I’m a big fan of pesto. A simple meal of plain boring dried pasta can be transformed into something magical with the addition of a good quality pesto. It is remarkably versatile – you don’t have to just use it on plain pasta; stir it through gnocchi, in soup, to top lasagne or even as a pizza sauce. Home made is always best in my humble opinion, but failing that Sacla’ comes to the rescue!
Sacla’ recently sent me a sample box including nine different flavours from their pesto and pasta sauce range to review. Yay!
Most people are familiar with the classic basil pesto made with fresh basil leaves, pine nuts and plenty of olive oil, but Sacla’ pesto comes in ten different varieties including a new wild garlic pesto and summer seasonal pesto made with roasted red pepper, mozarella and rocket.
I used half the wild garlic pesto I was sent to sample to top a grilled veggie lasagne and the other half on potato gnocchi. I am in love with this pesto and will be watching out for it in the supermarket!
Get the recipe for this grilled veggie lasagne with wild garlic pesto.
The summer pesto I used as a sauce for a heritage wheat wholegrain pizza with grilled vegetables. It was superb! Despite it being a healthier option pizza, deviating from the normal pepperoni and tomato based sauce and having a reluctant, sceptical family eat it there were no leftovers. I also tried their free-from (wheat, gluten and dairy free) tomato pesto on pasta and the kids asked for second helpings and when it comes to sauces this is a rare occurrence (they prefer their pasta plain).
All of the Sacla’ products are made in Italy from high quality ingredients and all of the products we’ve tried so far were delicious. I like the fact their products are made with no junk – just simple, real ingredients just like you’d make at home.
Get the recipe for this heritage wheat wholegrain pizza with summer pesto and grilled vegetables.
The parcel also included a few of their Al Forno Bake cook-in pasta sauces. All you do is pour the contents of the jar over some dried pasta, add some water and bake in the oven. I confess to being sceptical at first but the proof was in the eating – every one of the sauces we’ve tried so far (a four Italian cheese and black summer truffle sauce and a vine-ripened tomato, creamy mozzarella and basil pesto sauce) were delicious. There were no leftovers and even my picky children cleaned their plates! The sauces can be eaten as-is with plain pasta, but each jar contains two simple delicious recipes to jazz it up a bit, if you fancy.
Look out for their products at your local supermarket. You can find them on Twitter and Facebook too.
Sacla’ would like you to try their pesto range so they are offering two of my readers the chance to win a Sacla’ Pesto Gift Hamper worth £50!
SACLA’ HAMPER CONTENTS RRP £50
1 x Sacla’ Tea towel
1 x ‘Big Book of Pesto’
2 x Squeeze-A-Little sauces
3 x Pronto Stir-in pasta sauces
1 x Whole Cherry Tomato Paste sauce
1 x Antipasto
1 x Risotto sauce
2 x Intenso Stir-in Pasta Sauces
2 x Pesto
1 x Wicker Hamper
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Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary was sent a selection of Sacla’ sauces for review. All opinions expressed are our own. This is not a paid post.
Alisa Moore
Al dente
Joanne Clough
Love fresh pasta but lasagne has to be my favourite
Samantha Rummens
Spaghetti Bolognese
Tina L-D
cooked- with a little sauce or just a bit of butter
Natalie Crossan
with lots of cheese!!
Chris Fletcher
I’m a big fan of a simple spaghetti all vongole!
Debbie Preston
with chicken and mushrooms in a crème fraiche sauce
Alice Megan
I love a nice spicy tomato sauce with my pasta
Laura Vitty
With a tomato and garlic sauce, along with whichever vegetables I have that need using up 🙂
Angela Paull
Spaghetti Bolognese 🙂
Karl Borowy
tasty
Petra Hora
pesto pasta
Sheri Darby
With lots of vegetables and garlic
Toni glenn
With a spicy sauce, melted cheese and a nice garlic tear and share, yum!
gemma nisbet
as long as I have goats cheese on my pasta I am happy
olivia Kirby
with feta and lemon
lisa tebbutt
fresh homemade
Rebecca Powell
I love it with sausages and cheese in a tomato and garlic sauce
claire little
with a sauce 🙂
Katie W
in a carbona sauce, or in a cheese pasta bake
Jeremy Andrews
With Pesto, and olive oil
Amy Beckett
Al dente – Love bolognese
Lydia Graham
Cooked – otherwise it’s a bit hard 🙂
Allan Wilson
With a drizzle of Olive Oil and some black pepper
Hannah Smith
I like my pasta well cooked, really soft so it almost falls apart. With a simple tomato & olive sauce. Some parmesan grated over the top. Bellisimo!
Deb Hambleton
I like it with a tangy tomato sauce and sprinkled with parmesan cheese
Katie Walden Hall
Lots of sauce 🙂
Ian Yates
In a cheese sauce with toasted breadcrumbs atop.
natalie baugh
Cooked haha
no i like it in tomato,cheese and chicken pasta bake
Zoe Bryan
i love my pasta with lots of cheese and bacon 😀
JULIE BANKS
I tend to make my own sauce using home grown cherry tomatoes – this way I get a really full intense flavour.
kristin burdsall
With sun dried tomatoes and lots of cheese
Natalie Henderson
With a beautiful, simple tomato sauce
Steven Montgomery
Whatever i have, it’s always finished off with parmesan 🙂
LEE HARDY
Cooked in tomatoe
Caroline Anne Bellamy
I love pasta most ways – love tomato based sauces and pesto – yum
Reg Vandra
Freshly made lasange
Allan Hill
cooked al dente, drained then tossed back in the pan with a little butter and parsley. yum.
