Fancy Tomato Pasta

Posted on Wed May 14, 2025

253 Words - reading time: 1 minutes.

stove-cooked 13
pasta 5
lunch 12
high-carb 21
high-fiber 15
Jump to recipe

This is a very simple pasta recipe. It’s easy, comforting, and always hits the spot. I usually make it with penne instead of spaghetti because I love penne lol. I call this my fancy depression meal.

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Ingredients

  • A portion of pasta
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • Small red onion, diced
  • Fresh tomatoes, diced (or canned tomatoes)
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Grated hard cheese

Optional Ingredients (Makes it not pomodoro tho lol)

  • Diced carrots
  • Diced bell pepper
  • A squeeze of lemon juice
  • Mashed up avocado
  • Mozarella
  • Fresh basil

Steps

  1. Bring a pot of salted water to a boil and cook the pasta according to the package instructions.
  2. While the pasta cooks, heat a bit of olive oil in a pan.
  3. Add the minced garlic and diced red onion to the pan.
  4. If using, add the diced carrots and bell pepper shortly after the onion and garlic. Cook until softened.
  5. Stir in the diced fresh tomatoes (or canned tomatoes). Let it simmer for a few minutes until the tomatoes break down into a sauce.
  6. Season the sauce with salt and pepper to taste. If desired, add a squeeze of lemon juice for brightness. You can also add some mashed up avocado to improve the texture of the sauce.
  7. Add the cooked pasta to the pan with the sauce. Mix it all together.
  8. Top with grated hard cheese and optional mozzarella if desired. If you feel really fancy, you can put some fresh basil leaves on the top.
Vege Dreams Logo

Vege Dreams

Hi, I'm Andrew and this is my little vegetarian cooking blog. I want to save recipes that I either made myself or had to ask for from around the world.

Recent recipes

NEW

Quick Flatbread

This is like a breakthrough in my life, I’ve always had to wait for hours to make a Naan just for it to be gone in seconds. This is literally the same satisfaction from a good, fluffy flatbread …

Bread.

This is bread… Yup, pretty simple, just gotta wait 2 hours for it to rise. It’s good, it’s simple, its bread.

Berry Pancake Bread

This is a high protein pancake bread, that fills you up for a long time, and feels very satisfying, you can also make it into a portable glass container (oven-safe) and take it to work. This should be …