SPAGHETTI WITH FRESH TOMATOES PARMESAN AND BASIL 🌿 🥰 

Spaghetti with cherry tomatoes and basil are a first course that I cook many times. It is in fact an easy and quick dish to prepare. Just a handful of cherry tomatoes and a few basil leaves, a few minutes of cooking and the sauce (to be prepared strictly while cooking pasta) is ready. These are the dishes that I prefer precisely because few ingredients are needed and within everyone's reach, very fast cooking and the result is a dish that in its taste has nothing to envy to more complicated dishes and rich in ingredients. In short, when you have little time to devote to the kitchen but you do not want to give up taste, this is the ideal dish!

A perfect first course to make and enjoy any time in hot weather, with the heat due to high temperatures! It is a plate of spaghetti seasoned with fresh tomato sauce that is prepared, the sauce is a fresh tomato sauce where the cherry tomatoes are blended together with olive oil, basil, parmesan cheese and salt. The fresh tomato sauce is used to season the pasta directly, so that it just heats up! A few minutes and a tasty pasta dish is ready to serve: spaghetti or other long pasta format such as linguine are perfect for holding the sauce but, alternatively, a short pasta format such as penne, fusilli, rigatoni is also fine. To make this first course even tastier you can add grated pecorino cheese to the fresh tomato sauce so as to have spaghetti fresh tomato and pecorino cheese with an exceptional flavor. It is prepared at the moment, during the cooking of pasta: these spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce are tasty, light and fresh. The fresh tomato sauce is already lactose-free, using a seasoned cheese.

Ingredients for 4 people

350 g spaghetti

200-300 g cherry tomatoes

1 clove of garlic

extra virgin olive oil to taste (or one teaspoon per person)

fresh basil to taste

1 chili pepper

salt

Preparation

Prepare the Spaghetti with cherry tomatoes and basil by cleaning the cherry tomatoes and cutting them in half. Heat the olive oil in a large pan, add the clove of garlic and a chopped chili pepper and let it brown, then add the cherry tomatoes and cook over medium heat for 10-15 minutes, leaving everything to flavor well. At the end of cooking, season with salt and add a few chopped basil leaves. Meanwhile, boil the spaghetti in salted water, drain and pour into the pan with the prepared cherry tomato sauce. Let them sauté for a few minutes, possibly adding a little spaghetti cooking water. Serve the Spaghetti with cherry tomatoes and basil.

Notes

You can make a lighter version of this dish using one teaspoon of oil per person. Our Spaghetti dish with cherry tomatoes and basil is a basic recipe that you can decide to enrich with many other ingredients, for example with tuna, capers, olives or even with smoked bacon. And if you stir the spaghetti with grated pecorino cheese and Parmesan you can get an excellent Pasta allo scarpariello. 😉