Diana
In lasagne 🙂
joanne liddement
I like a pasta full of vegetables and feta cheese with lots of basil
Gillian Holmes
Pesto peas and a little ham
ESME MCCRUBB
lasagne is my fav pasta
Robby Price
With cheese and ham
Claire Petley
cooked with a chicken stock pot, garlic, bacon chicken and some soft cheese, salt and paper, yummy and if you use low fat cheese and cut any fat of the bacon it’s extreamly healthy too
Patricia Avery
Any creamy sauce suits me 🙂
Becky John
We like pasta with a bacon, cheese & shallot sauce, and loads of garlic bread.
Julie Ward
With tuna and garlic
Mr James Holyland
With tomato and basil please!
Sarah H
Al Dente! Our family favourite is Chicken & Bacon Pesto Pasta 🙂
Michelle Kinsey
My favourite pasta dish is lasagne, with mozzarella and plenty of it! However, recently at a food event, I tried pesto with spaghetti and Parmesan for the first time in my life and O-M-G I am hooked!
Luke Hemingway
Little pesto mixed In with my pasta, some cream, and loads of tasty veg. My fave.
Allan Fullarton
Cheese filled with tomato
Jill Donaldson
I love tagliatelle with a creamy blue cheese and mushroom
Denise S
love pasta in many different ways but favourite is simply with olive oil and Parmesan cheese at lunch alfresco
Pauline Wilson
Lots of ways but my favourite is with a tomato sauce and lots of chunky mushrooms and courgettes topped with cheese
Nicola Giacomelli
I like Pasta alla Norma with Tomatoes and Aubergines. Best when sitting in Sicily by the beach!
Emily Knight
With pesto, of course! We quite often buy fresh filled pasta and just mix in pesto when it’s cooked 🙂
Chloe Elphick
I love my pasta with Bacon and Mushroom in a nice creamy cheese sauce 🙂
Chloe x
Naomi Buchan
As long as it’s al dente and the sauce has plenty of flavour i’m pretty flexible x
Andrea Johnson
With lots of cheese! Macaroni cheese is my favourite, or lasagne
Elizabeth Charlesworth
All sorts of ways. Pasta with pesto, chicken in white sauce and cheese was my go-to recipe as a ravenous student. Carbonara is delicious, as are macaroni cheese, lasagne and spaghetti bolognese. Pasta salad with spinach and pesto is tasty too.
Jane Middleton
I like wholewheat pasta
rebecca whale
With a bolognese sauce
Nicola Holland
With tomato sauce and sun-dried tomatoes 🙂
Charlene Keddy
Fresh, hand-made pasta filled with cheese, wine and ham or beef! xx
Lorraine Foster
Hot, Cheesey and with a creamy sauce.
Antonia Rookley
Fresh tomato, cucumber, pepper, feta and toasted seeds. Some fresh penne tossed in pesto and all mixed in together! Delicious.
Joanna Sawka
I like pesto pasta
Kristy Brown
I love tagliatelle with carbonara
Mary Campbell
In a mix with plenty of sauce 🙂
elisha
Cooked
Ellen Stafford
Carbonara is my favourite. I love pasta so much.
Joanne Blunt
I like my pasta with sun-dried tomatoes and a tomato based sauce.
jackie curran
pasta with cheese
sarah davison
I like mine with loads of garlic and very cheesey
Phil Y
I love my pasta with an arrabiata sauce
Tracy Alder-Ashwin
with homemade tomato pasta sauce with melted cheese on top.
Mark Johnson
In a lasagne
Clare S
al dente
sarah
Carbonara with some grated Parmesan on top.
Catherine Culmer
I love pasta in any shape or form. I love fusilli chilli and tomato sauce or spaghetti carbonara
bex smith
with pesto 🙂
Tim Millington
Spaghetti Carbonara yummy!
Leslie Evans
Wholewheat, with bolognese sauce
Kim Newsome
Carbonara is my favourite sauce, but I prefer it with penne instead of spaghetti
donna clinton
I love my pasta with a homemade tomato based sauce with bacon onions and grated cheese on the top
Mark Rayner
I love it nice and cheesy
Kerry Lethbridge
All dente with a little pesto
Lani Nash
With any tomato and garlic based sauce
Mark Palmer
In a lasagne
sheila wilkinson
With a creamy sauce and fresh vegetables.I am also a bit of a pesto addict though. lovely and easy .
mike wells
with chicken and a tomato sauce
Sam Bresnahan
I like mine 2 ways.
Big shells stuffed with mozzarella and mascapone covered in tomato sauce and cheese on top
Fusilli pasta with red pesto and philadelphia cheese mixed in
Andrew Halliwell
nicely cooked with a nice sauce of course… 🙂
Katherine Coldicott
My favourite pasta dish is seafood linguine.
Linda Gerrard
Tomatoes to the max
Rachel R
depends on my mood!
Gloria Heathcote
im addicted to sacla pesto , its just so nice
Katie W
With duck and plum sauce
Anne Johnston
I like my pasta with mushrooms, sundried tomatoes and a cheese sauce. Deeeelish!
dorothy cavender
with bolonaise and peas
tracey thompson
I love pasta bakes, so easy
Maria Clarke
Pasta is great and just add a dollop of pesto – Fab (enjoyed the summer pesto)
Karen R
I love pasta in all different ways, but if I just want a really quick snack, I’ll make a bowl of pasta and stir in some Sacla – perfect 🙂
Simon Harrington
Simple, with a home made sauce
Elle Warwick
Cheesy and spicy!!
Susan Hoggett
in tomato and goat cheese sauce topped with crispy pancetto
Karis on rafflecopter
With tomato and basil sauce.
cathyj
in a pesto sauce
Jess Mandeville
Al dente with pesto, peas and sweetcorn
Tina Holmes
Chicken and bacon sauce
Kirsten Barthy
I adore pasta and have so many favs. The easiest ones are with pesto or aglio and olio with parmesan
Vikki D
with a tomato sauce and vegetables
Charlotte Hoskins
With a creamy tomato and basil sauce 🙂
Victoria
with green pesto and extra parmesan 😀
Lynda Brown
Garlic-y and creamy and lots of!
