Ideally I'd like to make and eat lunches with lots of raw salad veges, beans and so on, but on a cold and wet day it's nice to do something hot but easy using only three ingredients. This is as simple as:
1) Cook wholemeal penne
2) Smash, peel then roughly chop some garlic (I do one clove per person, but we are garlic fiends)
3) Sauté the garlic using a little water to prevent browning
4) Add passata to garlic - I used exactly one "splodge", which I'd estimate at 1 cup for three of us
5) Simmer tomato sauce until pasta is ready
6) Drain pasta and add sauce to it
Done. This is in the Italian style of just enough sauce to "coat" the pasta, rather than drown it. Very easy to do and best of all it passes the toddler test, with lil VM launching into it with gusto. The passata has some salt, but not as bad as pre-prepared pasta sauces.
Your making my tummy grumble!!
ReplyDeleteGood! Forgot to mention - I found the transition to wholemeal pasta a bit tough, but for some reason penne is heaps nicer than spaghetti. Not much different to the non-wholemeal stuff. It's worth the switch - wholemeal is more nutritious and has 3x the fibre, meaning less blood sugar swings and protection against all sorts of diseases.
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