I am always on the hunt for something new to field my children. There are caveats to my hunt, mainly, it has to be easy. My family is a busy family. Anyone who has followed my blog or social media sites for the past 15 years will know that. Our busy schedule means I need to prepare, cook, and place a meal on the table either before soccer practice or late at night after practice.
Being a soccer dad isn’t for the faint of heart. It means rushing constantly. My 11-year-old son plays on two soccer teams and has practice or a game 6 days a week. My 8-year-old daughter also plays soccer. My 17-year-old daughter doesn’t play soccer, but I need to prepare something she’ll enjoy or she might grab some fast food sometime later in the evening. A couple of years ago, when my oldest son was home before joining the Army, he had a crazy soccer schedule as well. Soccer has always dominated our lives.
Partnering with Sfoglini Pasta (pronounced Sfo-lee-ne) is a no-brainer for my family. And like my family, Sfoglini is made in New York. Unlike my family, the pasta is slow dried and uses traditional bronze dies. Nobody has ever accused my kids and me of being bronze. Sfoglini is made with organic whole grain, rye, emmer, einkorn, and spelt flours.
Usually when I post recipes, I complain the ingredients should be at the top because nobody cares about the story. So forgive me for being a hypocrite. Since I’ve added that disclaimer, let’s finally jump into what I made
I received a “pasta sampler” for this story.
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I tried several Sfoglini products over a month and my favorite is the Saffron Malloreddus. This pasta is made with organic durum semolina and has a nice consistency. The reason my family and I love this one the most is that it’s not on our usual list of pastas. We eat a lot of pasta in my house, but I’ve never made anything resembling the Saffron Malloreddus. It will be a go-to meal in the future.
The time from stovetop to table was under 35 minutes, making this meal perfect for my busy lifestyle.
Here we go:
Ingredients:
1 box (16 ounces) of Sfoglini Saffron Malloreddus
Salt
Sauce:
3 strips of thick bacon, cut into pieces
½ cup of butter
3 tablespoons of minced garlic
¼ cup of fresh parmesan cheese
Ground pepper
Oregeno
Onion Powder
Basil
2 handfuls of baby spinach
Directions:
- Prepare the ingredients. Cut bacon into pieces. Set out all ingredients at the ready to be used.
- Add 4 quarts of water into a pot and turn burner to high. Add salt.
- Add bacon to a frying pan, stirring occasionally.
- Add butter to pan and let melt.
- Once the butter is melted, add the minced garlic. Once it sizzles, lower the heat.
- Once water is boiling, add pasta.
- Remove bacon from pan and drain the grease.
- Add oregano, ground pepper, basil, and onion powder to sauce. Stir.
- Add bacon and stir
- After 10 to 13 minutes of cooking pasta, take out a ¼ cup of the water and drain pasta.
- Add the water to the sauce and stir.
- Combine pasta and sauce together in the pan and stir.
- Add parmesan cheese to the pan and stir.
- Serve and enjoy.
(I usually eyeball ingredients. For the oregano, onion powder, and pepper, use your own judgement.)
Other Options:
- I rarely add much salt to a dish because I’m trying to cut back on the amount of salt. Therefore, my palate doesn’t enjoy a salty taste. For my liking, the bacon has enough salt in this meal. If you like to add salt, by all means shake away.
- I thought I had an onion prior to cooking, but I was out. This dish is great to chop up an onion and cook with the bacon. If you don’t have an onion or don’t like onions, use onion powder.
- I should have added more water to the pot to boil. The pasta still turned out great, but next time I’m adding a bit more water.
- I used a lot of butter for this dish. For future meals, I’ll use a 1/3 cup of butter. If you love butter, then go ahead with what was originally in this dish.
- Peas are also great with this dish if you want something else instead of spinach.
I hope you try and enjoy. If you do, please come back and share how you used Sfoglini Pasta.
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I made this! We got the Sfoglini Pasta Club subscription and I had a bunch of Saffron Malloreddus that I didn’t know what to do with. The recipes from Sfoglini for their pastas have been a bit hit or miss for our family. This one sounded a lot more family-friendly, and turned out to be one of those dishes that you could just keep on eating and eating! The recipe instructions were a bit confusing, but watching the TikTok video helped. At first I thought I was supposed to add the butter to the bacon pan, and then pour it all out! That wouldn’t have been good! I used a full small clamshell of fresh basil, 1 teaspoon of dried oregano, and 1/4 teaspoon of ground black pepper. I omitted the onion powder because I took the suggestion to add 1 chopped up onion at the beginning with the butter. I increased the pasta water to 1/2 C, and the cheese to 1/2 cup. At the end I felt like it could use more of a kick, so I added 1/4 teaspoon of red pepper flake as well. Delizioso!
That sounds delicious. Thank you for sharing. Sfoglini has been my go to pasta the past couple of years.