Pasta dishes don't have to be complicated. Quick and easy to prepare is a sauce with cream cheese and sun-dried tomatoes.
On some days, there is little time besides work or errands for cooking. Do you still want it to be a hot meal? No problem for all pasta fans who like to prepare a simple sauce for their pasta. Typically, simple tomato sauces go well with long, thin pasta like spaghetti or bucatini. But also spaghetti carbonara, as the name suggests, is a perfect combination. Fine pasta (orecchiette or spaghetti) also tastes good with simple pesto. Which sauces still go well with pasta.
Typically, simple tomato sauces go well with long, thin pasta like spaghetti. Dried tomatoes are also suitable for some recipes. (Symbolic image) © Westend61/Imago
Pasta sauce with two ingredients: cream cheese and sun-dried tomatoes
You only need two ingredients for a pasta sauce, which according to the magazine Freundin.de goes well with any pasta: For the sauce, you only need 120 grams of double cream cheese and 80 grams of dried tomatoes. According to the recommendation, the preparation works like this: you should chop the dried tomatoes and puree them with the cream cheese. Then you can make the sauce creamy "with a little boiling salted water of the noodles" and bring the whole thing to a boil. The pasta sauce is ready.
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Spice up pasta sauce with Parmesan cheese and basil
If you like, you can spice up the simple sauce with a little basil and you should definitely season it with salt and pepper. For many Italians, grated Parmesan cheese is also a must for pasta dishes at home. Maybe they still have a package in the fridge.
