Recipe Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Pancetta

[MypinchofItaly]

Serves: 2 | Preparation time: 5 mins | Cooking time: 15 mins

• Short Pasta, Fusilli or Rigatoni: 180 g
• Sun-dried tomatoes in olive oil: 60 g
• Cherry tomatoes, 2-3
• Packaged Italian unsmoked Pancetta ( cured pork belly ) : 50 g
• Tomato puree: a teaspoon
• Garlic: 2 cloves
• Thyme, fresh: 1 sprig
• Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO): 2 tbsp
• Salt and pepper: to taste

Method

Boil pasta in plenty of salted water and drain when it is still ‘al dente‘, i.e. drain it 2 mins before the standard cooking. Keep a ladle of cooking water aside for later.

Drain sun-dried tomatoes from their oil, cut them coarsely. Halve cherry tomatoes.

Brown garlic cloves in 2 tablespoons of olive oil along with pancetta, turning occasionally. Add cherry tomatoes, stir-fry them for 2 mins, add thyme and sun-dried tomatoes, remove the garlic, add a tsp of tomato puree, a bit of the cooking water you set aside, stir well so to get a nice creaminess.

Add pasta to the pan, sautéeing everything for 2 mins. Serve warm.

 

[TastyReuben]

Bookmarked!

 

[MypinchofItaly]

Bookmarked!

Yep!

 

[medtran49]

Me too, except I'll use our oven dried tomatoes.

 

[MypinchofItaly]

Me too, except I'll use our oven dried tomatoes.

It will be more special then! I would like to have the time to make them on my own, instead I use the ready-made ones in a jar.
They are not bad, but homemade is another thing

 

[medtran49]

Just reading through the recipe. You mention adding cherry tomatoes, but they aren't in the ingredient list?

 

[MypinchofItaly]

Just reading through the recipe. You mention adding cherry tomatoes, but they aren't in the ingredient list?

a forgetfulness, just added!

 

[caseydog]

Sundried tomatoes are kind of out of favor lately, at least in the US. They get labeled as "trendy" from the 80s. I personally like them, and don't care if they were once trendy. They taste good. That's all that matters to me.

Interesting article - What Ever Happened to Sun-Dried Tomatoes? An Investigation.

CD

 

[Morning Glory]

Sundried tomatoes are kind of out of favor lately, at least in the US. They get labeled as "trendy" from the 80s.

Same in the UK. I like them sometimes - but like chorizo (here) they did get rather overused in dishes in the 80's and 90's.