The secret to this dish is quality ingredients in the pasta and the ricotta. Pay that little bit more or even better make your own of both.
Super quick, easy and frugal for a Friday.
Ricotta Pasta
cook up some great pasta
stir through some excellent ricotta
in a pot add some
local garlic and olive oil
quickly stir through some
frozen peas or if you are lucky, fresh ones
pop that on top of your pasta
and roughly rip some garden mint on top
and eat with gusto.
cityhippyfarmgirl 
Very nice my friend. This works damn well with a bit of lemon zest in there too!
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Looks delicious, I love simple dishes like this made with really good ingredients. Have been experimenting with making ricotta – this would be a great supper to use it in.
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One of my favourite pastas! I love strozzapreti, as much for their name and history (“priest chokers”) as their shape! 🙂
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That’s a very yummy looking dinner. I did try to buy fresh peas yesterday but they were so ridiculously expensive I had to go for the frozen variety xx
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Yum! What a pefect family dish. I use to buy ricotta from the Italian deli in Stanmore, it was the best tasting in my life and so cheap (too cheap for what is was) but then we moved to the Snowy Mountains and I had to buy from the supermarket counter and it tasted like water. I almost cried.
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Zena I know that sad face. It’s ricotta sad face. I can still taste the fresh ricotta from Italy 14 years later, it’s very hard to compare to…although I may have to stake out a few places in Stanmore, that could be a taste that’s close!
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Italian deli at Petersham (apologies) where I use to work at Marrickville Council, Stanmore is where I use to live:) Next time I have bad ricotta I’ll remember ‘ricotta sad face’ and it will make me laugh. Thanks!
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Mmm,,- your Frugal Friday looks delicious. Today was left over Thursday- and it was good. But everyone just had a small portion of everything. I wish I had some fresh mint. 😦
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Heidi I wish I could give you some mint. It’s one of the few things that are happily growing at the moment and I actually have surplus! You’ll have to imagine the big bouquet of mint I would give you if you were just a smidge closer.
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This is so random, but I was literally eating pasta with Ricotta when I opened up the post, and it is indeed simple & yummy!
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Yum, so simple and delicious. Have a lovely weekend Brydie x
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This looks absolutely delicious Brydie. Love the simple, clean and complimentary flavours. I often put ricotta, mint and peas together in a salad but I never thought to add pasta. I know what I’ll be making this weekend! xx
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What a beautiful, frugal dish – I like it!
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I’m liking your idea for a Frugal Friday post. We are trying to only visit the grocery store once a week on Saturdays, so come Friday, I am being creative on the dinner front. Frugal around here it is! Last night I made up an easy soup with three main ingredients – carrots, one sweet potato, and a can of coconut milk.
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Beautiful and simple Brydie! I really like the sound of this pasta and I usually have the ingredients in the fridge and pantry for it too 🙂
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Now that is an easy dish – l bet the fresh peas make that. I’ve never thought of just mixing ricotta through pasta. Thanks for the idea!
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Gusto can make his own…this is ALL mine! 😉
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