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If you’re looking for something different from green pesto, then this pasta is a delightful alternative. It’s an easy pasta with red pesto sauce and a spicy twist. A delicious combination of flavorful pesto and the kick of sambal. Of course, you can also make the red pesto for this recipe yourself, but we haven’t done that here. The optional burrata adds a soft, creamy flavor to the pasta, making it slightly milder in taste. The arugula is for decoration but adds a fresh, bitter bite to the pasta.
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Instructions
Gather the ingredients.
Meanwhile, finely chop the 2 cloves garlic.
2 cloves garlic
Chop the 200 g white onion finely. Dry your tears and proceed to the next step.
200 g white onion
Cut the 500 g tomatoes into 1 by 1 cm cubes.
500 g tomatoes
The pesto sauce
Heat the 1 tablespoon olive oil over high heat and add the onion and garlic. Cook the onion until translucent.
1 tablespoon olive oil
Add the 300 g bacon cubes to the sauté pan and cook them for 5 minutes.
300 g bacon cubes
Add the sliced tomatoes and 1½ teaspoon sambal oelek to the skillet. Heat the tomatoes until they reach temperature and the liquid in the pan begins to simmer. Reduce the temperature, cover the pan with a lid, and let it cook for about 15 minutes over medium-low heat.
500 g tomatoes, 1½ teaspoon sambal oelek
Cooking the pasta
Cook the 400 g dried pasta according to the instructions on the packaging.
400 g dried pasta
The pesto sauce
Add the 190 g red pesto and stir everything well, heating for about 1 minute until the sauce begins to simmer.
190 g red pesto
Add the 50 ml cooking cream to the pan and stir the sauce well. Let the sauce thicken for about 3 minutes.
50 ml cooking cream
Turn off the heat and add the pasta to the skillet. Stir everything well so that the sauce coats the pasta completely.
Serve the pasta on a plate and optionally place half a ball of 2 burrata and a handful of arugula on top of the pasta on each plate. As we say in Dutch: eet smakelijk!
2 burrata, 10 g arrugola
Did you taste it?
Taste the sauce before mixing it with the pasta. The sauce should have a deliciously spicy flavor. If the sauce isn't spicy enough, add half a teaspoon of sambal at a time and stir the sauce well until it reaches your desired level of spiciness.
