This is my go-to recipe when I buy a bunch of cherry tomatoes to use in salad then I end up not using them all. It’s a good way to use up tomatoes that are about to go bad. Cherry tomatoes are the most flavorful to me, but you could also use roma tomatoes and add a little more sugar. For this recipe I added bacon and parmesan but you can omit to make this vegan. A hard block of aged parmesan has almost no lactose (not that grated kraft stuff). Also, garlic infused and truffle infused olive oils are low fodmap and a great alternative to using fresh garlic. They are good for a SIBO diet.
Fresh Tomato Pasta Sauce (Vegan)
Servings 2 Servings
Equipment
- Frying Pan
- Sauce Pot
- Plastic Slotted Spoon
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Cherry tomatoes Cut in half
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/4-1/2 tsp Sugar
- 2 servings Dry pasta
- Pasta water
- 1 dash Garlic infused oil optional
- 1 dash Truffle infused oil optional
- Parmesan optional
- Cooked bacon bits optional
Instructions
- Boil water and add pasta in sauce pan. Meanwhile, at the same time set frying pan over medium-low heat and add halved cherry tomatoes.
- Add salt and sugar to the tomatoes. The tomatoes will soften and release their juice. If the pan gets too dry add starch water from the pasta that's cooking. (i maybe added 1/2-3/4 cup by the end of the sauce cooking).
- After the tomatoes look soft and stewed, I turned down the heat until the pasta would be finished. Taste the sauce and add more salt or sugar according to your taste. You could also add in the cooked bacon at this point.
- Once Pasta is al dente (or about 1 minute before done cooking), use a plastic slotted spoon to take the pasta out of the water and transfer it to the sauce pan. The extra pasta water that falls in couldn't hurt the sauce. You could also use a colander to drain the pasta first before adding to the sauce. once the pasta is added to the sauce, cook together for another minute on low heat until the pasta soaks up the sauce.
- After plating the pasta I added a little drizzle of truffle oil on top. You could also add garlic infused oil instead. I added my parmesan on top.
Notes
I cooked up my bacon ahead of time and crumbled it. It stays in the fridge and I use it in various recipes. The bacon added an extra salty porky-ness to the pasta sauce. I thought it was a really delicious addition. I added the bacon after adding the pasta water to the tomatoes.