pasta tomato sauce

[NenMaster]

anyone got a really good pasta tomato sauce recipe

[Joel]

I just get 2 tins of chopped tomato's, cook down them to thicken the juices (a touch of cornflour helps this too), add some basil, and i usually add some tobasco/wouster sauce for a bit of kick, bit of salt and pepper, and there you go

[snedger]

Hello
Rather than do a serious sauce, with my pasta I like to just add a bit of colour.
I dry off the drained pasta in the saucepan on the switched off hot plate (keep the pasta moving or it will stick and burn). Add some passata or tom puree, a generous squirt of Heinz tom ketch, some garlic powder or puree, black pepper and a splurp of olive oil. Just mix it up so that the anaemic looking pasta is tinted. Adds a small amount of flavour that shouldn't overwhelm whatever the pasta is to accompany.
Cheers
snedger

[NenMaster]

ok, ill try them out, cheers

[redpiggy]

Make sure you use really flavoursome tomatoes

In summer find someone who grows them and befriend them In winter buy canned tomatoes.

My Dad grows his own and it makes the simplest sauce taste fab

I usually skin and chop them (you can remove seeds too if u like ) and cook them down on the hob.

i like to add either some basil or maybe some dried mushrooms for some flavour and a dash of olive oil. Season as you like it.

if u cook it down till its really thick you can also use it on pizzas

[Ferral]

Right !

Biggish tin of the peeled plum tomatoes, touch of garlic (puree or crushed fresh, whatever you want to use) some finely chopped basil and add some butter, small splash of wouster sauce and tomato ketchup then heat up in a pan, once red hot and butter has melted get a hand blender and blitz it down till smooth (doesnt have to be 100% smooth).

There ya go, instant pasta sauce which should be quite thick !

Also if you want with this mixture, add a little cream to thin it down and you will have a rather nice cream of tomato soup !

This is actually the mixture we use at work for all the tomato sauce based pasta dishes, it also doubles as the soup mix !

[rolph]

Not a tomato recipe. but a friend once told me his favourite quick late night pasta snack was to cook the pasta as normal. Then put in a sieve. Heat up a frying pan, put in a generous quantity of olive oil, throw in a couple of whole garlic cloves (peeled). Allow the garlic flavour to permeate the oil. Turn down the heat and throw in the pasta and stir around. There you go.