Making Rigatoni Pasta

Series Summary

Pasta comes in all different shapes and sizes, and can be cooked in a variety of ways with a range of different sauces and dressings. Rigatoni is a tube shaped pasta that is quite versatile. It is usually ridged, and can be coupled with a number of sauces, from creamy to chunky, which explains why it is so popular. One of the great things about pasta is that you can cook a large meal for just a small amount of money. Throwing in some vegetables or meat and a nice tomato sauce or creamy herb pasta sauce with some pasta creates a delicious and hearty meal without spending a lot of money or time on dinner.

In this free video recipe, our expert chef will demonstrate how to make rigatoni. In this cheap and hearty dinner recipe series, you will learn easy step-by-step instructions on how to prepare the vegetables and cook the sausage to add your rigatoni. You will also get tips and advice on how season the vegetables and pasta, how to serve your meal and even how to store the left overs. This is a great meal for a large gathering, and is sure to please the whole family.

Video Transcript

"This is Rich Buccola here in NYC and today on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make an expensive meal that my uncle use to call rigatoni alleyou. Today I'm going to show you a meal its use to be call actually I guess like a poor mans meal because it would be whatever you have laying around and throw into a pot. Something like a pot luck I guess it's a pasta dish were going to use rigatoni today it has a main sauce it's olive oil and garlic. Anything you do with olive oil and garlic is always heaven so today to jazz it up a bit were going to put some sausage in it some bruschetta. Were going to cook down some broccoli in it and some mushroom and onion and I'm telling you this is going to be real quick fun and taste amazing. Make my garlic bread here on Expert Village you can see where I make some garlic bread make the garlic bread with this home run it is a home run. So when I get back were going to start showing you all the ingredients and the breakdown to what my uncle use to call rigatoni alleyou."