Pop's Primo Cheese Pasta With Cherry Tomato Sauce
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Ingredients
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1/3 cup water
  • 2 pints cherry tomatoes
  • 1 bay leaf
  • pinch of salt
  • pinch of pepper
  • dash of red pepper flakes
  • 1 tablespoon minced basil
  • salt, to taste
  • 1 pound fresh garganelli or dried rotelli
  • 4 pieces stracciatella*
  • 15 ounce ricotta
  • 1 tablespoon grated parmesan
  • 1 tablespoon basil, minced
Directions
  1. Warm the oil and butter in a pan over medium heat. Add the crushed garlic and simmer momentarily. Add the tomatoes, water, and bay leaf, and cover for 10 minutes.
  2. Then, add the salt, pepper, red chile pepper flakes, basil, and cook, stirring, until all the tomatoes burst, about 10-15 more minutes. Adjust the seasoning, and serve.
  3. Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Then, add salt, to taste. Cook the pasta until al dente and drain, reserving a ladleful of salted-starchy pasta water to add to your sauce (make sure to reduce it on high heat accordingly).
  4. Cut the stracciatella into 4 pieces. In a large bowl, mix together the stracciatella and ricotta. Toss the pasta with the cheese. Ladle the sauce into the bottom of a bowl, ladle in the cheese-coated pasta, top with some sauce, Parmesan, and basil, and serve.