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Pasta Simple Recipe


Pasta Simple Recipe
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This is a staple in our house. It's also a great starting point to do variations on. It's a quick pasta recipe without rolling out your own - which we tend to do. Just a quick trip out to the garden to snip some basil and it's perfect. The steam from... More

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Ingredients
  • 1/2 lb pasta shells (I always make the full pound and reserve 1/2 for a cold pasta salad for lunch the next day)
  • 2 fresh tomatoes - chopped
  • 1/2 lemon - squeezed
  • 1/2 red onion - finely sliced
  • 1 shallot - minced
  • 3 cloves fresh garlic - pressed
  • 6-8 large leaves of basil - julienned
  • reserve pasta water -1/4 cup or so
  • 3 Tbsp olive oil
  • 3 Tbsp butter
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • fresh shaves of Parmigiano-Reggiano
  • variations - can roast tomatoes and garlic
  • - can saute onions, shallot and garlic

Directions
  1. Cook pasta according to recipe for al dente on past box
  2. Drain, while reserving some pasta water for sauce
  3. add 3 Tbsp olive oil
  4. add 3 Tbsp buitter
  5. add onions, shallot and garlic
  6. stir in chopped fresh tomatoes
  7. add sqeeze of lemon - to taste (about 1/2 lemon for me)
  8. season with salt and pepper
  9. plate and top with shavings of fresh Parmigiano-Reggiano

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Mmm-mmmm, does that sound yummy!!


Hope you don't mind, but I added your recipe to a new group I started. Sounds great, too!


Quick and easy...I love it...I usually have the angel hair with fresh pressed garlic, cracked black pepper, anchovy paste, evoo, and sometimes I add scallions....now this is a staple in my home as well...MMMMMmm....add some crusty french bread and bon appetite.....


Great .... and simple..


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