Italian
Creamy Tomato Penne
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Creamy Tomato Penne is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil for the penne.
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Melt the butter with the olive oil in a skillet and cook the onion until soft, about 5 minutes, then add the garlic and red pepper flakes for 1 minute.
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Stir in the tomato paste, then the crushed tomatoes, and simmer 12 minutes.
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Pour in the cream and warm gently until the sauce turns rosy.
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Cook the penne until al dente and reserve a cup of pasta water before draining.
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Toss the pasta with the sauce and parmesan, loosening with pasta water as needed.
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Finish with basil and serve.
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Serve it with
A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Creamy Tomato Penne, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Creamy Tomato Penne carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Cacciatore |
| Gluten | Yes | Butternut Squash Risotto |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 570 kcal
- Protein
- 16 g
- Carbs
- 72 g
- Fat
- 24 g
- Fiber
- 5 g
- Sugar
- 5 g
- Sodium
- 560 mg
- Saturated fat
- 12 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Creamy Tomato Penne takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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