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September 16, 2025
Creamy Tomato Pasta Recipe
Pink pasta! Spaghetti tossed with a creamy tomato sauce that’s completely slurp worthy, this Creamy Tomato Pasta is silky and indulgent tasting however the tomato cream sauce doesn’t even have that a lot cream in it!
Serve it as is, or use it as a base in your personal add-ins. Strive tossing by some shredded leftover Roast Chicken or Poached Chicken, or including a handful of spinach.
Creamy tomato sauce for pasta
Is it pink? Or orange?
It doesn’t sound practically as enjoyable to speak to you about an orange pasta sauce.
I’m sticking with pink.
Pink tomato cream sauce!
“This pasta with tomato cream sauce is a much less responsible solution to get your creamy pasta repair!”
Tomato cream sauce – a more healthy creamy pasta!
That is the primary recipe I’ve made for my web site after being away for nearly a month, firstly on the annual RecipeTin Household journey to Japan, adopted shortly thereafter by a visit with buddies to New Zealand.
You’ll suppose that she who sulked so mightily when she discovered her denims have been simply as cosy post-trek as they have been pre-trek could be impressed to be share some brilliant, recent salads, “goddess cleaning bowls”, be transformed to zoodles or cauliflower crust pizza.
However alas, no. She craves creamy pasta. 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
And truly, this may even be made with out cream. Cream isn’t a pantry staple for me so I typically make the Creamy Tomato Pasta sauce simply utilizing milk and including an additional dollop of butter so as to add richness.
I’ve offered the recipe plain which is how I often have it, as a result of it’s so beautiful and saucy it deserves to be twirled and slurped simply as it’s. Nonetheless, add-ins are fully attainable and I’ve offered some ideas within the recipe for the way to take action.
Do that with a recent backyard salad with a Balsamic dressing, French or Italian dressing on the facet. For those who really feel like going all out, add a facet of Higher-Than-Dominos Garlic Bread or Tacky Garlic Bread. Take pleasure in! – Johnsat x
Extra methods to get your creamy pasta repair!
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Fettucine Alfredo – additionally do this One Pot Chicken Alfredo Pasta
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Creamy Chicken and Bacon Pasta
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Creamy Garlic Shrimp/Prawn Pasta
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Creamy Solar Dried Tomato Pasta
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Baked Mac and Cheese – and take a look at the Shrimp model!
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Pasta with tomato cream sauce
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Ingredients
- 300g/10 oz spaghetti
- 2 tbsp / 30g unsalted butter
- 3 garlic cloves , minced
- ½ onion , finely chopped
- 1 cup / 250 ml tomato passata / tomato puree (Note 1)
- 3/4 cup / 185 ml heavy / thickened cream (Note 2 for subs)
- 1/2 cup / 125 ml milk , low fat
- 3/4 cup / 30g parmesan , finely freshly grated (Note 3)
- 1 tsp dried basil, or other herb of choice
- 1 tsp chicken or vegetable stock powder , or 1 bouillon cube, crumbled (Note 4)
- Finely ground pepper + salt
Instructions
- Cook pasta in a big pot of boiling water for time per packet MINUS 2 minutes. Just before draining, scoop out a mugful of pasta cooking water.
- Melt butter in large skillet over medium heat. Add garlic and onion, cook until translucent – about 2 minutes.
- Add remaining ingredients. Stir until parmesan is melted. Turn heat up slightly and simmer for 2 minutes. Adjust salt to taste.
- Add pasta. Toss for 1 to 2 minutes or until sauce thickens and is clinging to pasta instead of swimming on the base of the skillet (video shows this well). Use reserved pasta cooking water if required to thin the sauce out if it gets too thick.
- Serve immediately, garnished with more parmesan and parsley if desired.
Notes
1. Tomato Passata, known as Tomato Puree in America, is pureed strained tomatoes that is sold in tall bottles. It’s 100% tomato, no additives or flavourings. It’s smoother than crushed tomatoes and makes gorgeous thick tomato based sauces. In Australia, you’ll find it in the pasta section in supermarkets and it costs around the same as canned tomato. Passata is not the same as tomato paste which is a concentrate.
American canned Tomato Sauce (Hunts etc) is a suitable substitute, or your favourite tomato pasta sauce (use 1 cup). Canned crushed or finely diced tomato can also be used but you’ll need 1 x 400g/14oz can, add it first and cook down for 5 minutes before adding milk, cream etc.
2. The sauce thickness mostly comes from the passata so this recipe could actually be made with just milk, no cream, for a healthier alternative though you will miss the richness that cream brings to the sauce. You could also use evaporated milk, again for a healthier alternative. If you want to add richness to the sauce, add extra butter!
3. Don’t try this with store bought grated parmesan as most don’t melt properly in the sauce.
4. Stock powder brings more flavour to the sauce than just using salt. If you don’t have it, I would add an extra 1/4 – 1/2 cup parmesan.
5. ADD-IN SUGGESTIONS: Shrimp/prawns, BACON, pancetta, chicken, turkey, diced or sliced capsicum / bell peppers, mushrooms, spinach, grated zucchini. For prawns/shrimp and whole chicken pieces (breast, thigh), cook it first then take it out, cut chicken then toss back in later with pasta. For chopped chicken, bacon, pancetta and vegetables, add them when the onion is partway cooked, then proceed with recipe. Stir through delicate vegetables like baby spinach into the sauce with the pasta.
Don’t go overboard with the add-ins otherwise you might not have enough sauce!
6. Nutrition per serving, assuming 4 servings.
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