Italian

Pasta al Pomodoro

Name: Pasta al Pomodoro
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 lb spaghetti; 28 oz San Marzano tomatoes; 4 garlic cloves; 1/4 cup olive oil; 1/2 cup fresh basil; 1/2 tsp salt

Marco @marco_bologna

Pasta al Pomodoro is Italian home cooking, eaten at lunch and 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.

25 min Easy Heart healthy High fiber Vegetarian Vegan Halal Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb spaghetti
28 oz San Marzano tomatoes
4 garlic cloves
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup fresh basil
1/2 tsp salt

How to cook it

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil and cook the spaghetti until al dente.
Meanwhile heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium and cook the sliced garlic until just golden, about 2 minutes.
Crush the tomatoes by hand and add them to the pan with a pinch of salt.
Simmer the sauce until slightly thickened, about 12 minutes, tearing in half the basil near the end.
Reserve a cup of pasta water, then drain the spaghetti and add it to the sauce.
Toss over the heat, loosening with pasta water until the sauce coats the strands.
Tear in the remaining basil and serve.

Watch how to cook Pasta al Pomodoro

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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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 Pasta al Pomodoro, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

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. Pasta al Pomodoro carries gluten. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pasta al Pomodoro
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
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: 450 kcal
Protein: 11 g
Carbs: 72 g
Fat: 13 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 460 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Pasta al Pomodoro takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.