Delicious and Simple Ricotta and Tomato Pasta Sauce
"I just love this recipe! Mum used to make this for us when we were kids. It's apparently a traditional Roman dish, great for vegetarians and very easy and quick to whip up, an awesome dish with a real 'rustic' feel to it! The kids will love it! It is to be served on top of steaming, hot pasta...wholemeal pasta works quite well with this recipe too! Enjoy!"
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
4-6
ingredients
- 2 cups fresh ricotta
- 1 (400 g) can crushed tomatoes
- 1 yellow onion, finely diced
- 3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons freshly grated parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon coarse ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 8 leaves fresh basil
- 1 (500 g) package pasta (spirals work well with this recipe)
directions
- Firstly, put on a large pot of salted water and bring to the boil, add pasta to water and cook until'al dente' approximately 8- 10 minutes.
- While pasta is on the go, finely dice your onion and crush your garlic.
- In a saucepan, put in the olive oil, when the oil is warm, add your garlic and onion and gently saute these until they are transparent.
- Add the ricotta to the pan, and stir through the onions and garlic well.
- At this stage, add your salt and pepper, parmesan, crushed tomatoes and tomato paste.
- Mix well and let simmer gently for 10 minutes.
- Drain pasta.
- Turn the ricotta sauce off from the heat, add your fresh basil leaves, roughly torn, into the sauce.
- Dish up some pasta into a bowl, put some of the ricotta sauce on top of the pasta, and finish off with some extra shavings of parmesan if desired.
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Reviews
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catyw - you must have done something wrong, this has been a staple in my household since my mum was a kid. We do it slightly different, we use 2 onions, 3 garlic cloves, fry them off, add 2 bottles of passata, let it cook for about 10 minutes, add the ricotta in chunks, let it cook for a bit (some ricotta will break up and lighten the sauce and some will be chunky) then finish it off with basil, parsley, salt and pepper -
Absolutely delicious. Obviously Katyw has no palate!
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Yuck. This is for kid's with ruined taste buds. The deal breaker is the 2 cups of ricotta. We threw it in the compost immediately. Wasteful and expensive. If you like pablum tho, this maybe for you! -
We all loved this recipe! I stirred all the pasta into the sauce, chopped it up some, and added 8 oz cream cheese to it. Awesome! -
This was unlike any spaghetti sauce I've ever made before. My son seemed to enjoy it, and I did too. I certainly appreciated the new twist of adding ricotta, but I only added 1 1/2 c. I probobly added a touch more olive oil than called for and used parmaigionno reggiono (sp?). My husband said he prefers the sauce without ricotta, but still liked it. Thank you for sharing.
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