Fast as Pasta Tomato Sauce Recipe Jacquilynne
- 100g of dried pasta
- clove of garlic
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- medium tomato or 2 roma tomatoes if available
- 1 tsp of sugar (optional)
- 2 pinches of salt
- pinch of pepper
- parmeggiano regiano to taste
- Fill the large pot with water, add a pinch of salt and set it on high heat to boil.
- Set the small pot over medium heat to warm.
- Peel and finely slice the garlic.
- Throw the garlic in the small pot and add the olive oil.
- Stir and leave to sizzle.
- By this point, the water in the large pot should be near boiling.
- Score an X on the bottom of your tomato and use the slotted spoon to lower it into the water in the pot.
- Count to 20.
- Remove the tomato using the slotted spoon and put it on your cutting board.
- Add pasta to the boiling water (stir it occasionally), turn the heat down to medium and let it boil.
- Turn the heat under the small pot up to high.
- By the time youve put the pasta in the boiling water, the tomato is cool enough to touch.
- Peel off the skin from the score marks you made.
- It should come off easily.
- Dice the tomato into a small dice.
- Add half of the tomato to the small pot, which should be sizzling, but not yet burning.
- Instant steam should spring up.
- Add salt and pepper and optional sugar and stir vigorourly with the metal fork for about a minute.
- Mash the tomatoes up as you stir to help break them down.
- Add the rest of the tomatoes, lower the heat to medium-high and let the sauce boil together until the pasta is done, stirring occasionally.
- If the sauce starts to get dry (thats actually a good sign!)
- add some water from the pasta pot to thin it out again, a soup spoon or two at a time.
- When the pasta is cooked, drain it, return it to the pot, then pour the tomato sauce over it from the other pot.
- Toss them together.
- Sprinkle parm to taste
- Taste
pasta, clove of garlic, olive oil, tomato, sugar, salt, pepper, regiano
Taken from www.chowhound.com/recipes/fast-pasta-tomato-sauce-11284 (may not work)