Ingredients for Tomato cream pasta
- 370 g spaghetti
- 100 g unsalted butter
- 75 g tomato puree
- 300 ml double cream – This can be less or a single cream if you prefer a light taste!) A whole double cream package is very heavy
- 60 g or more flat-leaf parsley
- 20 g or more grated hard cheese; i.e. Grana Padano, Parmigiano, or Pecorino
- Pasta water – 1.5% of salt in water
- 2 litre water
- 30 g salt (for boiling spaghetti)
Cooking Instructions for making Tomato cream pasta
Prepare a pot with pasta water to boil spaghetti and start boiling
Chop the parsley well and leave a pinch of it for garnishing
Heat a large frying pan with butter in medium heat
Once melted butter, put tomato puree in the pan and cook it slightly to make it fragrant. It’s like spreading the puree into a pan with a spatula
Put the cream and mix it well until the sauce looks evenly orange. Stop the heat until the spaghetti is ready. Sauce with cream can be very thick if the heat continues. Taste the sauce and adjust it with a pinch of salt if needed. Note that you’ll add some grated cheese later and spaghetti is boiled with salt. It doesn’t have to be proper saltiness at this stage.
Just before the spaghetti boiling ends, heat the pan again. Take the spaghetti from the pot and put in the sauce. Mix them. Add chopped parsley. Mix them well again.
Remove the pan from heat. Add grated cheese and mix it. If the sauce becomes too thick, you may add pasta water slightly.
Serve it to a plate and garnish it with parsley!
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