If you want to make a pasta that is not only very tasty, but also healthy, make Tomato Basil Pasta according to Vookestro's recipe.
This is a pasta that you can prepare in just 15 minutes. The ingredients in this pasta blend perfectly with each other in their taste. This is a pasta that will delight everyone with its taste, and children will especially like it.
Make more because there will definitely be people wanting extra pasta!
You might also like these pasta recipes:
- Creamy Smoked Bacon Pasta
- Creamy Avocado And Spinach Pasta
- Pasta With Ground Beef And Parmesan Cheese
How to make Tomato Basil Pasta at home?
In this recipe, we make 1 portion of tomato basil pasta, so if you want to make more than 1 portion, use the appropriate amount of ingredients.
Fill a medium pot with some water. Add enough water to make it 4 times the volume of the pasta.
We add about 1/4 cup of water.
Place the pot on a medium-hot stovetop.
Add some salt (about 1/2 tsp) and some olive oil (about 2-3 tbsp) to the pot. Olive oil is needed so that the pasta does not stick together during cooking.
When the water in the pot heats up, add the pasta. If you are using spaghetti-type pasta, there is no need to break it. The pasta will submerge itself in the water when it softens without boiling.
Cook the pasta for about 12-14 minutes on medium heat.
While the pasta is cooking, take a medium-sized skillet and place it on a medium-hot stovetop. Add a few tbsp of olive oil to the pan.
When the oil is hot in the pan, squeeze in 2 cloves of garlic. Also chop half a small white onion and add to the pan.
Take a handful of cherry tomatoes. Wash the tomatoes well under hot water and rinse under cold water.
Place the tomatoes on a cutting board and cut them in half.
Add the chopped tomatoes to the pan.
Sprinkle some freshly ground black pepper and a little salt over the tomatoes in the pan.
Mix everything well in the pan.
While the pasta is cooking and the tomatoes are simmering in the pan, grab a handful of fresh basil. Wash the basil well under hot water and rinse under cold water.
Place the basil on a cutting board and chop well with a knife.
Add the chopped basil to the pan and mix well with the other ingredients.
Meanwhile, the pasta should be cooked. Remove the pasta from the pot, drain and place in a separate container.
Pour a handful of hard cheese over the pasta and mix everything well.
Also, remove the pan from the stove. Place the tomatoes with the rest of the ingredients in the pan on top of the pasta.
Sprinkle the tomato and basil pasta with hard cheese again before serving.
Here we have prepared a particularly simple but very tasty dish. It was simple, wasn't it?
Enjoy!
Watch the tomato basil pasta recipe in video format:
Tomato Basil Pasta ingredients (1 portion):
- Pasta (1 handful)
- Olive oil (4-5 tbsp)
- Onion (1/2)
- Garlic (2 cloves)
- Salt
- Black pepper
- Fresh basil (1 handful)
- Cherry tomatoes (1 handful)
- Parmesan cheese (1/2 handful)
Shortened tomato basil pasta recipe:
- Add the pasta to the pot to cook
- Squeeze 2 garlic cloves into a pan with oil and add 1/2 white onion
- Add a handful of halved cherry tomatoes to the pan
- Add a handful of chopped basil to the pan, cook for a few minutes
- Add 1/2 handful of hard cheese to the cooked pasta, mix with the pasta
- Place the ingredients from the pan on top of the pasta
- Pour hard cheese over the pasta again
- Enjoy!
When making tomato basil pasta, you may have the following questions:
How to spice up a tomato basil pasta sauce?
To make the tomato basil pasta sauce tastier, we sprinkle salt and freshly ground black pepper on the tomatoes. We also use Parmesan cheese, which gives pasta dishes additional flavor and creaminess.
At what point do you add basil to pasta sauce?
Basil can be used both cooked and raw. In this dish, we use roasted basil, so we add it to the pan with the other ingredients. However, you can eat fresh basil if you want. Then you should add them to the pasta just before serving.
How do Italians use basil?
Italians use basil in various dishes. Basil is one of the most popular herbs Italians use in cooking. Basil is used both in pasta, toast and sandwiches, to flavor soups and other dishes.
Should basil be washed before using?
Whether you need to wash basil before using it depends on where you got the basil. If you have grown your own basil and you are sure that there are no chemicals on it, you can use unwashed basil. However, if you bought basil at the store or know that chemicals were used to grow it, you must wash it before using it in cooking.
Should you chop basil for tomato sauce?
If basil is used as a main ingredient in a dish, we usually chop it. If the basil is used as a decoration of the dish, then we do not chop the basil before putting it on the food.
Is raw basil toxic?
Raw basil is not toxic and can be eaten. Italians usually do not boil or fry basil and eat it raw.
