Spicy Crab Marinara Pasta
Spicy Crab Marinara Pasta is a must for Christmas Eve’s Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner and a family favorite to be enjoyed any time of the year. Just enough spicy heat and sweet crab meat, Spicy Crab Marinara Pasta is nonetheless easy to prepare and never fails to impress from its presentation to its rich and zesty taste. Choose a fun, fancifully-shaped pasta for this dish; we chose creste di gallo (cocks combs) but radiatore (radiators) or lumachine (small snails) would also work well to hold the zesty sauce and bits of crab meat. For a special dinner, start with Family-style Rustic Escarole Salad and move on to Spicy Crab Marinara Pasta, pairing both courses with a dry white wine or prosecco.
Prep Time: 10 minutes, Cooking Time: 30 minutes, Total Time: 40 minutes. Serves 4 to 6 persons.
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Castelvetrano Olives Marinara Sauce
Bright, colorful Castelvetrano Olives Marinara Sauce brings together a few ingredients for a super flavorful, eye-catching pasta sauce. A ubiquitous snack in Italy, sweet Castelvetrano olives, with their bright green, some say Kermit green, color, come from Castelvetrano, Sicily, and are made from the nocerella del belice olive variety. Their meaty yet buttery flesh and mild, nut-like flavor make these olives the star in our Castelvetrano Olives Marinara Sauce. With just six ingredients, Castelvetrano Olives Marinara Sauce is easy and quick to prepare and serve over a long, strand-type pasta, like fettuccine, linguine, spaghetti or bucatini; perfect for a weeknight dinner with our Wilted Arugula Salad for a starter and accompanied by a medium-bodied, dry red wine.
Prep Time: 15 minutes, Total Time: 35 minutes. Serves: 2
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Rosemary Marinara Sauce
Rosemary Marinara is the perfect sauce for Chicken or Pork Parmigiana, adding to the overall richness of those dishes without masking or overwhelming the chicken or pork. Rosemary Marinara also great as the sauce for spaghetti or angel hair pasta for an easy dinner. The rosemary adds a deep, herbal element to an otherwise simple marinara sauce which has been enriched with dry red wine.
Prep Time: 10 minutes, Total Time: 50 minutes Provides sufficient sauce for 4 chicken or pork parmigiana cutlets. Serves 4 as a pasta sauce.
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Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce
Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce beautifully showcases the subtle flavor of Marjoram, called the “Queen of Herbs”. Related to oregano, marjoram is the “sweet sister” to oregano’s “bold brother”. Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce is very easy to make but does require fresh marjoram; fortunately, marjoram is an easy herb to grow.
Unlike a lot of pasta sauces, Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce does not need to be made in a large quantity nor does it require a large time commitment to prepare. This sauce is best served fresh but you can freeze unused sauce in an airtight container; if used within a week, it will not diminish greatly in flavor. Particularly suited to filled pastas, like ravioli, tortellini and agnolotti, Marjoram Marinara Pasta Sauce is also delicious with the addition of fried Homemade Italian Meatballs for a real treat over dried cut pasta for dinner.
Prep Time: 15 minutes, Total Time: 40 minutes. Serves: 4
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Green Beans Marinara
Green Beans Marinara is a typical Italian contorno or side dish. Oddly enough, while popular in Italian and Italian-American homes, it’s not often seen on restaurant menus in the United States. Contrary to its name, Green Beans Marinara is not just green beans thrown into a large pot of marinara sauce. The marinara sauce is minimal in volume as compared to the green beans; the sauce’s flavor permeates but must not overwhelm the wonderful juiciness of fresh green beans.
Easy to prepare and really delicious, Green Beans Marinara’s flavors are best when prepared with freshly picked green beans and tomatoes, as Vito’s grandmother would do with produce from her own garden. That said, using fresh green beans and ripe tomatoes from the farmers’ market or supermarket will also yield very good results provided you select the very freshest produce possible and prepare the recipe within a day or so of making your purchase.
Green Beans Marinara is a colorful side dish for steaks, chops and chicken, try some with London broil made with Dad’s Special Marinade for Beef; it is also quite good on its own accompanied by some fresh bread to soak up the sauce. Any leftover Green Beans Marinara can be refrigerated for future use within two days.
Prep Time: 30 minutes, Total Time: 1 hour Serves: 2
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