cheap family recipes
feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a month
Ingredients
- 450 g pasta
- 200 g onion chopped into little half cm dice
- 1 can tomatoes chopped finely
- 40 g tomato puree
- 10 g Garlic
- ¼ tsp chilli powder
- 70 g bacon cut into little slithers 1-2 mm x 1 cm with your kitchen scissors
- 60 ml oil
Instructions
- Fry onions, bacon and seasonings in oil then when onions are softened and beginning to go translucent, add chopped tomatoes and their juice, tomato paste, a tspn salt and cook until you have a sauce that is glossy and will coat the pasta like in the picture.
- Meanwhile, cook the pasta until al dente in a separate saucepan of salted water. Drain well
- Place the cooked pasta into the pan with the sauce, and toss it until each penne shape is coated with glossy tomatoey bacony loveliness.
- The sauce is meant to be a concentrated flavour dressing for the pasta (the Italian way) rather than an enormous blob on the top of plain pasta (the English way!)
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