Pasta with Slow-Roasted Tomatoes ♥

Once you start roasting tomatoes in late summer and early fall, easy suppers like this half make themselves. Here, it's just pasta tossed with a ten-minute sauce, including a few skillet-toasted walnuts. Just gorgeous ...

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A Late-Summer Obsession

Back in 2005 when A Veggie Venture was just months old, I became became obsessed with roasting tomatoes low 'n' slow, that is "slow roasting". It's largely a hands-off operation:
Roast small, meaty tomatoes in the oven at a very low temperature, I settled on 200F/100C.
Roast the tomatoes for up to 12 (yes, twelve) hours with no more than a little olive oil and some dried herbs.

Why? Slow-roasting creates such rich, dark, concentrated tomato flavor. No wonder I and others became obsessed!

So Please, Go Roast Some Tomatoes

To make this wonderful pasta dish, yeah, first you'll need to roast some tomatoes. The technique is here, Slow-Roasted Tomatoes. And once you roast the tomatoes for hours and hours, make dinner in 15 minutes.

That's the ultimate meal prep, isn't it?! It's worth it, even if you do it just once a year, when late-summer garden-ripe tomatoes are easy to find.

This recipe is so quick and easy that I'm adding it to a growing collection of easy summer recipes published all summer long ever since 2009 at Kitchen Parade, my food column. With a free Kitchen Parade e-mail subscription, you'll never miss a one!

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RECIPE for PASTA with SLOW-ROASTED TOMATOES

Hands-on time: 15 minutes
Time to table: 25 minutes
Serves 4

PASTA
Water
8 ounces dried pasta
Salt

SLOW-ROASTED TOMATO SAUCE
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large clove shallot or 1/4 a small onion, diced small
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 tablespoon chopped walnuts
1 cup Slow-Roasted Tomatoes
Hot Pasta Water, if needed,
Hot Cooked Pasta

TO FINISH
Grated parmesan

PASTA This is an unconventional way to cook pasta but give it a shot! (Or use your own method, no problem.) Add the water, pasta and salt to a big pot, all at once, all before heating up the water. Now bring the water to a boil, stirring occasionally so the pasta doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan. Bring the water to a boil. Cover the pot and cook the pasta for as long as the package suggests. Taste for doneness. Scoop out about a cup of the hot pasta water, then drain the rest of the water.

SLOW-ROASTED TOMATO SAUCE Heat oil on medium heat in a large skillet. Stir in the shallot or onion and sauté until just beginning to soften. Add the garlic and walnuts and let cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in the Slow-Roasted Tomatoes and warm through. If the sauce is a little thick, stir in a tablespoon or two (or more, as needed) Hot Pasta Water; use only as much water as needed for the sauce to coat the pasta, you don't want to water down the tomato flavor. Gently stir in the Hot Cooked Pasta until it becomes coated with the sauce.

FINISH Serve the pasta into shallow pasta bowl and shower grated Parmesan over top. Dig in!

MAKE-AHEAD Could you make the sauce ahead of time? Sure.

LEFTOVERS Leftovers reheat well but really, don't expecte leftovers.

ALANNA's TIPS & KITCHEN NOTES
With pasta, I allow 2 ounces of dried pasta per serving, that's less than most recipes and much-much less than restaurant servings. I'm happy with one serving, my bigger-appetite husband usually eats two servings. I make sure to supplement with a nice salad and some vegetables. Or garlic bread. :-)

NUTRITION INFORMATION Per Serving: 325 Calories; 8.68g Tot Fat; 1.4g Sat Fat; 4mg Cholesterol; 87mg Sodium; 53g Carb; 5g Fiber; 7g Sugar; 12g Protein. WEIGHT WATCHERS Old Points 6 & PointsPlus 9 & SmartPoints 10 & Freestyle 8 & myWW green 8 & blue 8 & purple 8

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