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FAQ
If you're after a rich and indulgent pasta sauce, go for double cream. Its high fat content adds a luxurious creaminess to the sauce, giving you a velvety sauce that coats the pasta beautifully. It's perfect for classic creamy pasta sauces like Alfredo or carbonara.
As a general rule, pair the heartier sauces with the wider noodles: Wide ribbons like pappardelle pair well with rich, meaty sauces while the thinner flat noodles, like fettuccine or linguine, are best paired with simple cream sauces like Alfredo or delicate proteins like seafood.
In his cookbook, Ramsay in 10, which came out in October 2021, Ramsay features a turkey and leek pasta with crispy sage breadcrumbs. For a change, skip the bolognese and make this creamy turkey and leek sauce in a fraction of the time instead, he wrote.
You can easily make a sauce for pasta with heavy cream or whipping cream. Heavy cream will give you better results because it has a higher fat content, but whipping cream will be fine.
For four servings, you'll need:
- 12 ounces dried paccheri or fusilli.
- 1 tablespoon olive oil.
- 2 cloves garlic, minced.
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes.
- 4 anchovy fillets.
- One (15-ounce) can diced tomatoes.
- Finely chopped fresh parsley.
- 1/3 cup pitted black olives (such as Kalamata)