| More pasta or more sauce? That is the | | | | pork cooked with some kind of tomato |
| question. While renowned Italian chef Mario | | | | counterpart. Some mix ground meat with an |
| Batali announces pasta is king in his Serious | | | | already made tomato pasta sauce to add |
| Eats' segment Mario Unclogged: How to Sauce | | | | texture and extra protein to their pasta |
| Pasta, New York Times food writer Mark | | | | dishes. Adding meat, however, can also add a |
| Bittman decides piling on the sauce is now | | | | pile of grease to your sauce, which means |
| the way to go. Batali claims that the sauce | | | | Bittman stays away from such meat sauces when |
| should be treated as a condiment to pasta, | | | | piling it on. Spaghetti in Meat Sauce Tomato |
| and should not interfere with the pasta | | | | Meat Sauce Meaty Pasta Dinner Pesto Having |
| itself. "What you want to eat when you eat a | | | | originated in Genoa, Italy, this sauce is |
| bowl of pasta is pasta," he says defending | | | | made from a combination of basil, salt pine |
| Italy's way of serving pasta and criticizing | | | | nuts and garlic. There are many variations, |
| the American way as "overdressed." On the | | | | some including the use of a tomato, but the |
| contrary, Bittman's recent health finds have | | | | main ingredient is always basil. While there |
| spurred him to treat the sauce as the main | | | | are no heavy creams in this sauce to send the |
| event and the pasta as, well, an | | | | Bittman scale rising, it would be quite hard |
| afterthought. He claims that the dangers of | | | | to manage a high sauce-to-pasta ratio with |
| eating pasta are just as bad as eating a | | | | pesto. It's generally not very liquidy or |
| piece of white bread, or biscotti. But, while | | | | full of chunky vegetables, but rather it |
| many people stand on both sides of this | | | | provides a layor of flavor that clings to the |
| issue, the debate can really go nowhere if | | | | pasta. Pesto The Basic Pesto Recipe Pasta |
| you don't consider what type of pasta sauce | | | | with Pesto Sauce Marinara A simple tomato |
| you're using. There are countless varieties | | | | sauce, often infused with herbs such as |
| of homemade as well as purchasable sauces out | | | | parsley or basil, this sauce is very common |
| there, ranging quite widely in nutritional | | | | in many pasta dishes served in America. In |
| value. The following is a basic guide to the | | | | other countries however, marinara sauce |
| types of sauces people use on their pasta, | | | | refers to a tomato-based sauce with seafood |
| and which you should pile on (if you so | | | | in it, as the word in Italian means coastal, |
| desire), according to the Bittman point of | | | | or seafaring. Since there are so many |
| view. Alfredo Made from parmesan cheese, | | | | different ways to make the marinara sauce, |
| butter, and heavy cream, this sauce is most | | | | it's hard to judge how healthy it is on the |
| traditionally served with fettucine. This | | | | Bittman scale. But, in his own demonstration, |
| sauce originated in Rome, where American | | | | he used a tomato-based sauce with a variety |
| tourists would enjoy restauranteur Alfredo di | | | | of vegetables. Marinara Sauce Shrimp Marinara |
| Lelio's creation. A heavy and very fatty | | | | Pasta with Marinara Sauce and Grilled |
| sauce, this would not be a choice Mark | | | | Vegetables The sky is the limit for the kinds |
| Bittman would back when encouraging the more | | | | of sauces out there, from blue cheese to fish |
| sauce-to-pasta ratio. Light Alfredo | | | | sauces; new sauces are being invented every |
| Fettuccine Alfredo Roasted Garlic Alfredo | | | | day. So go out there and create a new sauce |
| Vodka Traditionally, vodka sauce is made from | | | | today, or be inspired by these additional |
| heavy cream, crushed tomatoes, and garlic | | | | recipes that didn't fall into their own |
| powder. Some add sausage to the mixture, but | | | | categories. Eggplant Spaghetti Sauce Pasta |
| overall this is also seen as a heavy sauce. | | | | with Blue Cheese Sauce Gourmet Bowtie Pasta |
| The most common pasta dish to use this sauce | | | | with Goat Cheese Sauce Shrimp in Champagne |
| is penne a la vodka. Origins of the dish have | | | | Sauce with Pasta Pasta with Butter-Wine Sauce |
| been disputed with some claiming it was | | | | Shrimp Angel Hair with Lemon Caper Cream |
| invented in Bologna, Italy, and others | | | | Sauce Angel Hair Pasta with Creamy Mushroom |
| retorting Naples was its original home. | | | | Sauce Spaghetti with Clam Sauce Ricotta and |
| Bittman scale says: not the sauce I'm talking | | | | Fresh Herb Sauce Pasta with Leek, Pepper, and |
| about! Pasta with Lemon Vodka Sauce Penne | | | | Chive Sauce |
| Pasta with Tomato Vodka Sauce Shrimp Penne a | | | | |
| la Vodka Meat Sauce Self-explanatory, meat | | | | Hillary Marshak is a writer and editor for |
| sauce is generally a ground beef, turkey or | | | | an up and coming recipe sharing Website. |