WEEKEND
Bashing tomatoes, chilli, sugar and shallots together in
a pestle and mortar helps to bring out the flavours for a
delicious no-cook pasta sauce. Make it more indulgent with
creamy burrata cheese
Meat
Spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce
Cooking time
Prep:5 mins
Easy
Servings Serves 2
Cook:10 mins
Ingredients
200g spaghetti or linguine
1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
2 shallots, finely chopped
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
zest 1 lemon
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
2 tsp caster sugar
300g tomatoes, diced
125g ball mozzarella or
burrata (see tip, below), torn into pieces
handful basil leaves, torn, to serve
Method
1. Cook the pasta following pack instructions. Meanwhile,
put the chilli, shallots, oil, lemon zest, vinegar, sugar and
tomatoes into a big mortar. If yours isn’t big enough, put
it all in a bowl and just use the pestle in that. Add a good
Easy Friday night
amount of sea salt and freshly ground black pepper and
bash everything together.
2. Drain the pasta and toss together with the tomato
mixture and mozzarella. Scatter over the basil and serve
Food heaven
immediately.
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