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Delicious and easy pasta dish with tomato spaghetti, roasted tomatoes and mustard as the surprise ingredient in the sauce. It’s perfect for a quick weeknight meal!
Tomato spaghetti
It’s quite funny how I tend to go to pasta whenever I feel the need to get rid of leftover vegetables in the fridge. In this case I had loads of tomatoes that needed to be used and a tomato spaghetti seemed like the natural thing to make. I have a love for tomatoes anyway and especially during the summer season I cannot get enough of them.
If you love tomatoes too this tomato spaghetti is for you! (or try this delicious tomato curry for a change!) Adding mustard to the pasta sauce is maybe a somewhat strange addition but it worked really well here in combination with some creme fraiche. It give the tomato spaghetti a delicious flavor.
Roasting the tomatoes
The tomato content in the spaghetti is made up of fresh tomatoes and tinned tomatoes. I roasted the fresh tomatoes with some salt, pepper and olive oil in the oven for about 15 minutes. I love roasting tomatoes. It makes them so delicious and sweet and brings out a whole different flavor. Plus is merges better with the pasta.
Which pasta to use
I used fresh spaghetti here but you can use just about any kind of pasta you like. I particularly like spaghetti here as the sauce sticks to the spaghetti strands. But it would work well with another shape like orechiette or penne.
The tomato spaghetti is pretty quick except for the fact that the tomatoes obviously need to be roasted so calculate some extra time for that.
Tomato spaghetti with roasted tomatoes and mustard
Ingredients
- 150 gr fresh pasta
- 150 gr smoked chicken
- 1 can diced tomatoes
- 2-3 tbsp creme fraiche
- 1 tbsp whole grain mustard
- 500 gr tomatoes
- smoked salt
- pepper
- some cheese grated
How to make tomato spaghetti
- Preheat your oven to 200˚ C and put your tomatoes in a baking tray. Sprinkle generously with olive oil and smoked salt (if you do not have smoked salt, regular sea salt will do just fine) and freshly ground pepper.
- Put the tray into the oven and roast for about 15 minutes.
- In the meantime put on your water for the pasta with generous salt.
- Cut the smoked chicken in small strips.
- Heat some olive oil and bake the chicken briefly. Add the tomato cubes to it and the creme fraiche.
- Add 1 tbsp of mustard and taste. Season where needed
- Cook your pasta per the package instructions, drain and add to the sauce.
Nutrition Information per portion:
Disclaimer:
The nutritional values above are calculated per portion. The details are based on standard nutritional tables and do not constitute a professional nutritional advice.
