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Creamy Tomato Pasta
with a Tomato & Mascarpone Sauce
Comfort food at its finest! Adding mascarpone and parmigiano reggiano to traditional marinara makes for a delicious pasta sauce. It’s definitely an indulgent dish, but we all deserve a treat every once in a while!
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Pasta, Vegetarian
Ingredients
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- extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 sweet onion, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tbsps double concentrated tomato purée
- 2 x 400 g tin of good-quality crushed tomatoes
- 1 tsp sugar, optional
- 200 g mascarpone
- 60 g parmigiano reggiano
- 600 g dried pasta
Instructions
- Heat a splash of extra-virgin olive oil in a saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Add the onion and garlic and season with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper. Cook, stirring frequently, until softened, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Turn the heat up to medium-high. Add the tomato purée and cook, stirring constantly, until it begins to darken, 2 to 3 minutes.
- Add the tinned tomatoes and sugar, if using. Fill 1 tin with water and add it to the sauce.
- Season with sea salt and freshly-ground black pepper and stir to combine. Bring the sauce to a simmer. Cover, reduce the heat to low and simmer gently for 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
- Add the mascarpone and stir to combine. Simmer, covered, for 5 minutes.
- Add the parmigiano reggiano and fresh basil and remove the saucepan from the heat. Adjust seasoning, to taste.
- To serve: cook your pasta in salted boiling water. Transfer the cooked pasta the sauce. Add a splash of the pasta cooking water and toss until the sauce nicely coats the pasta. Enjoy!
Watery and flavorless. I followed this recipe to the T. Next time I will double the garlic and add chili flakes or SOMETHING to give it any flavor at all.
I’m so sorry it wasn’t to your taste. We make this all the time and love it but I suppose food is subjective 🙂
LOVE this recipe – I definitely find the quality of the tomatoes makes a huge difference. Really great comfort food when done with gnocchi ????
Thanks Joy! The tomato quality definitely makes a huge difference!