Originally Posted by
SamanosukeShiva
I wouldn't do tomato sauce for beginner pasta sauce since it takes very long to make, and you can pretty much buy a jar of already done tomato sauce and add your own stuff to it.
I'd go with white wine, lemon, and butter sauce (a very light version of beurre blanc) . VERY quick to make, and easy as hell.
Pasta: 12-15 min total
-First you boil the pasta according to the box's instruction
-drain the pasta
-give it a quick rinse with cold water to cool it down
-drain the pasta again
-set it aside in a bowl.
-toss it with olive oil, you only want a tiny bit of oil here so the pasta doesn't stick to each other. Or you can use non-stick spray(unflavored one, butter spray sucks) while tossing the pasta instead.
-cover and set aside while you make the sauce.
Sauce: 5 min total
ingredients for 1 portion:
1 tbsp of sliced shallots or 3 tbsp of diced yellow/red/white onion works too if you don't have shallots lying around.
1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
1/4 of a stick of butter cut into tiny cubes (size of a dice)
1 lemon, zest half the lemon, and juice the whole lemon.
1/4 cup of white wine (preferably dry wine, sweet/fruity wine doesn't really work)
1-2 tbsp of chopped parsley (doesn't matter which kind, I prefer flat leaf parsley as opposed to curly parsley)
1. Heat up the olive oil on a pan.
2. Throw in the shallots or onion in the pan, cook them until they're starting brown.
3. Once they're starting to brown, pour in the white wine into the pan. (it will be bubbling)
4. Let it boil until the white wine is reduced to about half of its original volume.
4. Throw in a cube of butter, stir until it dissolve, throw in another one, rinse and repeat until you run out of butter.
5. Toss in the pasta that you've set aside into the sauce.
6. Throw in the lemon zest/lemon juice/parsley, mix well into the sauce/pasta.
7. Serve.
At this point you could even garnish the pasta with shaved Parmesan if you like, and eat it with garlic bread or something.