Please share your pasta sauce recipes!

[italy93]

I'm trying to cut down on the takeaways and eat more homemade meals! Would love to see all your pasta sauce recipes, the simpler the better

I’ve downloaded the BBC goodfood app and it’s made my life a lot easier- loads of recipes on there!

Jamie Oliver has some great ones on his website.

I like to cook sausages, chop them up, fry them and add to a basic tomato sauce. Add spinach, red pepper and chilli.

1. Fry pancetta (or bacon lardons), garlic, leeks and a small onion in lurpack until cooked, browned and soft. Add a large glass of white wine, and a good glug of double cream. Season with salt, pepper and fresh parsley. Serve with tagliatelle.

2. finely chop courgette, red onion, mushrooms, garlic and fry until soft and browned. Sprinkle a generous amount of Paprika, salt, pepper and garlic powder Add chopped up pepperoni and two spoonfuls of red pesto. Heat through and serve over pasta. We mix it all up and serve from a big bowl. Delicious cold too.

3. classic spag bol: fry finely chopped red onion and when softened add 500g mince and brown for 10 min. Sometimes, I add chopped celery and peppers at this point too depending on how healthy I'm feeling. Add 200g chopped mushrooms, 3 or 4 finely chopped cloves of garlic and cook for another 5/10 minutes. Add 200g tin of chopped tomatoes, a crushed beef stock cube and a glass of red wine. Generous salt and pepper then leave to simmer on medium heat for 20-30 min. The longer it simmers the better. X

Puttanesca is my favourite.

Anchovies (use the oil from the tin) and fry with garlic, capers, olives, black pepper and chilli flakes. The anchovies will disintegrate.

Add in tin of toms or passata, cook on low until the sauce becomes really thick. Mix with spaghetti. It's my ultimate comfort food.

@supercee one of our favourites too. We also add sliced blavk olives and King prawns. Absolutely delicious x

Half an onion diced, heat in olive oil until softened, add can of chopped tomatoes, cook to reduce the liquid a bit, add half a tub of mascapone = creamy tomato sauce.
Add roasted veg and capers to serve.

My favourite is arabiatta
Fry chilli and garlic, add tomato paste, dash of red wine and balsamic vinegar (let that cook off for 30 seconds. Add a tin of chopped tomato and let it cook and reduce over a low heat for about 35/40 mins

Fry onions. Remove from pan. Fry mushrooms. Put all together in pan again and add a splash of white wine plus a load of garlic and herb cream cheese. Thin it down with milk. Add chopped baby spinach leaves just before dishing up.

Dice onion and courgettes. Cook in butter with chopped red chilli. Lots of black pepper. Shove over pasta with a load of Parmesan - so nice - much better than it sounds.

There's a good mums net one in the go bananas book.

Alison Roman’s Caramelised Shallot Pasta from the New York Times. The recipe itself may be behind the paywall but there is a YouTube video. If I can recall it takes 6 sliced shallots, olive oil, 4 cloves of finely sliced garlic, a tin of anchovies, some red chilli pepper flakes, a (whole) tube of tomato paste/purée, pasta, a clove of chopped garlic and fresh parsley. Sooo good!

Heat olive oil and a little butter in a heavy bottomed pan.

Dice a medium onion and sauté.

Add a couple of of crushed garlic cloves into the mix once onions are translucent and starting to turn golden.

Mix and allow to cook for a minute.

Add in two tins of tomatoes

Add in some chilli flakes (amount depending on how you like chilli) a little sugar, a dash of balsamic vinegar and tsp of dried origano, and fresh basil leaves.

Mix and leave to cook on medium low flame till the tomatoes are all mushy and cooked down and have lost the raw taste.

Season to taste once cooked.

If you prefer a smooth paste you can use a hand blender to purée the lot.

Add to pasta.

I have a veggie one which is quite versatile - you can have it blitzed as pasta sauce, leave it a bit chunkier and have as soup, really blitz it down smooth and use it as E.g. a hidden veg sauce for pizza/lasagne etc.

Heat oil in a pan. Add chopped/crushed garlic. Then add about 3-400g of chopped butternut squash. 3 medium carrots, chopped small. A good sized courgette (or 2 smaller ones). A pepper (any colour is fine, but yellow/orange/red work slightly better). Then either 2 cans of chopped tomatoes or a jar of passata. This makes 2 lots of 4 meals for my family (me, teen who eats more than me, and 2 average child portions) - I always cook double and freeze one portion.

I grate/blitz down all the veg before adding, and then leave as is for a pasta sauce. If children are fussy about veg, blitz it to smooth and use either on pasta or as a base for lasagne/bolognaise. I’ve eaten leftovers as soup with some good crusty bread.

Oven roast on high chopped pepper courgette onion Carrott until looking charred then blend with tinned tomatoes, Tom puree Italian herbs and a tspoon of sugar- season with salt and pepper. I use this in oven pasta bakes too and you can add some cream or mascapone if you want a creamy version. Can add chilli if you like heat.

Episode 2 I think of Jamie's keep cooking. He did 3 really good ones.
I'm really enjoying this series!