Red Pasta

Pasta Rossa

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Authentic Pasta Book

By Fred Plotkin

Published 1989

  • About

This is often referred to as tomato pasta, but as the ingredients below suggest, this is not an accurate appellation. I believe that green pasta can stand on its merits, but other colored pasta is a little pretentious. The flavor of tomato fares much better in sauce than it does in pasta. If you put a lot of tomato flavor into the flour, it will create a strong and, in my view, unappetizing taste. Since red pasta is aesthetically pleasing, especially when combined with green and yellow past