If you’re after a quick and straightforward meal, pasta and sauce is a reliable choice. In roughly 10 minutes you can have a tasty dish prepared, and with nearly limitless variations available, it’s easy to create something that appeals to everyone. While using a ready-made sauce purchased from a shop is undoubtedly convenient, you can prepare your own with minimal effort and just a few ingredients.
Kathryn Bruton has amassed more than 15,000 followers on TikTok, where she frequently shares simple recipes you can recreate at home and recently posted an effortless method for making pasta sauce at home that rivals, if not surpasses, anything you’d purchase from a shop. It requires only a handful of ingredients and is so straightforward that even a complete beginner can prepare it with ease, reports the Mirror.
It’s easy and it takes just a few minutes (stock image) (Image: Getty Images)
How to make Kathryn’s easy pasta sauce
“Stop buying shop bought pasta sauces,” she said. “Save your money for something else and do this instead.”
Demonstrating the four ingredients required, Kathryn showed herself selecting a tin of chopped tomatoes, a packet of frozen chopped basil and another of frozen chopped garlic, along with a small packet of parmesan – plus some pasta.
Back in her kitchen, she said: “This shines a light on how amazing a tin of tomatoes can be. I make this pasta sauce all the time.
“We’re gonna start with olive oil, quite a lot, maybe three tablespoons. To that, we’re going to (add) frozen garlic, about a tablespoon. Once you see the garlic just about to turn golden, add the tined tomatoes. Quarter-fill the tin with water and add that to the pan.
“Going to add some grated Parmesan. This is going to add lots of flavour and it’s going to make your sauce really creamy. And then, you can use fresh basil, but this is a store cupboard sauce, we’re using ingredients from our store cupboard. so I’m gonna use frozen, about a tablespoon.
“Simmer it for about five minutes. Alright, let’s season it with salt and pepper. I’m gonna leave it chunky, but at this point you can blitz it if you prefer a smooth sauce.”
Kathryn noted that the recipe makes two portions, decanting half into a container to set aside for another time. She then combined the cooked pasta with the sauce, adding a splash of the reserved cooking water before stirring everything together.
“It’s the best way to finish off a pasta,” she said. “Tell me that doesn’t look like something you wouldn’t get in an Italian restaurant? And it’s made from a budget tin of tomatoes.”
Ingredients
1 tbsp frozen garlic, or to fresh cloves, finely chopped
1tbsp frozen basil, or leaves from three sprigs of fresh basil
400g tin of chopped tomatoes
20g parmesan, grated plus extra to garnish
reserved cooking water from pasta
Method
Heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan and sauté the garlic for about one minute, or until it starts to turn golden
Add the tinned tomatoes, then quarter-fill the tin with water and add to the pan
Stir in the grated parmesan and basil
Simmer over a high heat for about five minutes or until it has reduced a little and thickened
Season with salt and pepper
Add the cooked pasta to the sauce along with a splash of the cooking water, and stir until the sauce coats the pasts. Serve garnished with extra parmesan
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