This creamy tomato pasta is the perfect one-pot pasta dinner. Fresh tomatoes, a drop of cream (so it's still healthy) and fresh spinach make this the perfect easy pasta dinner. This sauce is a quick and fresh sauce that you'll make over and over again. And the whole recipe is made using only ingredients from Aldi UK. We ♥ One-Pot Dinners!

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Creamy One-Pot Tomato Pasta
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Creamy Tomato Sauce

This creamy sauce could not be easier. It uses fresh tomatoes. But if you only have tinned, then, by all means, use tinned. See the recipe notes about tinned tomatoes.

A couple of pointers here.

You do not need to deseed the fresh tomatoes. They essentially disappear into the sauce.
If you don't have vegetable stock cubes you can use, chicken, or even water in a pinch. Just be sure to check the seasoning.
You can use milk instead of cream and add some butter to keep it rich and creamy.
You can use red onion instead of yellow or brown onion with no problem what so ever.

Cooking one-pot pasta

When you make a one-pot pasta your life just gets so much easier. Everything cooks in one pot, sauce, pasta and any veggies that you're using.

The ratio you want to use for pretty much all one-pot pasta is 750ml of liquid to 250g pasta.
Keep a lid on the pasta while you cook it so that you don't lose any of the liquid. If your pasta is getting a little low on liquid add in water 100ml at a time.
If you've added too much liquid and your pasta is a little too saucy, remove the lid and boil away the liquid.

The Add-Ins for Creamy Tomato Pasta

This pasta can really take a lot of extras, but it's also perfect when it's left pretty plain with just some spinach. If you've got picky eaters, then you can absolutely skip the spinach if you need to.

Chicken
Turkey
Bell Peppers
Prawns/Shrimp
Sweet Corn (frozen)
Peas
Mushrooms
Snow Peas
Parmesan
Mozzarella

PS. This pasta keeps in the fridge and re-heats like a dream. Just know that you will need to add some more water to the pan when you heat it up, as the noodles soak up some of the sauce.

One-pot pasta we ♥ you so much!

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Tools used to make this Creamy Tomato Pasta

Stainless Steel Skillet
Microplane (for grating garlic)
Measuring jug for liquid

Creamy Tomato Pasta

This creamy tomato pasta is the perfect one-pot pasta dinner. Fresh tomatoes, a drop of cream (so it's still healthy) and fresh spinach make this the perfect easy pasta dinner. This recipe is made using only ingredients from Aldi UK. We ♥ One-Pot Dinners!

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Course: One Pot

Cuisine: Italian

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 15

Servings: Servings

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Author: Deborah Rainford

Ingredients

500 g (3 ⅙ cups) fresh tomatoes, chopped (perfect for using up leftover tomatoes in the fridge)
2 tablespoons (2 tablespoons) olive oil
3 cloves (3 cloves) garlic, minced or grated
1 (1) red onion, finely chopped
500 ml (2 cups) chicken or vegetable stock, use a stock cube
250 g (1 cups) uncooked spaghetti
150 ml (5 floz) double cream
½ (½) bunch basil
Optional extras
200 g (6 ⅓ cups) bag spinach
cooked chicken
prawns*see notes
200 g (1 ¼ cups) sweetcorn, fresh or frozen

Instructions

In a medium high sided skillet heat the olive oil for 2 minutes. Add the onion and garlic and gently sauté until they are soft, fragrant and translucent. Add the chopped tomatoes and cook until the tomatoes are just starting to caramelise around the skin
Pour the stock into the pot and add the pasta. Cook for about 10 minutes or until the pasta is cooked. If using prawns or sweetcorn, add them at the 8 minute mark so they don’t overcook.
Stir in the double cream, fresh basil and spinach if using and leave to stand for a couple of minutes to let the spinach wilt.

Notes

If you're adding in the prawns or shrimp, be sure to only add them in the last couple of minutes, so as not to over cook them.

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