Red Sauce Pasta with chef Anna Tasca Lanza on Cooking table

 

Red Sauce Pasta

Chef	:	Chef Anna Tasca Lanza, The ITC Hotel Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi
Recipe Servings	:	2
Recipe Cook Time	:	1 hour
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Pasta served with a simple, slow cooked tomato sauce in the authentic Italian way.

Ingredients

• For the Tomato Sauce
  
  5-6 tomatoes - diced
  
  1 garlic clove
  
  1 onion
  
  1/2 cup water
  
  1 bay leaf
  
  1/2 tsp sugar
  
  4-5 basil leaves
  
  1 Tbsp onions - chopped
  
  1/2 Tbsp chopped garlic
  
  Salt - to taste
  
  Oil - to saute
  
  
  For the Pasta
  
  110 gm pasta
  
  3 cups water or as required by the pasta to boil
  
  Pinch of salt

Method

Cook the tomatoes in a pan.

Add the clove of garlic, onion and bay leaf to it.

Add water and then season with salt and sugar.

Cover and let the tomatoes boil.

Cool and then grind to a puree.

Now in a separate pan, heat oil and add chopped onions and chopped garlic.

Add the tomato puree. Cook till its reduces to half.

Add basil leaves and keep aside.

For pasta

Boil water with salt.

Add the pasta to it and let it boil. Drain when done

Transfer in a serving dish and serve with the tomato sauce.