Alison
With bolognese, grated cheese and a mixed salad with vinaigrette dressing
Sarah N
I like it smothered in tomato and herbs
clare d
fresh with tomatoes and herbs with a squeeze of lemon! like it simple and tasty!
Gill Mitchell
just on it’s own with red pesto, yum 😀
Sharon L Johnson
love it with chhese x
Suzanne Howell
The favourite pasta dish in our house is my spaghetti with meatballs – which I slow cook in the oven. We are fans of Sacla though, it’s ideal for a quick mid-week meal and I always make extra as it is so useful to take as a pasta salad in lunchboxes the next day.
Rebecca Gransden
Sauce made from scratch with lots of fresh basil
Lorraine Carter
hot – lasagne or salmon with a light creamy sauce with tagiatelli.col-i love feta cheese, sun dried tomatoes and garlic pesto in a pasta salad with fusilli
donna jones
with carbona sauce
nicola arch
This would be fab in our house, the kids love pasta
nicola arch
spaghetti Bolognese
Paul Aislabie
lasagne
Jenny Harper
Nothing beats homemade lasagne… I’ve gone really hungry all of a sudden!
Gemma Poulding
With a bolognase sause
elaine stokes
anyway that you can think of………………. any sort, with any sauce its my staple diet
Pamela Gossage
with bolognese
claire haskins
tomatoe and garlic with plenty of cheese
Trudie Forde
With Bolognaise-Spahetti Bolognaise! I’m obsessed:)
leanne weir
hot, cheesy + filled with sundried tomatos!
Deirdre M
Lasagne. When made properly it is hard to beat it! I just love it.
Keith W
IMHO, given good ingredients, a simple carbonara can be sublime
Emma Matthews
MMMMMmmmmmmm Tomato sauce with mushrooms , sweetcorn and cheese on top …. you have me hungry now 🙂
Angela Wilcox
I love pasta with pesto, simple but delicious
Helen Gilbert
Fresh home made pasta with home made tomato sauce ,Parmesan shavings and chopped basil …..ciabatta bread and a bottle of Barolo…..BLISS!
lavinia moore
Always Aldente with a cheese sauce
Kelly Hanson
I’ve got a soft spot for prosciutto and cheese stuffed tortellini with green pesto and pine nuts.
Janet Dring
I love lasagne
Amanda Beamish
I have to be honest and say ‘Gluten free’ lol. However, my family really love a nice homemade lasagne with garlic bread
Liz Marriott
Can’t beat a good lasagne
Claire Green
aldente
Loma Wood
With any sauce at all ,salad and a glass of wine
Carroll Marsh
My Favourite way with Pasta is my Vegetarian Lasagne!I Use Soya mince or roasted vegetables with the tomato sauce,and a thick cheesy sauce topping!My Family and friends always ask me to make this for them!Thanks for your blogs I love reading them,they always cheer me up!!Thanks for this wonderful Giveaway,MMMmmmmmm X
hannah
With meatballs and cheese sprinkled on
Caroline Blaza
With tuna and sweetcorn
Rachael
Cream cheesy with salmon and cherry tomatoes
Amy J
I like my pasta in a tomato sauce with meatballs 🙂
EMMA WALTERS
stuffed with cheese, tomato & basil
Michael Cannon
In a home made tomato and basil sauce with tuna.
Heather Walsh
I like it with green pesto
tamalyn roberts
mixed with bolognese
cassie bedford
I like to cock my pasta in some stock as it gives the pasta a great added taste! I prefer it more cooked rather than al dente
Kelly Harper
Al dente with cheese
helen booth
My favourite is a good ole’ Spag Bol!
sgough
Creamy!
Ann Skamarauskas
al dente with just pesto for sauce
Tarbs Gill
With lots of pesto!
Steve Dickinson
Good olive oil and fresh tomatoes
Elizabeth Ferguson
With ham, mushrooms and heavy cream
Tracey Clapp
al dente with a drizzle of olive oil and gran padano.
Kerry bennett
I love brown pasta with a tomato sauce, spinach and prawns
Melanie Gardiner
Slightly al dente with a nice home made spicy tomato sauce
Jacqui S
With a tomatoes sauce with some strong grated cheddar on top, then garlic bread on the side
Lynne Durkin
Nice and soft with tomato and basil x
Daniel Stacey
Pasta with tomato & basil
Richard Randall
With clams and a cream sause.
laura anne grant
i nice chicken & brocolli bake yumm!
Aimee Wright
With lots of cheese and vegetables 🙂
john crocker
Pesto cheese and tomatoes
milli
With pasta, roast veg and bacon bits
Sarahann Tonner
With pesto and lots of cheese!
Charlotte Shaughnessy
with pesto and pine nuts
Greig spencer
tomato and garlic
Angela McDonald
Slightly al dente.. then mixed with pesto and fresh tomatoes topped with grates cheese!
Rachael Barratt
At the moment I like a good pasta salad with tuna, cherry tomatoes, red onion and a good oil.
Lucy Higgins
I like fusilli pasta with a spicy pepper sauce, chicken and grated cheese on the top 🙂
lynn heath
With a creamy cheesey bacon sauce!!!!!!!
Gillan Moloney
Home made garlic mayo, with bacon, chicken, spring onion , cheese and a touch of pepper.
Lorraine G (@LG2306)
With butter, black pepper and grated cheese.
