Besides garlic bread, what would go good with fettucine alfredo?

Question

Besides garlic bread, what would go good with fettucine alfredo?

Answer 1

Any good meal requires a variety of textures, tastes, smells and, yes, even colours.

Spinach salad is excellent with Fettucine Alfredo.  It's light, and provides lots of texture, taste and colour contrast.  With baby spinach leaves, try adding grape tomatoes (for colour), celery (for crunch), and radishes (bitter radishes balance the sweet tomatoes ... and radishes offer great colour).  Top with a simple Olive Oil and Vinegar dressing.

As well, simple white bread.  Bread is not meant to be cut cleanly and neatly and put on a plate.  It's meant to be torn in two, and placed in a basket in the center of the table.  Whenever someone wants some, they simply tear some off.  Barbaric, right?  Yeah ... great, isn't it?

With your meal, I'd recommend a good red wine.

For dessert: Alfredo is a heavy cream sauce, so by the end of the meal, you want to clean your palate.  A light fruit plate is perfect; blackberries, strawberries, melon, grapes, and small pieces of apple covered with a light drizzling of raw honey.  I don't recommend bananas for two reasons: they're heavy, and they contain triptophan, which will put you and/or your guests to sleep.

Above all, eat slowly.  Take your time and savour each bite.  Meals shouldn't take 10-15 minutes to eat.  They can linger for an hour or more.  Slow down, enjoy what's in front of you and the company of family and friends.

Bon Appetit!

Answer 2

bread sticks

Answer 3

White bread :DDD

Answer 4

lettuce tomato chips and fine wine

Answer 5

bread sticks with alfredo sauce. yum.

Answer 6

Bread, of any type. I like buttered bread to put my noodles in and then eat it. It's very good.  

Answer 7

A good caesar salad!!

Answer 8

Garlic knots, there is a great and very easy recipe on foodnetwork.com, It is Emeril's

Answer 9

I love it with bacon pieces and just plain italian bread.

Answer 10

I always add some peas in at the end. I'll just nuke some in a small container and add it to the sauce.

Answer 11

Once your meal is complete and on the plate....chop up some fresh tomatoes and sprinkle on top...It's delicious.

Answer 12

A fresh garden salad or chef's salad , just make sure you ask the chef, LOL .

Answer 13

garlic

Answer 14

I like to have broccoli. It livens up the plate.

Answer 15

Just plain italian bread with butter tastes great! A Ceaser salad might go well with it too!

Answer 16

A salad.

Answer 17

bread sticks

salad

Answer 18

What about sauteed green beans with bits of carmelized onions or shallots?  

After green beans are cooked, drizzle with a balsamic vinegar or a squeeze of fresh lemon juice.  The acidity and crispness of the green beans should contrast nicely with the creamy richness of the fettucine alfredo.