Dinner for two or weeknight supper, seafood pasta is always a welcome choice. From cold seafood pasta salad to hot dishes with cream sauces and wine, these easy recipes for seafood pasta take you out of the dinner doldrums.
Pad Thai is Thailand's most well known noodle dish, which you'll find on almost all Thai restaurant menus in America. A trip down the Asian-foods aisle in the supermarket should lead you to its traditional ingredients, such as rice noodles and fish sauce.
Dry sherry flavors the broth, and the crushed red pepper adds a tiny bite to this pasta dish. Added mushrooms and spinach makes this an amazing meal in one.
Shellfish is always a popular combination in a pasta recipe which includes sun-dried tomatoes, olive oil, and garlic. Add broccoli florets to round out this quick-and-easy meal.
Roasting garlic, as for this shrimp dish, results in a mellow, buttery paste. Also use roasted garlic to spread on Italian bread or stir into mashed potatoes.
This company dinner can be ready in 20 minutes. Sea scallops are sauteed in butter and finished with a splash of white wine before being tossed with the pasta and walnut and Parmesan pesto.
Pinot Blanc, a.k.a. the poor man's Chardonnay, has a bright acidity that's terrific with dishes like this lush pasta from F&W's Marcia Kiesel. Fabulous U.S. bottlings, like the 2007 Robert Foley Vineyards from Napa and the 2006 Erath from Oregon, cost less than $25 a bottle.
Use any long, flat pasta, such as fettuccine or tagliatelle, for this recipe. A flavored pasta, such as saffron or cayenne, will complement the shrimp. If using plain pasta, add a pinch of saffron or ground red pepper to the boiling water.
The tomato sauce here--with big pieces of flaked swordfish and slivers of jalapeno--gets nicely absorbed by the penne. And, judge Michael Schlow adds, "There's a good proportion of tomatoes and fish to pasta, and it all comes together so well."