One of my absolute favourite pasta supper has to be my mushy
roast garlic and cherry tomato pasta which is
very, very simple to make.
perfect for all you Food Tube fans, all you need is a roasting pan to make the sauce and it's great
for cutting down on the washing up.
Good bit of pasta going in here, a good handful like this. Going straight into the pan
Going straight into the pot
Now the key with pasta like this a beautiful little pasta sauce
What I have is some cherry tomatoes here
So just place them in there
And we're going to do all of these, just open faced
and straight into our pan.
And, if this happens
just turning your heat
You don't want pasta water all over your hob
Give it a quick stir and everything will be calm again. Calmness will be restored.
I have some red onions here and some garlic
Now with these red onions you wanted them to keep their shape when they roast up.
So what you need to do is just take off the top
and then peel off the edges of them
and the root that we've allowed to be there is going to hold this fully
together. So all I'm doing now is cutting them into like six of
those. So toss them straight in
and the same with these one's as well
Now grab some garlic, take off the top and what you are left with are these beautiful
little garlic cloves, which when they go into the oven they will roast off amd
sweet and beautiful so
that goes in alongside the rest of our ingredients
Now a bit of balsamic vinegar
about a tablespoon going in here and then some good quality olive oil
going in here as well. A good few glugs, maybe a tablespoon and a bit, some black
pepper
A good bit of salt.
and then just give it a big
kind of a swivel. Get the hips in, get going and get them all tossed through
and this goes straight into your oven about two hundred degrees Celsius and that's four hundred
degrees fahrenheit
What happens when it comes out
you get these beautiful tomatoes which have become dark, deep and delicious
and the best thing of all is those little garlic cloves have become really
mushy and squeegee and it's exactly that which is gonna make this pasta
beautiful.
Speaking of pasta i think, I think this done. So i will just drain it over by the sink.
And just place it straight back in, saving a bit of that water in there. Bring that over.
So now, our pasta's cooked we just need to sort out our sauce. So using a little bit of water,
we're just gonna create a sauce in the base of this
You could use the pasta water which would've been the most clever thing to
do here
just sprinkled on in alongside and using a fork
what you need to do is just squidge out those little garlic cloves. And they come out
i know it looks like a lot of garlic here but what happens when you roast it
off, it becomes really sweet and it's not that really strong stringent garlic that
you would normally eat.
So get that straight in their keep squidging and pressing until it all mixes
through. Now if this is the sort of thing that you love to cook, i want to hear
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Once that's mushed down and everything's nicely combined, I'm going to tumble the pasta
straight back in here, mix through and it's a simple, simple supper
really really tasty and full of flavor at this point season it up with a little
more sea salt
And then some black pepper
i actually, while I'm mixing through like to add a little bit of parmesan in
here. it just helps come together and while we're at it, we might as well go the
extra mile a few sprigs
of basil leaves, I'll just tear them
like this
Straight in amongst this, and the heat of the pasta will just make it really, really tender
And that, ladies and gentlemen
is one of my favorite little pasta dishes. Mushy, roast garlic and cherry tomato pasta
Seriously, you've got to try it.