I bought some tasty tomatoes so I’m going to use them for a quick and simple tomato pasta dish. I’m going to gently cook the tomatoes in garlic flavored good quality olive oil to get the juices out. Once it’s a sauce, I’ll drop some fresh basil to give it a nice aromatic finish. Take all this and use it to nicely cover some warm al dente spaghetti. I’m telling you, it’s an amazing Mediterranean meal!
Watch How To Make It:
One great thing about this quick and simple tomato pasta, besides the delicious taste, is the smell while you cook it. It makes you hungry! Also, the kitchen smells like a Mediterranean garden. It’s really nice to enjoy this dish for a quick but relaxed lunch at home.
Here is the written recipe, with the ingredients and step by step instructions:
Quick and Simple Tomato Pasta
Equipment
Instructions
- Start by removing the cores of the tomatoes
- Then chop the tomatoes into small pieces and add them to a large bowl
- In a preheated pan at medium heat add 4 tablespoons of olive oil and the crushed garlic. Cook it for 30 seconds
- Then add the chopped tomatoes and the juices they left in the bowl
- Add 1 teaspoon of salt and cook at medium heat for 7 minutes
- Next we add the spaghetti in a boiling pot with a teaspoon of salt and cook for 2 minutes less than what it says on the pasta box
- Once the pasta has cooked, add 1/2 ladle of pasta water into the sauce, the black pepper, the chopped basil and then the pasta. Cook for 2 minutes while mixing the pasta with the sauce
- Add more fresh basil at the end and serve. Optionally you can sprinkle over some parmesan cheese
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