Can anyone recommend a good pasta sauce that isn't made with beef or pork?!
Answers: can i use ground chicken to make pasta sauce? or will that taste gross?
I grew up on hamburger, but lately I have been using ground turkey for almost all my recipes that call for it. I love it because it is super healthy, extremely cheap, easy to prepare, and a direct substitution in my recipes, that is I can swap it out pound for pound.
It's to the point now where hamburger almost tastes weird.
Anyway. In spaghetti sauce, it is PERFECT.
You can buy it in tubes of one pound each. Thaw and brown it like hamburger, and drain it.
Then you can either add a jar of pasta sauce (1 lb turkey plus 1 quart jar of sauce serves about 4) or you can make your own out of fresh or canned tomatos, broth, and seasonings.
I make it from scratch using crushed tomatos, a little bit of paste, beef broth, bay leaves, italian seasoning. I make it in mega batches then pour into ziplock bags in meal size portions, squeeze the air out and lay them flat, freeze, and file them away upright in my freezer. This way they thaw easily, almost with running hot water, and they are on deck for a quick and easy dinner. It's good for any pasta, lasagna, pizza, even soup base.
You can put whatever you like in pasta sauce...if you like ground chicken then use it. You can also have Marinara which has no meat.
Recipes are not cast in stone!!! I don't know of a single soul who uses any recipe as written. Even my daughter in law is learning this. You can do anything you want with any recipe.
You can change the meats in it, even use fishies if you want or don't use any meat or birdie or fishie at all.
Alfredo sauce is excellent on pasta and it isn't even RED!!!
Even my husband can screw up a recipe and make it taste good.
Ground chicken is great! Here is a great alfredo recipe that never fails. Hope you like it!
Creamy Alfredo Sauce
8 ounces dry fettuccine pasta
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon dried basil
1 pinch ground nutmeg
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
In a medium saucepan, combine cream cheese, Parmesan, margarine, milk, garlic powder and basil and stir over low heat until smooth and creamy, 10 to 15 minutes. Toss sauce with pasta and sprinkle with nutmeg. Serve.
Hope you love this sauce as much as we do!
Chris
I think a good sauce is prego .It has no meat whatsoever and you don't even need to season it, it actually tastes pretty good
You can make up a white garlic sauce and pour it onto the ground chicken (made into burgers) and a bit of Angel Hair Pasta.
how about this....
cook your ground chicken
add to it
1 can mushroom soup
1/2 soup can water
small block of velveeta cheese
1 can rotel tomatoes
seasonings you like
make sure all is melted and heated through
pour over noodles
Alfredo, Marinara, Olive oil with herbs, butter with herbs. Any sauce made with beef or pork can be made with chicken, lamb, or shellfish.
I like the Pasta-Roni Olive Oil and Garlic. I usually put a little more garlic powder (not garlic salt) in mine. This comes in a box.
Next time you are in your grocery store look at all the pasta sauces in jars. Sometimes you can find the clam sauce that is so delicious.
Ground turkey is good or you can go a seafood route and use a clam sauce thats very yummy
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley
1 large clove garlic, minced
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 teaspoon salt
dash pepper
1 can (about 10 ounces) minced clams, undrained
8 ounces spaghetti, cooked and drained
Heat oil in a heavy skillet; add parsley, garlic and onion. Sauté for 4 to 5 minutes. Add salt, pepper, and minced clams with liquid. Simmer for 5 minutes. Serve on hot cooked spaghetti.
serves 4