This Pasta and Potatoes recipe, Pasta and Patate, is the Neapolitan way of making a delicious meal using everything you have in your fridge or pantry. Besides pasta, potatoes, and stock, you can add any other vegetable, cheese, or meat you want to use up. It is a healthy, easy, and quick weekday meal you can make when you don't have a plan for dinner. Everything is cooked together in one pot in less than 30 minutes.
Course Pasta
Cuisine Italian
Keyword Pasta and potatoes, pasta e patate, potatoes and pasta
Add diced carrot, celery and onion and stir fry to make a soffritto
2 carrots, 2 stalk of celery, 1 onion
Add the potatoes cut into small chunks
5 medium potatoes
Stir and add some white wine
½ cup white wine
Once the wine has evaporated, add some stock
6 cups homemade stock
The amount of stock you add should cover the base of the pan, not all the ingredients.
Cover and let it simmer for 5 minutes
Add salt
1 teaspoon salt
Adding bacon and spices
Add the bacon
5 oz bacon
and the hot chili peppers, if you like them spicy
2 Hot chili peppers
Stir and add more stock if needed. Simmer for two more minutes
Adding the pasta
Add the pasta
10 oz pasta corta
Add more stock to ALMOST cover the pasta, do not submerge it
6 cups homemade stock
Let it simmer covered for 13 minutes, stirring and adding more stock regularly
Regularly add more stock and stir
6 cups homemade stock
Always simmer covered
Taste the pasta and the potatoes
Adding the cheese
Add the cheese
5 oz scamorza or mozzarella
Stir until the cheese is melted
Serve
Serve it immediately while piping hot with some freshly grated Parmesan
½ cup freshly grated Parmesan
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Notes
The pasta and the potatoes are cooked together in this recipe, a technique similar to risotto called pasta risottata.
Some ingredients are the base for this recipe, while others are optional and replaceable.
You can use up ingredients you have in your fridge and pantry
You can also use mismatched pasta
Check the cooking time required for each pasta as it determines when the pasta will be added to cook together with the potatoes
The potatoes should cook within 20 minutes, while the pasta I am using requires 12 minutes. I, therefore, need to cook the potatoes 8 minutes before I add the pasta, so both pasta and potatoes are perfectly cooked at the same time
It is best to eat this dish on the same day. The next day the pasta will get too soggy as it will absorb all the juices. However, if you cannot finish it and have leftovers, do not throw them away!You can store it in the fridge for up to 3 days in an airtight container; it is still safe to eat.