One-pot tomato and basil pasta

Name: One-pot tomato and basil pasta
Total time: 25 min
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: linguine 350g; cherry tomatoes 250g, halved; garlic 2 cloves, very thinly sliced; onion 1, very thinly sliced; olive oil 4 tbsp; chilli flakes a good pinch; basil 4 sprigs

25 minutes
serves 4
Easy

Pasta and sauce all cooked in one pot? Sounds mad but it works! Try Sabrina Fauda-Rôle's tomato and basil pasta recipe (taken from her book, One-Pot Pasta) tonight

August 17, 2016 at 2:43 pm

Recipe adapted from One-Pot Pasta: from pot to plate in under 30 minutes by Sabrina Fauda-Rôle (£7.99, Hardie Grant)

Ingredients

linguine 350g
cherry tomatoes 250g, halved
garlic 2 cloves, very thinly sliced
onion 1, very thinly sliced
olive oil 4 tbsp
chilli flakes a good pinch
basil 4 sprigs

Method

Step 1

Put all the ingredients into a large saucepan, in the listed order, with 1 tsp salt, a grind of black pepper and 900ml water.
Step 2

Cook for 15 minutes over a medium heat, stirring regularly until the pasta is cooked and the cooking water has reduced to a sauce.