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Dinner · 20 min · 2 bowls

Pantry pomodoro

Tomato paste, garlic, oil, pasta water until it is a sauce. Basil and parmesan if they are there. Don't leave the paste raw.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Tomato paste, garlic, oil, pasta water until it is a sauce. Basil and parmesan if they are there. Don't leave the paste raw.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • pasta
  • tomato paste
  • garlic
  • olive oil

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: basil, parmesan.

Method

  1. Tomato paste fried in olive oil with the garlic until it darkens from red to brick. This is the whole trick and it takes two minutes.
  2. Undercooked paste tastes tinny and raw; cooked properly it tastes like a sauce that simmered for an hour.
  3. Pasta water in to let it down to a sauce, then simmered a couple of minutes to come together.
  4. Pasta in and tossed hard, then basil and parmesan off the heat. A pinch of sugar only if the paste is sharp.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

pasta
The sauce finishes on the pasta, not the other way around.
tomato paste
Concentrated sweetness and savory depth, and it is raw out of the tube.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
olive oil
Two ingredients sharing a name.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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