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Home » Lifestyle Parenting » Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid’s will love

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid’s will love

December 23, 2016 | Leave a Comment

Pasta is a very popular dish in our house. Not only is it tasty, It can be so simple and quick to make and after a busy day at work or at home with the kids, a quick dish that’s tasty and healthy is all you want!

I was challenged by Barilla, Italy’s biggest pasta brand to come up with my favourite after School Pasta dishes to share with my lovely readers.

Homemade Meatballs with Spaghetti

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid's will love - End Result Barilla

I got the kids in the kitchen to help make homemade meatballs using lean minced beef and marinating with garlic, salt & Pepper and herbs. We left these overnight in the fridge to make sure they were rich in flavour.

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid's will love - Meatballs marinating barilla

  • The next day we browned the meatballs in a frying pan in a little olive oil

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid's will love - Meatballs marinating barillameatballs cooking 2 Barilla

  • Next, we added a Barilla tomato & Basil sauce to the meatballs and left to simmer in the sauce for just over 10 minutes.

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid's will love - meatballs with sauce Barilla

  • Whilst these were cooking we added our spaghetti to a boiling pan of water and left to cook.

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid's will love - spagetti cooking Barilla

  • Once the spaghetti was cooked, we added our meatballs and sauce.

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid's will love - End Result 2

 

Easy Mediterranean Vegetables Pasta Dish

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid's will love -Pasta dish end result

For this amazingly simple pasta dish, we used Barilla Tortiglioni, one of the most famous pasta shapes from Naples.

  • We cooked the Tortiglioni in boiling water for 12 minutes
  • After draining the pasta, we stirred in a full jar of Barilla Mediterranean Vegetable pasta sauce. A combination of 100% Italian tomatoes, ripe courgettes, plump aubergines and sweet peppers

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid's will love -Pasta Dish cooking

  • As simple as that, we added a little cheese and served with garlic bread

Quick & Tasty Pasta dishes that your kid's will love -Pasta dish end result

What are your favourite Pasta dishes? Do you have any quick dishes for busy parents for midweek tea meals?

*In collaboration with Barilla*

 

 

 

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A parent to 3 children ranging from 6 to 27! I love to write about parenting topics, Interior design, beauty and Money Saving Tips.

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