How to Make Appetizing Pasta with Cherry Tomato Date Sauce

Pasta with Cherry Tomato Date Sauce. If you can't find cherry tomatoes, any larger ones will work just as well for this summery pasta sauce recipe. Simply cut them into pieces about the size of cherry. Mix sauce with pasta and grated Parmesan cheese.

Use your summer crop of cherry tomatoes to make Chef John's recipe for cherry tomato sauce with penne pasta. Ended up adding it to another pasta sauce because I didn't want to waste my tomatoes. I definitely would not recommend this recipe. You can have Pasta with Cherry Tomato Date Sauce using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pasta with Cherry Tomato Date Sauce

1. You need 1/2 pound of penne pasta.
2. Prepare 25 of cherry tomatoes halved.
3. Prepare 1/4 cup of white wine.
4. You need 3 of dates diced.
5. You need 3 of gloves garlic sliced.
6. Prepare 2 tablespoons of Olive oil.
7. Prepare of Grated Parmesan cheese.

Drain & rinse with cold water. Separate ribbons of pappardelle and spread them on a paper towel or clean kitchen towel. Cherry tomatoes are almost always sweeter, riper, and higher in pectin than larger tomatoes at the supermarket. All of these factors mean that cherry tomatoes are fantastic for making a rich, thick, flavorful pasta sauce.

Pasta with Cherry Tomato Date Sauce instructions

1. Boil water for pasta. Make sure to heavily salt water before adding the pasta..
2. In large pan, heat olive oil over medium heat and add tomatoes and garlic.
3. When tomatoes begin to release juices, add the dates to the pan.
4. Add white wine and cook until alcohol is burned off.
5. Add a ladle of pasta water to the pan and continue to cook until tomatoes break down.
6. Strain pasta and add directly to the pan.
7. Top with grated Parmesan cheese and enjoy!.

Drain pasta and toss with tomato mixture. Transfer to a platter and sprinkle with tarragon, then tear mozzarella and scatter on top. I picked cherry tomatoes yesterday & was just going to mix with green onions , garlic and serve cold. Being the type of person that loves to experiment with food I made this wonderful recipe with pasta. Roasted Cherry Tomato Pasta is one of the first recipes I ever posted on this blog (and while the recipe remains the same, the photos needed some updating)!