Pasta Bake Sauce Recipe

thunderchild

I am ashamed to admit that I just the jars :eek: but they are blooming expensive and a bit more calorific that I'd like. Does anyone have a recipe for a basic tomato pasta bake sauce recipe?

JulieGeorgiana

I used tomatoes, onion and garlic with herbs as a base... simmer down (add sugar for taste) and blitz with a hand blender.

I use this as a pizza base sauce, or as a pasta bake sauce, or anything really...

You can add wine, mushrooms, peppers, chilli flakes etc etc

HTH

overlykeensaver

slowly cook chopped onion, celery peppers, carrot (what ever veg you fancy) in oil for about 10 minutes, add some chopped garlic for a further 4-5 mins. Now add 2 tins of tomatoes (break up the tomatoes if whole), a teaspoon of white wine vinegar, any fresh herbs you may have (ie rosemary, oregano etc) or if using dried, just a small pinch of oregano. Add a pinch of sugar, stir and leave to simmer with lid on for at least 30 mins.

Now you can use this sauce as you would a jar - ie pour over just cooked pasta and stick in the oven with cheese on top.

Hope this helps!

puddy

when ive baked pasta in the oven in the past, i just cook it first and mix it with whatever (chopped toms, tuna, onions etc etc), put a bit of cheese on and bake it. you could experiement by mixing passata and chopped toms with pasta and see how long it takes to cook the pasta in the oven rather than beforehand. i cant stand jar stuff myself, by OH loves all that rubbish (although he wouldnt touch a pasta bake which means i cant cook one otherwise i'd eat the whole thing!)

thunderchild

Thank you ladies. Just thinking this could go with rubber chicken!

JulieGeorgiana

thunderchild wrote: »

Thank you ladies. Just thinking this could go with rubber chicken!

That's what I do!! I use leftover chicken with pasta and make a sauce and add more onions, mushrooms and peppers and mix together

Pink.

Hi thunderchild,

These threads have lots of recipes that may help:

Pasta Bake Recipes

Chicken Pasta Bake

Tuna pasta bake

Recipe for a pasta bake sauce, using uncooked pasta, please?

Quick and Easy Tomato Sauce for Pasta Required

pasta sauce recipes

I'll add your thread to the first link later to keep the suggestions together.

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RachelS

I got used to the creamy Dolmio ones so I like a slightly creamier pasta bake sauce. I tend to use tomatoes, veg etc as above and then throw in a bit of cream cheese.