Pasta with 5-minute tomato sauce

Name: Pasta with 5-minute tomato sauce
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Serves: 4 as a starter
Ingredients: 400 g tinned chopped tomatoes; 300 g dry weight of your favourite pasta; 1 teaspoon dried sage salt and pepper; 1 teaspoon sugar; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 clove garlic, finely chopped; 1 tablespoon tomato purée

Preparation info

Serves:
4
as a starter

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
10 min

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

Sometimes you want lovely, fresh-tasting homemade food when you are on your own. This recipe is as easy to make for one as it is to make for a dozen. You can have great-tasting pasta sauce in less time than it takes to cook the pasta!

Ingredients

400 g tinned chopped tomatoes
1 tablespoon tomato purée
2

Starter
Lunch
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Put all the sauce ingredients (except the pasta) into a saucepan, stir together, turn up the heat and boil for 5 minutes. Season to taste. Alternatively, you can do this in a bowl in the microwave – cover the bowl with cling film, pierce a hole in the film and cook for 5 minutes at full power. The sauce will keep for a few days (see