Diane Radford
Just a pesto stirred lightly through
Nicola Robinson
spicy chicken with tomato sauce
claire elizabeth noke
soft and squidgy, covered in tomato and pesto 🙂
michelle banks
i love my pasta with green pesto and cashew nuts x
Danielle Graves
In a bake topped with lots of cheese
vicki hennie
Ooooo I love pasta salads yummmmy
Rebecca Townsend
Served with a tomato sauce & some salad
Rey Chunara
Love all kinds of pasta but I especially love a spinach lasagne
Fiona Mallard
At the moment, with summer veg and goat’s cheese
laura silver
sprinkled with crispy bacon, scrambled egg and broccolli 🙂
Danika Lloyd
With pesto 😀
Anne Dalzell
i usually like my pasta and veg al dente but i love my risotto creamy and squishy!
tracy sinclair
With chicken, garlic and sweetcorn x
Michelle Ferguson
Lasagne has to be my favourite
Jennifer Potter
Raviolli stuffed with almost anything mmmm
Andy Kadir-Buxton
With a glass of red wine.
Carol Emmett
A good quality pasta (and dried is fine!) with home made Bolognese sauce – just enough to coat the pasta.
AJ
Covered in salad cream
mellissa williams
With meatballs and cheese or pesto
sarah brooker
seafood pasta
Amelia Stephenson
with pesto?
Sue McCarthy
Linguine with pesto
Mike Marsh
hmm, spicy pesto, sundried tomoatoes and some mozzerella maybe?
Becca Staples
With a tomato based sauce and lots of parmesan cheese x
Linda Thorn
pasta is a way of art
with many flavours with it
but the best for me
its got to be
cheese sauce with it
Lorraine G (@LG2306)
No heavy sauces. Just butter or olive oil with black pepper …. perhaps some grated cheese or Parmesan … and pesto, of course!
craig dillon davis
Spicy meatballs
Hannah Lawrence (Lewenstein)
With a tomato and chick pea sauce, and lots of cheeeeeeeese!!
Jen @ Blue Kitchen Bakes
As long as there’s cheese with my pasta I’m happy 🙂
Cheryl O'Sullivan
With lots of cheese and bacon!
Lorraine Polley
i love pasta with mixed veg
Di Coke
…with a TON of cheese! 🙂
kayleigh
either stuffed with pancetta and mozzarella or tossed in butter with a spicy sauce
Maureen Millward
In Italy I recently tried the testaroli type with pesto and pistacchio nuts and it was delicious.
faye huntington
with pesto! faye x
Belinda Matthews
With tomato and basil x
Emily OMara
brown with pesto, pine nuts and anything else in the fridge!
Julia Linsley
Al Dente with Red Pepper & Chille Pesto / Baby Tomatoes and Prawns
Jan Richards
With fresh pesto, leaves from the garden, roast tomatoes and peppers, a glug of olive oil, and a sprinkling of parmesan cheese over the top – yum!
Julie Savage
Baked Penne with roasted vegetables
kayleigh Bates
With meatballs and cheese, yummy!
Stacey Haines
Mmmmmmm it’s got to be spagbol 🙂
Sarah B
With a tomato sauce and lots of parmesan.
wendy procter
Tomatoes and Basil and a sprinkling of cheese yum x
MichelleD
With lots of seafood, white wine and garlic!
CAROL PATRICK
With tomato sauce and topped with cheese
Melanie Edjourian
I always cook my pasta so it’s al dente and I love to use a range of sauces as I love to eat a variety rather than the same thing over and over.
Tina Lawton
With a tomato based sauce and loads and loads of cheese.
Michelle McCulloch
macaroni cheese
Laura F
Hot with mayo, tuna and sweetcorn
Lisa Everaert
I love mine with pesto and cheese xx
Keith H
A nice home made pizza with pepers & pesto.
Keri Jones
I love pasta so many ways. My favourite is shells as the sauce gets stuck inside and you get a scrummy mouthful, yum, yum, yum. My mouth is watering just thinking about it, ha 🙂 x
Jackie Allum
Wholewheat and al dente
jackie chapman
I love seafood and red pesto with my pasta
Viv
With tomatoes, basil and chillies
joanna flowers
Spinach and ricotta cannelloni covered in cheese and pesto mmmmmmm
champaklal lad
Indian Style
Janet T
For tea I am having chorizo and fiery pesto with vermicelli
Jayne K
Wholemeal spaghetti with a tomato sauce and topped with grated cheddar.
caroline tonge
In a lasagne 🙂
Christopher Read
With tomato sauce and cheese
kay S
In cheese and tomato sauce.
Hellie's Corner
I love wholemeal pasta of any shape, it has a great flavor and is great in a homemade bolognese.
Mummy of Two
With a nice creamy mushroom sauce
Maura
I like pasta, in all shapes and forms with almost everything, well not shellfish, I’m allergic to them.
Maura x
Susan Williams
Linguini with scallops and pesto.
GLENDA HANKS
I love brown pasta with Sacla sauce with basil and cherry tomatoes served as a bolognese
Kerry Brown
with cheese!
katie skeoch
freshly made with homemade tomato sauce, lots of basil and black pepper – yummy
frances hopkins
I love Spag bol x
adeinne tonner
I like my pasta with a plain tomato sauce
rachel richardson
Cheesy, sun dried tomatoes!
fiona mcbride
Love brown rice pasta with almond pesto and feta cheese topped with anchovies
carolyn joyce
with olive oil and sun dried tomatoes
Hannah Ingham
Cheesy and with garlic bread! 🙂
mama syder
with garlic & cheese
Helen Southam
I love to keep pasta simple, spaghetti with olive oil, garlic and chilli is so easy and quick and so deliciously good 🙂
Immi
I love pasta with a spicy tomato sauce and prawns!
Jo welsh
Love it with green pesto and a serving of garlic bread on the side
Christopher Millward
with a spicy tomato sauce and some pesto.
Emma Harris
With a nice Tomato based sauce with a tablespoon of red pesto mixed in 😀
Laura Murray
Fresh and spicy!
Holly S
With passata, pesto and bacon and covered in looooads of parmesan 🙂
sandralynn ralph
with chucks of chicken and grated cheese on the top
Rachel B
i like tortellini best of all pasta, although I love it all.
Natasha Mairs
i like mine covered in lots of cheese!
