Quick Pasta Sauce

Being Italian American, pasta sauce is traditionally reserved for Sunday dinner.  The sauce cooks for hours and hours.  These days, the quicker I can prepare dinner, the better.  This is not a recipe for Sunday sauce.  I don’t even think I could post that one if I tried.  I don’t measure.  I just start tossing stuff in the pot adding ingredients until it tastes right.

I was flipping through a back issue of Cooking Light Magazine before food shopping.  When the magazine comes in the mail, I scan it for recipes that sound tasty and I fold down the page for when I’m sick of our dinner rotation.  I was needing comfort food.  Specifically pasta.  I didn’t have all day to make sauce and my grandmother would disown me at the thought of buying pre-made sauce.  I found this recipe and it looked like a fresh and simple quick sauce.

The methods used in this recipe were really different to me, but take my word on this.  It is fantastic!  Light in calories and full of flavor.  I served this over Barilla plus pasta (extra protein in it) with a side salad.  It’s the perfect weeknight meal.

Since the weather is warming up, I used my toaster oven instead of cranking up the big oven for a small dish of tomatoes.  Ain’t nobody got time for dat.

I lightly adapted it from Cooking Light Magazine.  Here’s my version…

 

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Pin this, print this, bookmark it or whatever you have to do to make this meal happen.  It’s light, and delicious.  Enjoy!