A lovely Italian rose sauce recipe for any night of the week.
When I get bored of rice and if I want to have something classic, I always choose pasta. I have my few favourite recipes like mushroom creamy pasta, eggplant pasta, pasta aglio e olio, penne arrabiata, fettucine alfredo, ravioli with pesto & pine nuts and the list goes on. These are my most favourites. But I don’t mind 😉 to add few more to it. My friend krips took me to a restaurant in little Italy here before few months and we had a pasta based on rose sauce. And we both got crazy about the sauce. It was totally yum, simple, tasty and classy. So, we wanted to try it at home and we did try the very next week. We just loved it. She made it with some chicken and I made it with mushroom. 🙂 I did not take pictures when I made it the first time, I wanted to try and taste it first. So, this time I made with spinach and I baked it with some cheese on top and again it tasted scrumptious. This sauce is really good. You should try it! It’s an addiction I would say!
The way to season everything perfect is by seasoning everything along the way. Season your tomato sauce with salt and pepper, and also your pasta water with salt. Be careful not to season them more as we are adding cheese at the end which will give some additional salt.
You can just have this pasta without baking. I just took an extra step to make it even more delicious. I understand that this recipe has cheese, heavy cream and it makes many guilty. But once in a while we need to treat ourselves with these :), it will surely make you happy and complete! 🙂
- • Pasta – farfalle variety (you can use any variety) – 650g
- • Olive oil – 2 tbsp
- • Red chilli flakes – 2 tsp
- • Garlic – 3 cloves, minced
- • Onion – 1, medium sized, finely chopped
- • Tomato sauce – 450 ml ( I used Hunt’s)
- • Heavy cream – ¾ cup
- • Sour cream – ¼ cup
- • Salt and pepper to taste
- • Sugar – a pinch
- • Spinach – 2 cups
- • parmeggiano reggiano/ Parmesan – 1 tbsp, grated, For garnish
- • Fresh basil – 1 tbsp, chopped, for garnish
- • Mozzarella –½ cup, grated for baking
- Cook the pasta according to the instructions on the package. Boil water and add the pasta with the salt needed for pasta. Then remove and run the pasta through cold water. And toss with a little oil to prevent sticking.
- Take a pan in medium high heat, add oil. Add chilli flakes, onions, 2 cloves of garlic and sauté it till onions get translucent. Then add spinach and sauté it till it shrinks and get roasted a bit.
- Now add the tomato sauce, salt, pepper, sugar for the sauce. Let it get cooked in medium to low flame for 25 minutes until it thickens, stir it occasionally.
- Preheat the oven now to 350F.
- Add the cream and sour cream mixture and let it cook for 5 minutes. When you think it has got into nicely thick creamy texture, add the pasta to it.
- Now transfer this into a baking dish, top it with grated mozzarella and bake for 20 minutes till the cheese melts and turns its color into golden brown.
- Top it with fresh grated parmeggiano reggiano, chopped basil and some crushed pepper just before serving.
2. You can use any kind of pasta you fancy.
Never tried baked pasta before! Looks delicious 😛
Thank you eva 🙂 You should try it! It is a different level 😀
This looks and sounds amazing, with so much flavor. A complete comfort food. I would love to try making it – substituting nut milk for the cream and vegan cheese for the dairy. Great recipe.
yeah, that is a great idea! It is good to do that for vegan recipes 🙂
I want a huge bowl of that pasta right now!! And with all that spinach it must be.. No has to be healthy?! Well I’m going to go with that bake up a batch asap. Thanks for sharing this delicious recipe 🙂
thank you Meaghan 🙂 Thats a great comment for the day 🙂
This looks so good! Delicious, creamy, gooey! I like that it’s baked – great idea!
Thank you Julia again 🙂
Looks like I found something my wife actually likes to eat. Sounds like it would be a hit!
I recently came across boursin cheese culinary spreads. One could take away the sour cream and heavy cream and use that, it would cut a bit of the calories and still taste like heaven too…
thank you , you should try for it to your wife!!! 🙂 yeah true , it would still taste good without cheese !
This looks fantastic! And don’t we cooks all deserve a little treat for ourselves once in a while? 😉 Can’t wait to try this out.
Yeah for sure 😀 Thats a great relaxation for food lovers 🙂
I tried this recipe sukanya.. It came out really well… I tried pasta for the first time and it was delicious😀 myself n Yokesh loved it.. Thank u so much.. I am excited to try more recipes😁
Thank you Manju Dear :)!!!! 😉 Will try SOya recipes soon and post!
Is this spicy at all?
it is not spicy, it is flavorful but!
What happened to the recipe?
Sorry about that. I fixed it. 🙂 Thank you so much for letting me know
Thanks very much 😁 I was in middle of making it and panicked, lol. Luckily someone had pinned it on Pinterest which had the ingredient list …or most of it, and I was able to cobble it together. It was delicious! Thanks for replacing the original.
I tried your pasta for kids lunch box and my teenagers loved it. Great work and thank you so much.
Thank you Sonal 🙂 Glad 🙂 they liked it!
How can I print this recipe without all the photos in it?
I made this recipe last nite. It was good but I added more tomato as I found the amount of pasta needed more sauce so it wouldn’t dry out during baking. I also added more cheese. I would make it again as it was relatively easy.