Pasta - Penne Rosa in Tomato-Cream Wine Sauce
Noodles and Company, Penne Rosa Copycat
Posted By Savita
Sharing with you 15 minutes, easy and delicious pasta recipe which will sure make a spot in your personal Italian Favorites cookbook - guaranteed. This is probably how I started making Italian food at home. We had lots of Penne Rosa in Noodles and Company in San Diego. Love their quality and taste of food and service. Always satisfactory.
Their Penne Rosa Pasta dish, I ate first time with my colleagues for an office lunch. Loved it at first bite, never hated it ever again. When it comes to my favorite flavors & food, I want to make'em at home (if possible). So that we can eat economical way and avoid going out still enjoying the food we crave for.
So, I tested recipe, adapted and tasted it a number of times until I got it perfect, to call it Penne Rosa. You have to try it to believe me.
In States, I often use store bought Marinara Sauce (mostly Costco Marinara - Pack of Two) or Tomato Basil Sauce to make this recipe. However, in India, I even make this sauce at home from scratch, starting from blanching tomatoes in hot bath. :) Well, for today, I will just stick to Pasta Recipe with Wine and Tomato Sauce and a promise to share my tomato-basil marinara some other time.
Try this recipe and I will wait for your taste bud's feedback and if you like it, please Pin-it for me. Enjoy!!
Pairing Ideas:
Ingredients
- 2 Cup Marinara Sauce (or your favorite tomato-basil sauce)
- 1 lbs Pasta (Penne Pasta, I generally use Barilla Penne Pasta)
- 1/4 Cup White Wine (good quality cooking wine or leftover white wine)
- 1/2 Cup Heavy Cream
- 1/2 Cup Parmesan Cheese
- 250 Grams Spinach (about a cup or a generous handful of baby spinach)
- Salt and Black Pepper (per taste)
- 2 Garlic (cloves of garlic)
- 1 tbsp Olive Oil
Directions
- 1. Cook Pasta - Bring a large pot of water to rolling boil, add generous salt,, drop in pasta and cook until al-dante. ( about 8-10 minutes or cook as per pasta package directions.)
- 2. Tomato-Cream Wine Sauce - While pasta is cooking, heat 1 tbsp oil in a wide pan, add fine chopped cloves of garlic and let it perfume the oil for 30 seconds. Now add marinara or tomato sauce and stir to combine. Let sauce cook on medium-high heat for 5 minutes. Add wine and mix well. Let it simmer for another 2-3 minutes, so that wine evaporates. Heat on low, mix in heavy cream. Taste and adjust salt and black pepper if needed.
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Assemble and Serve - Add cooked pasta to the simmering tomato sauce. Immediately top it with all Parmesan Cheese (leave 2-3 tbsp for serving), add spinach. Now gently toss the pasta and mix it with hot Tomato-wine sauce sitting at the bottom. Divide it in 4 serving pasta bowls, top with some extra Parmesan cheese, serve a rustic Italian Bread on the side and enjoy!!
Additional Notes:
Always add cheese on hot pasta before mixing with sauce. It makes pasta stick to cheese and then to sauce. Yumm
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