Nutty Pasta (Gluten & Dairy Free) is also vegan and a quick every day type meal for us. I’ve fallen in love with the Cook’s Ingredients frozen herbs that Waitrose sells as I always feel so tight for time but I’m totally addicted to the taste of fresh herbs.
This makes a lot of sauce so either make a smaller batch, or do what I do and portion up the left overs and freeze them! I love having lots of sauce with pasta and it makes me feel better about having a better ratio of fresh veggies to carbs.
One of us has to avoid garlic so I tend to cook without it for ease but it would be delicious in this sauce so I’ve included it.
What you need:
(Serves 6 + a freezeable portion for a couple of kids)
- 3 Tins of chopped tomatoes (400g tins)
- 2 tbsp Tomato puree
- 1 very large onion or 2 medium ones, finely chopped
- 3 cloves of garlic finely chopped
- 30g fresh basil leaves (or more to taste), finely chopped
- 150g cashews – blitz’d up really small but not finely ground OR pine kernels if you can’t eat nuts
- Very big glug of olive oil
***quick tip: I use Waitrose’s Cook’s Ingredients frozen chopped basil for speed***
What you do:
- Gently frizzle the onion in the olive oil until softened
- Add the tinned tomatoes & the tomato puree
- Add the cashews
- Simmer for 5 mins
- (Taste and add 1-2 tsp sugar if you feel it’s too tart for your taste buds). I don’t.
- Add the fresh basil & serve with gluten free pasta!
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You may also like to see other Free From Recipes including:
Anything You Want Oaty Bites
Anything You Want Curry
Anything You Want Asian Stir-Fry
Churros
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The addition of cashew nuts has me really interested! I’ve never tried that before but it sounds really lovely. It’s another healthy, well written recipe from you hun! Thanks so much for linking up with #foodpornthursdays x
Ah thanks so much for your lovely kind words! Yes it does work really well and thank you for hosting such a fab linky!
Healthy, tasty dish! Thanks for linking up to #tastytuesdays x
Thanks Vicki x
sounds yummy i love simple pasta dishes! #sundaystars
They’re great aren’t they? Sometimes you just want a meal to cook itself and these are the next best thing. Thank you so much for commenting x
I’d never thought of adding cashews to a pasta sauce, will definitely have to try this one! #SundayStars
I only thought about it fairly recently myself! Thank you so much for reading #sundaystars and I hope your week is going well so far xxx
This sounds so quick and easy – my kind of dinner. Think I have most of those things in the cupboard too #tastytuesday (PS – I made your fish tacos from last week last night, a big hit in my house)!
Yes it is very quick and easy! You could always use a different nut if you don’t have cashews. So pleased you all enjoyed the fish tacos and thank you for coming back to tell me. I made them with chicken last week and they were just as delicious ;). They’d also work well with rice instead of wraps but then I guess they wouldn’t be tacos would they?? xxx
We all have these super quick stand-by pasta dishes for those days where we’re knackered, and yours sounds lovely! I love the addition of the cashew nuts, I will be trying this! #TastyTuesdays
Ah thank you Elizabeth, that’s such a lovely comment. I imagine other nuts will work just as well according to taste / allergies etc. xxx
Love the recipe. As a died-in-the-wool Yank, it took me a bit to translate all your terms and measures, but I stuck with it. Love “frizzle the onion”…that’s been permanently added to my vocabulary as of today! I’d never really thought to use nuts to amp up the flavor of a pasta sauce, what a great idea! This has been added to my meal planner for this upcoming week.
So glad I stumbled upon your post on the #BigFatLinky. Love using linkys as a way to find new content.
Ha ha – my husband is from Atlanta but he’s got used to my funny verbal quirks. Mostly! Thank you so much for reading and let me know if you use other nuts and what you think! Yes I’m loving #bigfatlinky too – looking forward to a good read over the next couple of eves.
Ooh I love the idea of sprinkling cashew nuts over pasta – it’s one of those things that now sounds so simple I don’t know why I’ve never tried it. Definitely trying it out next time I have pasta 🙂
I know exactly what you mean – it took me a while to think of it too! Thank you for commenting 🙂
You seriously need to stop with these posts!! Do you know I cane back last time and jotted the others down in my cook book. Pretty much will be doing that again! Lol. Looks fantastic! #bigfatlinky
You say such lovely things! Thank you Martyn x