I had a really good rigatoni putanesca today. I don’t often make pasta at home for some reason and I’d like to change that.
What are your favorite pasta sauces? Ones that fly under the radar, ones that are quick any easy when you don’t really feel like cooking, ones that you make to impress a date… let’s hear em all!
This takes me less time than to boil the pasta:
Half an onion, minced Knob of butter 1 L of a good passata Tablespoon of chicken bouillon powder Olive oil to taste Salt, pepper, chili flakes to taste
Sauté the onion in butter until translucent. Add in the passata and bouillon powder. Add olive oil and seasonings to taste. That’s it.
The chicken bouillon powder is something I have not seen used in a pasta sauce before. It sounds interesting!
The recipe is sort of a mishmash of influences. It derives from an ancestral recipe, but the use of butter comes from Marcella Hazan, and the bouillon powder from Hong Kong influence. It’s a salt and MSG umami bomb, what’s not to like?