Tracey Gwynne
with garlic butter, and a creamy cheese sauce
Michele Hemmings
with pesto and parmesan..yum!
Sophie Lester
With bacon, vegetables and tomato and garlic sauce.
stephen holman
i buy a lot of the stir in sauces which i mix in after ive boiled my pasta till its super soft!
victoria thurgood
I like it with lots of cheese sauce
Stephanie Whitehouse
with pesto, bacon, mushrooms and cashews
Lisa Wilkinson
I like pasta in so many ways. With tomato sauces and creamy sauces and also pasta bakes.
Solange
With pesto
Teresa Lee
A spicy tomato sauce, basil and mushrooms
Gilla01
I need sauce of some kind with mine, whether it’s savoury mince for spag, or a cheesy sauce. I’ve not tried it with pesto – perhaps that will become a favourite.
Tamsin Dean
with any spicy sauce and loads of fresh veg
Chloe
I love my pasta with tomato-free bolognese sauce!
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Carys Jones
As a lasagne
jenette ogborn
my kiddies love pasta with lots of tomato sauce
Eleanor Wigmore
I like it all ways! In recent years I have appreciated pasta simply with good ingredients such as garlic, kale and pine nuts or a really good tomato sauce (especially with spaghetti!)
Sandra M
Love wild mushroom pasta
Karen Whittaker
With garlic and butter sauce
Laura Baker
With bacon, mushrooms and cheese – Carbonara is my fave 🙂
leigh boyle
pasta in whchever way i love it
Spencer Broadley
Generayy i like to cook the little shells/ribbons – then let them get cold – and the mix with a finely cut veg/slad stuff and a nice oil based vinagerette – keeps for 2 days in the fridge and gorgeous – whack it out with som jacket potatoes and home-made mayonnaise
Steven Appleton
Hot & Spicy 🙂
Claire Hull
With a spicy arrabiatta sauce
Cal Littlehales
Wheat free preferably but I do treat myself now and again to Spinach and Ricotta cannelloni which I find irresistible.
Kathryn Morris
penne carbonara is my all time favorite!
Angela Sandhu
Al dente with pesto
Susan Elai Carter
I like my pasta lots of different ways – fave hot dish is tagliatelle in a creamy, garlicky broccoli and mushroom sauce or Cold pasta salad of pasta twists, pesto, Pinenuts, sultanas, chopped dates, apricots, watercress and rocket.
Katie Kingsbury
With cheese (ricotta is nice but any cheese will do), sundried tomatoes and black olives. Aaaaaaand now I’m hungry!
michelle dootson
in tomato pesto with roasted veg and chorizo
David C
I like Chicken, mushroom and broccoli tagliatelle, Yummmmmy 😛
David C
pesto on pizza for extra flavour 😛
David C
Ignored this as I did not see the question before leave this comment 😮
maria molly taylor
mmmmmm I love all types of pasta – Spag Bol, Lasagne, pasta with mushrooms and ham in a cheesy sauce – you cant beat Pasta !!!
Louise A
I love spag bog
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With lots of cheese and peppers and baked well with crispy edges
angela
gemma clark
With cheese, I do love chilli pesto though
Sarah Davies
All ways! But at the moment I would choose it in a lasagne
Marie Evans
I like my pasta with a Tomato & Basil sauce,With added cooked fresh mushrooms & a sprinkling of cheese.I have never tried peso sauce though i will have to give it a try.
Jennifer Bailey
With and spicy sauce.
Kelly Horsley
I like all pasta but especially with a sweet tomato and balsamic sauce and a little bit of chilli for a bit of a kick
Andrea Morton
With a mushroom and garlic sauce
Rebecca Allen
I like pasta any way! My favourite has to be a homemade lasagne with a tomato and onion salad and fresh baked garlic bread on the side 🙂
Natalie White
Al dente and with lots of sauce!
Bhavesh Mistry
with pesto
Elizabeth (Liz) Briggs
Love Tuna Pasta Bake 🙂
Lucy Zelazowski
Lots of garlic, herbs and cheesy. I cook a tasty feta cheese pasta bake with lots of chilli! Delicious. I love Scala great for cheats and shortcuts. Fingers. Such a tasty giveaway thank you.
Dawn Chapman
With lot’s of cheese!
Stacey Guilliatt
I like it many different ways but usually with some kind of tomato sauce
Stacey Guilliatt
The wild garlic one sounds delicious! #triedtested
tony allan
With a spicy sauce
kaz
With pesto chicken and spinach
Dorota Amellal
Pasta with classic green pesto .
Michelle lintern
A tomato sauce, meatballs and grated cheese.
Carolynn Woodland
With a spicy tomato sauce
pete c
in a delicious lasagne
makila wheatley
in a spicy tomato sauce with chicken, onions and peppers topped with cheese and chives
Louise Comb
As long as it’s not overcooked, I like it virtually any way 🙂 But my favourite is with poached salmon, cashew nuts, olives, capers and cream. It’s delicious.
Jo Glasspool
With a bit of pesto and salad xx
Gavin O'Shaughnessy
Pasta with cheese, bacon and chicken. Added with some pepper and chilli for some spice
Jo McGawley
With a vegetable and pesto sauce, pancetta and parmesan. Yum!
Morisca
Creamy, simple and tasty
Caroline H
I love mine with olives, rocket, mozzarella and pesto.
Paula Barker
with pesto and roasted veg
hayley Green
Carbonara 😀
klara cort
I love freshly made ravioli, and hubby does a brilliant sauce where he adds cooked chicken to it with plenty of spices…it’s so amazing, I would marry him again just for that!
Tracey Parker
Depending on my mood I like arabbiata, lasagne or carbonara, mmmm
Graeme Macmillan
Al Dente
With a meat and tomato sauce
Laura Pritchard
With a cheesy pesto sauce!
kellyjo walters
I prefer the spagetti types rather than shells etc …. I love with roasted veg, prawns and creme fresh
Maxine
I like to keep it simple – love pesto, but also like pasta with just olive oil, garlic and chillies
Shelley White
I love pasta with aubergine & tomato !
