Lemon and Tomato Pasta (Vegan)
Fragrant with bright flavours, this Lemon and Tomato Pasta makes a hearty lunch, exactly one one needs after spending a sunny morning pottering in the garden. Happy Thursday!
Ingredients (serves 2):
2 cups short pasta (like fusilli or penne)
2 tablespoons olive oil
½ large Green Onion
1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
1 1/2 lemons
1/3 red chili pepper
2 small, ripe tomatoes, rinsed
a pinch of fleur de sel or sea salt flakes and freshly cracked black pepper, to taste
2 teaspoons caster sugar
3 leaves Garden Basil
2 1/2 tablespoons Limoncello
In a pot of salted boiling water, cook fusilli according to package’s direction, usually 9 to 11 minutes until al dente.
While the pasta is cooking, heat olive oil in a large, deep, nonstick skillet over medium heat.
Finely chop the Green Onion and stir into the skillet, saving a bit of the green part. Cook, a couple of minutes until softened.
Add dried oregano, dried basil, and grate in the zest of a whole lemon. Fry, a couple of minutes more.
Thinly slice red chili pepper, and add to the skillet; cook, 1 minute more.
Roughly chop the tomatoes, and stir them into the skillet, along with their juice. Increase heat to medium-high, and simmer, 4 minutes, stirring often. Season with fleur de sel and black pepper, to taste. Then, stir in caster sugar until dissolved. Thoroughly squeeze in the juice of the lemons, and cook, 1 minute more.
Then, drain fusilli, saving about 1/4 cup of its starchy water. Stir both into the skillet, coating the pasta in sauce. Give a gentle stir until the sauce beautifully coats the pasta.
Finely chop Basil, and stir it in, along with Limoncello, and remove from the heat.
Serve Lemon and Tomato Pasta hot, sprinkled with reserved green part of the Green Onion, with a glass of chilled dry white wine, like a light and citrus-y Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc.
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