Creamy Tomato Pasta Sauce
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion, peeled and chopped fine
- 1 (28 ounce) can plum tomatoes, pureed
- 1⁄4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground oregano
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground basil
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground thyme
- 1⁄4 lb cream cheese
directions
- In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat and cook onions for about 3 minutes or until softened.
- Add tomatoes and spices and bring up to a boil.
- Reduce heat and simmer for about 10 minutes, or until thickened.
- Whisk in softened cheese until mixture is smooth and is softly bubbling.
- Toss with cooked pasta (try penne) and serve with parmesan cheese.
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Reviews
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I have been looking for a recipe like this for a very long time. I happened to search Recipezaar in a panic after a late day at the office. I had all the ingredients on hand except the pasta. However I had some frozen cheese tortellini. What a wonderfuly combo. I made the recipe exactly as documented except that I also pureed the onions. Some family members don't like onions. (If they don't see them, life is good). Thank you for submitting this really good and flavorful recipe. I can think of a number of ways I can serve this in the future.
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This was very good--used FF cream cheese and added a few red pepper flakes just because we really happen to like it hot! The only thing was that the color freaked us out a tiny bit--we're just finicky (it's sort of pinkish). I don't know how you'd fix that! But the taste was nice! thanks for posting, lennie!
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This was good. I added some sugar and salt to balance the tomatoes. It wasn't really special, but it hit the spot and I had everything on hand. Only thing, is maybe next time I may cut down the amount of cream cheese. But thanks for sharing! I'm fussy with pasta cause I lived in Italy. I just can never seem to capture their flavor...that being said I am a novice cook!
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Tweaks
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Very good basic tomato sauce. I have enjoyed playing around with it. Have made it a couple of times and finally settled for adding 3 garlic cloves, 1/2tsp brown sugar, 1/4tsp salt and 3 dashes tabasco. Furthermore I have upped the spices to 1tsp oregano and 1/2tsp thyme. When Hubby wanted meat with the sauce I made it non-dairy by substituting the cream cheese for thick soy cream. As said, a very versatile good basic sauce. Thanks for posting.
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