• 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.