Easy tomato sauce

Name: Easy tomato sauce
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 2 cloves of garlic; olive oil; 1 x 400g tin of good quality plum tomatoes; optional: extra virgin olive oil

With garlic & olive oil

Vegetarian Vegan Dairy-free

10 mins

Not Too Tricky

serves 2

About the recipe

This easy pasta sauce will cook in about the same time it takes to cook some dried pasta in boiling salted water – quick and easy.

nutrition per serving

Calories

18%

Fat

11%

Saturates

Sugars

11%

Salt

Protein

23%

Carbs

24%

Fibre

of an adult’s reference intake

Recipe From

Jamie: Keep Cooking and Carry On

By Jamie Oliver

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Ingredients

2 cloves of garlic

olive oil

1 x 400g tin of good quality plum tomatoes

optional: extra virgin olive oil

Top Tip

These amounts serve 2, but are easy to scale up or down. Remember you want about 75g of dried pasta per person – use whatever shape you’ve got.

Method

Peel and finely slice the garlic, then place in a non-stick frying pan on a medium heat with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Stir regularly until lightly golden.
Pour in the tomatoes, either scrunching them through your hands, or breaking them up with a wooden spoon. Let it simmer on a low heat until your pasta is cooked.
Use tongs to drag the pasta straight into the sauce, letting a little starchy cooking water go with it.
Toss well over the heat, then serve. I like to finish with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

Add any of the below to the sauce as it cooks:

1. Finely chopped or sliced fresh chilli or a pinch of dried chilli flakes.
2. A few baby capers.
3. A pinch of dried herbs, such as oregano.
4. A few olives, squashed and destoned.

Tags

Tomato Vegetable Gravy & sauces Vegetarian Vegan Dairy-free Keep Cooking and Carry On Pasta Italian-style

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