Garlicky tomato pasta
Use your cupboard ingredients for a vegetarian treat for two
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Cook:30 mins
- Serves 2
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
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kcal 617
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fat 19g
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saturates 3g
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carbs 102g
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sugars 0g
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fibre 6g
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protein 16g
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salt 0.1g
Ingredients
- 8 small new potatoes, quartered, or a large baking potato peeled and cut into small chunks
- 200g pasta shells (about 2 large handfuls)
- 4 medium tomatoes, the riper the better
- 3 tbsp good quality olive oil
- 1 fat clove of garlic, finely chopped or crushed
- a pinch of crushed chillies or chilli powder
- grated cheese, whatever you have, to serve
Method
Pour a boiled kettleful of water into a medium pan, salt the water and bring it back to the boil over a highish heat. Tip the potatoes into the water and boil for 5 minutes. Tip the pasta into the same water, give it a stir and continue to boil everything for about 10 minutes or until the pasta and potatoes feel soft when prodded with a fork.
While the pasta is cooking, chop the tomatoes into chunky pieces, then chop them a little bit more, as you would for a salsa. Scrape the tomatoes and their juice off the board into a bowl. Season generously with salt and pepper and mix in the olive oil, garlic and crushed chilli until it’s all amalgamated.
When the pasta and potatoes are cooked, toss them in the bowl with the tomato sauce until evenly coated. Divide the pasta between two bowls and serve with a sprinkling of grated cheese.
