Tag: Sun Dried Tomato Pasta

Who doesn’t love an easy and yet delicious weeknight dinner! If you’re a lover of simple pasta, then you will love this recipe for Sun Dried Tomato Spaghetti. Tender spaghetti, fresh basil, bits of sun dried tomato and the richness of the parmesan, all the goodness in one dish!

This recipe makes for an easy, quick and delicious weeknight meal. It is flavourful, savoury, fresh, simple and satisfying. Also, it makes a perfect summer easy dish for the hot weather when you’re craving light and refreshing dishes. 

Sun Dried Tomato Spaghetti Ingredients 

Very few ingredients are needed for this spaghetti recipe. Handful of fresh basil leaves, few cloves of garlic, jarred sun dried tomatoes in oil, freshly grated parmesan, diced tomatoes, olive oil and dry spaghetti. Feel free to add vegetables or chunks of cooked chicken if you want to make it a full meal. This is the easiest pasta recipe out there.

The sweetness of the sun dried tomatoes and freshness of the basil leaves is exactly what you would like on a hot summer evening. This is an easy dinner recipe which is amazingly delicious and can be served as a complete meal or nicely pair it with a bowl of Green Pea and Peanut Quinoa or Homemade Garlic Bread.

Eat this Sun Dried Tomato Spaghetti warm, cold or lukewarm – it still tastes amazing. That is why it makes for an easy yet tasty summer dinner recipe. 

For everyone who is gluten free and vegan, don’t worry you too can enjoy this recipe with a few variations. Simply use gluten free pasta and vegan parmesan. In just a few minutes you have a vegan and gluten free pasta ready! 

How to prevent spaghetti from sticking together 

If the noodles aren’t cooked correctly they can get quite sticky. But that won’t happen anymore if you follow the steps i’ve mentioned below. 

• Make sure water is boiling – Before adding the spaghetti to the pot of water, make sure it is boiling. If you add the dry spaghetti to the pot of water which is not truly boiling then they would simply sit there in not hot enough water. This would make the spaghetti soggy and clumpy. 
  
• Stir the spaghetti – As the spaghetti is coated with a sticky layer of starch, it is essential you stir them in the first two minutes of dumping them in boiling water. If you don’t stir them, the spaghetti will stick together and will remain stuck. 
  
• Add salt to the water – Adding salt to the boiling water prevents the spaghetti from sticking together and also enhances the flavour. The salt has contact with the surface of the pasta and prevents it from getting slimy while being cooked. The salt roughs up the surface of the spaghetti. This is essential for dried pasta. 
  
• Adding oil to the water – Many people believe this step prevents the spaghetti from sticking. But if you use plenty of water and keep stirring it, you wouldn’t need oil. Adding oil to the water will make the spaghetti slippery and the sauce will  not adhere to the spaghetti. Even adding oil to cooked spaghetti will have the same effect. The sauce will simply slide off. Simply toss the pasta in a bit of sauce immediately after cooking to prevent it from sticking. 
  

If you try this recipe, let me know what you think by leaving a comment below. And don’t forget to take a picture and tag me on Facebook / Instagram SpoonfulStoriesbyIshanaPassi so we can be pasta pals!