Good ingredients to pair with pasta
Tomato, cream, cheese, olive oil and cooking water are useful bridges between pasta and the ingredients around it. Chicken, tuna, spinach and mushrooms can each become the focus without needing a completely different method.
Easy pasta meal ideas
- tomato garlic pasta — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- creamy chicken pasta — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- tuna pasta — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
- spinach cheese pasta — use it as a starting format and adapt the vegetables, seasonings and portions to what you have.
How to get the best from pasta
Reserve a little of the pasta cooking water before draining. Adding it gradually helps a sauce cling to the pasta and can bring together ingredients that otherwise feel dry or separate.
Turn a few ingredients into a coherent dinner
Choose a base, a flavour direction and one or two supporting ingredients. For example, rice or potatoes can make the meal filling, while lemon and garlic, tomato and herbs, soy and chilli, or curry spices can give the ingredients a clear direction.
Make the idea fit your evening
The same ingredient can produce a very different answer depending on whether you need dinner in 20 minutes, want one pan, are feeding four people or need to use another ingredient before it goes to waste. Add those constraints before choosing the final recipe.
Use SIZZIO to make it specific
Tell SIZZIO what you have, how many people you are feeding and what kind of meal you want. You can then save the recipe and move into the cooking flow instead of starting another search when it is time to cook.