Paccheri with Cherry Tomatoes
2018-11-21 10:28:45
Serves 4
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
10 min
Total Time
20 min
Ingredients
- Short pasta (like penne) 320g
- Cherry tomatoes 500g
- Half-smoked "scamorza" cheese
- 3 cloves of garlic
- Basil (optional)
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Chili pepper (optional)
Instructions
- While you are cooking your pasta, you can prepare this sauce.
- Wash the tomatoes and put them in a big pan with garlic, a few olive oil and salt.
- Cut tomatoes in two pieces if they are too big.
- Cut into small pieces the half-smoked "scamorza" cheese.
- Drain the pasta in a couple of minutes, at the end of cooking and put it in the pan.
- Turn up the heat so the excess liquid will dry.
- Switch off the cooking and put the cheese on pasta.
- The heat of the pasta will melt the cheese at the right point.
- Serve with a few leaves of basil.
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