Roasted Tomato Pasta Sauce

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Roasted Tomato Pasta Sauce

 

I love pasta. If it were up to me and I could eat as much as I want without the worry of carbs, I would eat pasta at least 3-4 times a week.

For me the secret to good pasta lies in its sauce. Today I am sharing one of my favorite ways to prepare pasta/pizza sauce from scratch. I have quite a few tried and tested recipes. For a meat based sauce I use my dad’s spaghetti sauce recipe. When I have cherry tomatoes, this Marco Pierre’s pasta sauce recipe is what I make. But on most days when I make pasta sauce from scratch I use this recipe that I am sharing today.

The recipe is easy but takes some time to come together. It isn’t active cooking time, since the oven does most of the work. Slow roasting the tomatoes releases the sweet juices in them and imparts a lovely flavor. Roasting a red bell pepper along with the tomatoes gives the final sauce that lovely red color you see in store bought sauces, without adding any canned tomatoes to the sauce. And to it, if you add roasted garlic, the sauce becomes absolute perfection in terms of flavor.

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Orzo with Chicken and Vegetables

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Orzo with chicken and vegetables

Orzo with chicken and vegetables

When I went to Vancouver with my mom in March, we stayed with my aunt’s family. My aunt’s sister-in-law is a really good cook and one day she made this orzo pasta with vegetables for us. It sounded so simple to make and tasted so good that I made a mental note to recreate the recipe when I get back. After making it for the first time last week I knew I had to make it again so that I can share the recipe as soon as possible with all of you.

Since most sauce-less pasta dishes with vegetables end up being called a salad, I don’t know if this too should be called that. Whether you call it a salad or not, its still plenty good and fresh and light for summer time meals. You could skip the chicken and the butter and make this vegan/vegetarian, if you like. I serve it as a main dish and add chicken in with the veggies, but you could make it just with the vegetables and orzo with grilled chicken or fish served on the side.

I did my first snapchat recipe story today (forgive me if that’s not what its called, I am still learning). Thanks to Asha from Food, Fashion and Party (love her blog) who has been motivating me to start snapping, I finally did today. I am still fairly new with it, but in case you want to follow you can add me @theNovHousewife and see the behind the scenes of making this orzo with chicken and vegetables on Snapchat.

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Quick and easy Pasta Sauce Recipe

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Quick and Easy Pasta Sauce Recipe | The Novice Housewife

 

I have a very easy roasted tomato pasta sauce recipe which I love but today I am not sharing that. I saw this recipe for pasta sauce on one of Masterchef Australia’s episodes. The way Marco Pierre White talks about his go-to pasta sauce recipe in the Masterchef episode makes you want to stop everything and make that pasta sauce. I finally got to try the recipe and it did not disappoint at all.

Its a very basic, no frills recipe that uses a combination of fresh cherry tomatoes and canned tomatoes, which is what gives the red color to the pasta sauce.

Marco in the masterclass explains its difficult to get the red color in pasta sauce by just using fresh tomatoes and thats why his recipe calls for both- fresh and canned. The flavors for this sauce are simple but fresh and the dish does not require much active time in the kitchen to put together.

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