Pasta with fresh tomato sauce and mozzarella
An easy summer pasta dish using fresh tomatoes and mozzarella.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 12 mins
- Total Time: 22 minutes
- Yield: 2 to 4 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 cups of dried pasta – I used penne
- 1 veggie bouillon cube
- 3 large tomatoes or 6 medium tomatoes – about 2 to 2 1/2 cups of chopped tomatoes
- 1/2 tsp of salt
- 1 tbs olive oil
- 6 cloves of garlic – minced
- 2 oz of fresh mozzarella – diced
- 3 tbs butter
- 6 twists of black pepper from a pepper mill
- 1 large handful of basil – about 15 leaves – minced
Instructions
- Chop tomatoes into a medium dice. Add 1/2 tsp of salt and half of the minced basil to the diced tomatoes. Stir to combine and let it sit as you prep the other ingredients and bring the water to a boil.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add pasta and bouillon. Cook pasta according to package instructions.
- While the pasta is cooking, heat a large sauté pan over medium high heat. Add the olive oil to the pan. Next add the minced garlic and stir the garlic to cook for 30 seconds. Don’t let it burn.
- Using a fine mesh sieve, strain the tomatoes over the sauté pan, so the tomato juice flows directly into the sauté pan. You want to add all the tomato juice to the garlic cooking in the sauté pan. Set the tomatoes aside and cook the tomato juice over medium high heat for a minute or two until the tomato juice thickens slightly.
- Drain the pasta when ready and set to the side.
- Add the 3 tbs of butter to the tomato juice/garlic mixture in the sauté pan. Stir or swirl pan as the butter melts so it is fully blended into the sauce.
- Once all the butter has melted, turn off the heat and add the cooked pasta to the sauce in the sauté pan. Toss to combine.
- Next, add the tomatoes and black pepper to the pan and toss.
- Transfer pasta to a bowl. Add the remaining basil and diced mozzarella and stir to combine.
- Serve pasta and enjoy!