushrooms add the broccoli and mix. Then add pasta cooked (water pour), and sprinkle this delicious dish with grated cheese.