Photo: Pasta with Pancetta and Tomato Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 ounces pancetta, diced
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- Sea salt
- 2 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
- Pinch dried crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 (28-ounce) can tomato puree
- 1 pound linguine
- 1/2 cup grated Pecorino Romano
Directions
Add the pancetta to a heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add olive oil and saute until golden brown, about 8 minutes. Add the onion and saute until tender, about 5 minutes. Season with salt. Add the garlic and red pepper flakes. Saute until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Stir in the tomato puree. Simmer uncovered over medium-low heat until the sauce thickens slightly and the flavors blend, about 15 minutes. Season the sauce with salt, to taste.
Meanwhile, boil the linguine in a large pot of boiling salted water until tender but still firm to the bite, stirring occasionally, about 8 minutes. Drain, reserving 1 cup of the cooking liquid.
Toss the linguine with the sauce in the skillet, adding some of the reserved cooking liquid until the pasta is moist but being careful not to dilute the sauce. Toss with the cheese. Season with salt, to taste.
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By bear5376_9001598
Milford, MI
on April 27, 2013
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Great recipe, and extremely easy, I have no idea what industrialcook is talking about in their review. Maybe they need to go on Worst Cooks and learn some basics. All it takes is knowledge of chopping, which takes maybe 10 minutes. If you can't make this recipe easily and in under an hour, you shouldn't be cooking. My only suggestion is to add some sugar. I added about 4 Tbsp to cut the acid of the tomato sauce, came out fantastic. Do it one Tbsp at a time though, you don't want it to get sweet, just take the edge off the acidity. One more thing, Pancetta is available at every grocery store's deli counter I've ever been to, Kroger carries it, so no need to hit a gourmet food store...
By industrialcook
on December 02, 2012
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First off, I'm no five star iron chef and this recipe was far from "easy and quick" as it and most reviews describe. This was NOT something I wanted to get into after a long day at work but foolish me decided to once again give foodnetwork a chance and try this.
Also, it is in no way an inexpensive recipe to make. If by some miracle, you do find pancetta at your grocery store, prepare to shell out a hefty twelve to twenty bucks just for the six ounces. I did it because I thought, "hey if it's an expensive ingredient maybe it will be a delicious meal."
Wrong.
Waste. Of. Time. And. Money.
Do not make this horrid recipe. The sauce they claim is "soooo goooood!!" is simply tomato paste with tasteless bits in it. It was watery, too tomato-ey, lacked complex and was a complete waste of my time and money.
I simply wanted an easy delicious meal to make after work and instead I had the misfortune of stumbling across this.
Thanks for the waste of time and money foodnetwork. I'm done!
By 61 cook
Spring, Tx.
on July 15, 2012
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Great as long as you follow recipe. Some of my friends didn't than told me it wasn't as good.
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