Helen Atkins
Tomatoes, peppers and basil
Richard Rowley
I’m quite partial to lasagne
Andrea Williams
I make a mean arrabiata and puttenesca, even though I probably can’t spell!
Mary Chez
I like lasagne
fozia
Lots of cheese
KATHY D
With tomato based sauce
Vikki
With tomato, cheese and basil
Laura Jeffs
I love pasta with a good pesto sauce, or with tuna and black olives 😀 xx
tom buchanan
boiling hot with lashings of green pesto!
Suzanne Jackson
I like tagliatelle with pesto, mayo and a tin of tuna. 🙂
Carly Ann
I like it fresh with bacon, spinach, sun dried tomatoes, courgettes, peppers and sun dried tomato pesto and a bit of crème fraiche! It’s delicious!
Louise Perry Fairweather
In lasagne
Choclette
Pasta is such a great standby and good comfort food too. I grew up with lentil Bolognese being a regular on our table, so that is probably my all time favourite way of eating pasta.
P Bradbury
I love pasta with seafood – especially clams!
Ruth Harwood
I love my pasta any way it comes, but especially in a carbonara sauce 🙂
Pete Schofield
Any pasta with a simple tomato and basil sauce, or just mixed with pesto, sounds a bit boring doesn’t it!
Hekna
Love squid ink pasta with clams, white wine, garlic and chili. Yum!
Laura Loo
I love it with bacon, mushrooms and salad cream
MANDY DOHERTY
Pesto & vintage cheddar
jessica cook
Im a huge pasta fan…but I must say a creamy mushroom sauce with chicken and panchetta is lovely x
Laura Asplin
With Grated Cheese
Louise Asekokhai
Smothered in sun dried tomato peto
Lara Davis
Love my pasta with cheesy sauces xx
thekiwibex
With a good creamy sauce!
pat
with mushrooms and cream
Julia Plant
al dente with pesto, chicken and pine nuts, or spicy arrabiata
teressa oliver
with lots of sauce and cheese and thin noodles
katrina walsh
Quite hard with a sprinkle of rock salt
Sophie H
I like it with brie, tomato, spring onions, garlic, oregano and a splash of olive oil.
Paula Readings
I like my Spaghetti in a bolognaise.
Sheila Reeves
I love it with broccoli, chilli and garlic – or with pesto, adding some chicken for some protein – I don’t think there is a way I don’t like pasta 😉
Chris Davies
Cannelloni I love!
Tammy Tudor
garlic sauce and cheese 🙂
Alexandra Blue
saucy or cheesy!
Penny Jenkins
Penne l’amatriciana (if I’ve spelt it correctly!)
Kiran Parry
I like mine as a pasta bake or with cheese or as a pasta salad. I like pasta many different ways.
Ann Pierce
Love all sorts of Pasta,especially with tuna,or Bolognese sauce.
Natasha Vizard
I like tagliatelle with pesto, vittoria tomatoes and a Parmesan shavings, simple but delicious 🙂
ANDREW ROWLANDS
SEAFOOD LINGUINE – MMMMMMM
cassie
Very very soft penne with tomato and chilli and garlic!
Sarah Maclean
As a lasagne or spaghetti mainly, with a creamy seafood sauce and plenty of cheese
Richard Eldred Hawes
Crab Linguini please
Rebecca Beesley
I love fresh pasta with something simple like butter and black pepper on it. (or pesto of course)
Bethanie Harrison
Tomatoey and cheesy 😀 !
Liz
With Marcella Hazan’s buttery tomato sauce and lots of parmesan!
Karen Christmas
Canneloni is my absolute favourite
claire woods
with a tomato sauce and cheese on top.
Marie Nicolaou
Pasta with cheese on top yummy x
Hayley Morgan
I love love love lasagne! If the world were to end tomorrow, it would be my last meal!
Amanda Richardson
Pasta and tuna bake topped off with cheese
Hilda Hazel Wright
I really love creamy sauces but I don’t have them often as they’re a bit too indulgent! We have amazing tomato based sauces with lots of spice and veg. But for a simple tasty meal sometimes just stirring in Sacla green pesto is perfect!
Sarah Archibald
Spicy!
Sandra Clarke
With a tomato sauce and parmesan cheese.
Roy Osmond
wow – such a cool hamper, definitely on my christmas list if I don’t win.
jennifer thorpe
I like a creamy tagliatelle and I never leave it al dente!
GEOFF WICKENS
PASTA WITH MEATBALLS
Martina Pichova
With pesto, peas and sweet corn or pasta bakes
Rebecca Griffiths
In a ragu
Leanne V Mckenna
Always with cheese! mmm
claire griffiths
i love pasta with a creamy cheesy sauce
FARIDAH BROOKER
I love it with chorizo and squash, or in a lasagne, or with anything!
Michelle Smith
Macaroni cheese is my favourite, but I love pasta and will have it any way I can
lindsay
al dente with olive oil tomatoes, basil and mozzerella yum
Bonnie King
Naughty, but with loads of pesto and cheese!
Milly Y
With a lovely, creamy carbonara sauce!
christine shelley
I’m not a lover but the rest of my family have it all the time, they prefer it to traditional english meat and 3 veg, theylike every permutation, carbonara, tomato, even with salad cream and cheese
maureen findley
smothered in bolognese sauce
chantelle hazelden
with turkey mince, pine nuts and green pesto 🙂
Galina V
There are many ways I enjoy cooking with pasta, my two most favourite recipes are spaghetti alla Genovese and pasta with clams
Heather T
Linguine with Philidelphia
Stacey Melia
With tonnes of pesto!
Sharon Hingley
Homemade with pesto and parmesan shavings.
