Monday, 5 September 2011

Creamy Tomato pasta



I sort of made up this recipes when I bought the wrong pot of cream. I wanted to get those really yummy thickened cream, but instead I grabbed the cream cheese for cooking! So I thought why not add it to this bolognaise sauce I was making and Voila!! I think it tasted like Lasagne with out the layers and the cream it was soo good!

What you need:

500 g of mince beef
a bag of pasta (this time I used macaroni)
1 large onions
1 can of Watties Tomato and garlic
3 cloves of garlic
Salt and pepper
sugar
mix herbs
chicken stock (for extra oomph)
a chunk of Butter

Boil the pasta with a little oil and salt, I think the oil help so that the pasta won't stick together. Once the pasta is Al Dente, strain and rinse with cold water and set aside.

Heat a pan or pot or what ever you prefer to cook the meat in, as long as you make sure there is enough room to mix the pasta in. I like to use butter to cook the garlic and the onions because it smells so good!


So after the onions and the garlic are fragrant, fried the mince and add the salt and pepper, chicken stock and mix herb. When the mince is half cook, you can add the canned tomatoes and the sugar.



Cook through and then add the pasta. Simmer for a few minutes to make sure that all the taste are absorbed by the pasta.Stir in the Cream cheese just before you turn off the heat.