I had a really good rigatoni putanesca today. I don't often make pasta at home for some reason and I'd like to change that.
What are your favorite pasta sauces? Ones that fly under the radar, ones that are quick any easy when you don't really feel like cooking, ones that you make to impress a date... let's hear em all!
Half an onion, minced
Knob of butter
1 L of a good passata
Tablespoon of chicken bouillon powder
Olive oil to taste
Salt, pepper, chili flakes to taste
Sauté the onion in butter until translucent. Add in the passata and bouillon powder. Add olive oil and seasonings to taste. That's it.
The recipe is sort of a mishmash of influences. It derives from an ancestral recipe, but the use of butter comes from Marcella Hazan, and the bouillon powder from Hong Kong influence. It's a salt and MSG umami bomb, what's not to like?