Gill Bland
Stuffed with beef and red wine OR just natural with butter, black pepper and some fresh basil
emma falvi
with a creamy cheese sauce with bacon
john hatrey
Chorizo and chicken with a tomato and chilli sauce.
Julia Nicholls
I love linguine with a creamy garlic mushroom sauce.
silvia stoyanova
with pasta
Paul Emmerson
I love my pasta with ham, melted cheese and green pesto
Kay panayi
Garlicky x
janet humphrey
I like my pasta as simple as possible, a light tomato and pesto dressing, some Parmesan
Helen Battle
I like to make a carbonara,lasagne,bolognaise and stir fry
Tom
Al dente! and then there is very little I dislike.
Favourites: with Zuccini, garlic and chilli.
with clams, garlic and oil.. mouth watering have to stop.
Liam Bishop
My favourite is just with salad cream on top. Weird I know!
IZZY
with tuna on top
pauline hill
WITH ANY PASTA
Anthony G
Many different ways (I love pasta!) Stir fry is good…or anything with penne 🙂
Angie Hoggett
I love any sort of pasta dish but what I really love is making Parmesan crisps for the top, delicious!
Ness (@baggiesbabe69)
With carbonara sauce
Joan
pesto pasta and cheese is loved by all my family.
Chris Davies
With tomato and pesto
maxine m partridge
i love pasta bakes with some salad
Julie Fisher
With meatballs and pasta sauce
Allan Smith
I love it with pesto, chopped chili’s and grated cheese.
Melanie McNair
Served with bolonaise sauce
Pat Stubbs
in carbonara or penne with smoked salmon
Hazel Rea
My favourite way to have pasta is with carbonara.
Donna Gilligan
We love pasta any way you can think of. I use chilli pesto with leftover roast chicken and fusilli for a quick easy meal, but canneloni or lasagne would probably be my favourites
Lisa Collins
No fuss with a heap of parmesan
Kate @ Family Fever
Love the sound of the summer pesto. We like pasta with tuna, a tomato and basil sauce and lots of cheese! Thanks for linking up with #TriedTested
Florence Cross
I like mine layered with mozzarella, pepperoni, sun dried tomatoes & olives with a passata sauce over.
Maya Russell
I like pasta with a creamy sauce, like carbonara.
Jane Willis
Lots of different ways. This week I tossed some with strips of fennel scented salami and dried oregano then stirred in a little fresh tomato sauce.
Sarah Forrester
I like my pasta with a spicy stir in sauce and prawns – mmmmmm !
Gemma Snell
I love it all ways, Hot with cheese & bacon or as pasta bolognese or cold with chicken & bacon….i could go on
Tim Graham
Cooked 🙂
Tracey Belcher
Love fresh egg pasta with mincemeat and peppers
Andrew Petrie
Lasagne. No contest.
Sarah H
I just love pasta in any form but one of my top favourites is homemade carbonara.
nicola clarkson
I love mine hot with green pesto, spicy sausage and vegeatables
Joanne Beale
Love lasagne
Claire C
I love macaroni cheese with sweetcorn mixed in! i could live on it lol
Jill Webb
With meat ball, in a lasagne.with veg all sorts of way no one favourite
Kelly Koya
I love spaghetti, with butter, tequila, lime, coriander, chilli and crab.
Sarah
Spaghetti carbanara
Phil Darling
I like mine with Chili and pesto
leanne abel
I like my pasta cold with salad
lyn burgess
I like pasta lots of ways, but my favourite is in a bolognese sauce with parmesan
Lynne OConnor
With tomatoes and basil
Vivienne Wilkes
I like my pasta with cooked chicken, pesto, spring onions and a dash of cream!
Kevin Smith
Plain with some nice olive oil, a splash of balsamic and some black pepper
Helen M
Very al dente spaghetti with puttanesca sauce
Leanne Lunn
I love it in Lasagne
Pam Whitham
with tomato and basil
jemima bradshaw
I love pasta!!! I love it with anything but has to have cheese!!!!!
richard hill
covered with tomatoes and lots of cheese
Rebecca Allen
Al dente with extra virgin olive oil, black pepper and freshly grated parmesan
Lyla
I love tuna pasta bake
Kevin Honey
Al dente
Emma Ferguson
Pasta with Rosemary and garlic roasted vegetables
Allison sullivan
as well as spagetti bolognese we also love tuna pasta bake and also with crsips on the top when grilled for that extra crunch very yummy
Julie Booth
with pesto sauce and sun dried tomatoes
Heather Macklin
Very simply cooked with a fresh tomato sauce, cheese and a swirl of pesto!
Stephanie Tsang
I like pasta in a bake.
Paul Wilson
All kinds of ways. Lasagne is nice.
Zoe G
Has to be in a lasagne
Rachael G
Spaghetti Carbonara with garlic bread
Janet Rawstron
I love pasta in a cheese sauce with sliced smoked sausage.
Ritchie
I love arrabiata and puttanesca sauces.
Christina Curtis
Covered in Tomato and Basil sauce!
Judith Allen (@JudeVFR400)
I love macaroni cheese, but for an easy quick dinner pasta and pesto with salad is perfect.
simon Benson
I love rigatoni baked with tomato sauce.. Delish
sarah birkett
I love pasta in a lot of ways, the easiest is with pesto & spinach
Aimee Swift
with mozerella cheese X
Leah Wheatley
Cooked into a spag bol
LynneH
I don’t think there’s any way I don’t like pasta. But it’s great with pesto and some cherry tomatoes from the garden
jodiecrossley
with fresh basil, tomatoes and a little parmesan on top
Tracy Newton
I love lasagne.
Janice Mackin
As Spaghetti Bolognese
Anneka Hulse
Tomatoes, cheese and chicken with a kick of spice
Marycarol
Love lasagne or spag bol!
