Top Tips from our Head Grill MasterGrilling Inspiration: Ultimate Grilled Pasta

Who doesn’t love a nice big bowl of pasta?  Pasta is a great comfort food, especially now. It’s a relatively inexpensive dish and there are some fun ways to incorporate great flavors and create 3-4 meals for the week by adding a variety of veggies and proteins. 

• Substitute any ingredient (in or out) of your favorite pasta dish based on what you have on hand.
• Bring more flavor and fun to any staple pasta by adding in your favorite veggies such as zucchini, peppers, onions, eggplant, tomato, or spinach and proteins such as chicken, steak, fish, or shrimp.
• Use your side burner, keep the mess outside!
• Add hot julienned veggies to hot pasta.
• Make a cold pasta salad using grilled veggies the same size as the pasta you are using.  My favorite pastas for pasta salad are are spaghetti noodles broken in half before cooking or elbow/macaroni or bowtie pasta. Drizzle with olive oil or avocado oil. Any veggies would work well in a pasta salad.
• Grill a meatball for your pasta.  Check out our grill master recipe here. 
  

Alfredo sauce: Add grilled broccoli and peas (grill in a preheated grill pan for 8-10 depending on size of pieces, during the last 2-3 min add peas) and grilled chicken or shrimp. 

Marinara sauce: Add grilled peppers and onions, add a grilled meatball or grilled sausage 

Olive Oil: Any veggies or lighter flavors work really well with olive oil.

Make it an extra interesting with our Grill Master Olive Oil Sauce:

3/4  cup extra-virgin olive oil
                           
2-3 tbsp chopped garlic (2-3 garlic cloves)

1 tablespoon red pepper flakes
1 tablespoon back pepper
1 ½ tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 tsp salt

Vodka sauce: Use a larger portion of veggies and then add a smaller serving of protein like sausage, chicken or steak to the dish or serve it on the side.

Make it an extra interesting with our Grill Master Vodka Sauce:

4 tbsp minced garlic (3-4 cloves)
1 large onion chopped fine
4.6 concentrate tomato paste or 6 oz tomato paste
4 oz.  container grated parmesan cheese
3 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
1 tbsp. crushed red pepper flakes
2 oz. vodka
¾ cup heavy cream
1 tbsp. black pepper
½ tbsp. kosher salt

So there you have it, whatever you have on hand can be used to grill up the ultimate pasta dinner. If you want to follow a recipe, then check out the 3 below. Have fun with it and share! We'd love to see what you grill! #StayInGrillOut