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spicy tomato sauce & pasta
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Servings: 4 servings
Cost per portion 25p
Calories: 650.87kcal
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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!)
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
pasta amatriciana
Amount per Serving
Calories
650.87
% Daily Value*
Fat
23.75
g
37
%
Saturated Fat
3.77
g
24
%
Cholesterol
11.55
mg
4
%
Sodium
129.89
mg
6
%
Potassium
412.45
mg
12
%
Carbohydrates
90.7
g
30
%
Fiber
4.64
g
19
%
Sugar
5.65
g
6
%
Protein
17.77
g
36
%
Vitamin A
88.06
IU
2
%
Vitamin C
5.54
mg
7
%
Calcium
39.65
mg
4
%
Iron
1.82
mg
10
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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