Jemma Taylor
Pesto, peas and smoked bacon
Jayne T
Served with a salad and sprinkled with cheese.
Ashleigh Allan
With pesto and chicken and parmesan!
Rena Plumridge
With lots of lovely Parmesan on
Emma Nixon
Chicken, lots of veg and pesto sauce
Amy PJ
In my mouth!
Angela Bates
With a touch of cheese, basil and tomato sauce
Selina Jefferies
with meatballs and tomato sauce with plenty of parmesan – yum!
Victoria N
I love mine with fresh home made-pesto, goats cheese, pancetta and cherry tomatoes with some toasted pine nuts for extra crunch!
Sandra Lane
with a simple tomato and red pepper sauce.
gabyL
lightly salted, with piston and a sprinkle of cheese!
Sally Ann Savo
With pesto, pine nuts and little cheese. Mmmmm
Heather Cain
I like my pasta very simple – tomato and bacon sauce
Kerry gray
I love all kinds of pasta but love a homemade vegetable and cheese baked one
Lisa Evans
I love any pasta but my favourite is spinach and ricotta cannelloni!
Lynsey Buchanan
with basil & chilli
Ali Thorpe
With sun-dried tomatoes, a little roast garlic, olive oil and sprinkle of cheese and fresh basil.
frances hopkins
with Parmesan
Lorraine Tinsley
With loads of sun dried tomato pesto, I’m not that bothered as long as there’s loads of it!
Alison Joyce
With basil pesto 🙂
Alison Bruce
I like pasta best mixed with seafood.
Elaine Savage
Carbonara please!
Kathy Cakebread
spag bol
Elaine Savage
Carbonate please!
Paul
With tomatoes and mushrooms.
Jen Rogers
Always Tomato Sauces for me and Basil – love it!
Angie Allen
With loads of grated cheese
sue hodges
best with bolognaise sauce
laura jayne bates
love it with a cheese and tomato sauce
Emma Birley
Carbonara; I can’t have many due to health reasons ;(
But my daughter would looooove these!
Natasha M
With yummy pesto!
Sarah Goodman
with pesto, sundries tomatoes and mozzarella
Claire D
as bolognaise with mince, garlic, piri piri sauce and tomato puree
Kay T
Pasta tossed in a sauce made from tomatoes, chilli, basil, salt & pepper. Simple but delicious.
Lorna Kennedy
Totally smothered in sauce, cheese and basil!
shaheen
Spiced up.
laura stewart
with Tomato sauce xx
Donna R
Arrabbiata sauce please – Spicy
Lucia Jefferson
with lots of pesto 🙂
Shelley Hawkins
with heat in both senses & fish
laura banks
spaghetti with lots of cheese
Abigail Cullen
I like my pasta with Bolognese sauce and lean mince meat.
Ms Suan Watts
with pesto
Michael Griffin
with plenty of cheese and tomatoes
Joanna Butler-Savage
with garlic oil and parmesan
Claudia Dance
With plenty of parmesan…yum!
Janine Phillips
With sundried tomato, basil and cheese x
Julie D
tomato & basil for me!
clair downham
with chorizo peppers and mushrooms and lots of cheese
elaine dale
with a hot cheesy sauce and bread roll
Abigail Daniel
tomato + Basil 🙂 x
Eva Vida
Baked in the Greek dish pastitsio 🙂
alex fowler
stuffed with mushrooms in a tomatoe sauce
kim neville
I like my pasta with a carbonara sauce
Julie Tift
I like my pasta in a lasagne, beautiful.. meat, veg and of course pasta, what could be better?
Heather Haigh
With lots of tomato, olives and basil.
maggie ali
I love my pasta with green pesto, can’t get enough of it 🙂
Crystal
I like my penne pasta al dente with green pesto….or lasagne….or carrot and zucchinni ribbons with fettacinni.
Christopher Packer
I mix a little melted margarine and tomato ketchup and a dollop of pesto with cooked pasta. Its very nice
Kim Carberry
I love Pasta with Tuna in a salad.
melanie stirling
Lasagne with a thick cheesy topping.
Lynn Parry
My favourite is pesto with chicken and green peppers
Tracy Nixon
In a tomato based sauce with basil and added chicken, tuna etc!
Olga carpenter
Pasta cheese bake
Corinne Peat
Love a tuna pasta salad.
Sam Williams
Al dente
Susan Laing
Just a simple plain olive oil dressing with sundried tomatoes and good quality Italian parmesan
Lucy
Healthy, with fish and light cheese sauce.
Taylah CAtlow
I love my pasta with a tomato, garlicky, rich sauce served with tagliatelle!
Taylah CAtlow
I love cooking with Sacla Pesto!! What an awesome prize 😀
Tracey Peach
Pasta cheese & bacon Bake yum!
Susan sargent
With tomatoes and basil
John Taggart
Pasta and tuna bake topped off with cheese
karen cowley
With tomato and basil x
nicola bull
mixed with lots of spices
Michelle Austin
Fusilli with tomato sauce. Yum.
iain
ilove lasagne
winnie
i like pesto pasta with seafood 😀
Debbie Skerten
I like my pasta with a tomato based sauce. Yum x
Michele kay
Love it with pesto and Parmesan plus cherry tomato
Katie Corr
hot, cheesy + filled with sundried tomatos!
Laura
I like my pasta all different ways, but most often with cheese. Lasagne is my all time favourite.
Actually forget this, can I just come to dinne at your house please? You’ve just made me ery hungry and it isn’t even lunch time yet!
Elizabeth
Lol! You’re more than welcome any time at our table Laura – one condition, you’re making the sweeties for afters! 😀
Coombemill
My kids actually had Sacla pesto on pasta last night. I mix it with greek yogurt and grated cheddar for a creamy sauce. Perfect for a quick supper
Elizabeth
It’s great stuff isn’t it – actually, we had pesto on pasta for lunch yesterday with a lovely locally grown salad. 🙂