Pasta with cherry tomatoes and herbs

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 500 g cherry tomatoes
• 2 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 1 sprig sage
• 4 1 sprig thyme
• 5 1 garlic clove
• 6 500 g Pasta
• 7 50 g Parmesan (Parmigiano Reggiano)
• 8 salt
• 9 pepper
• Total weight: 1,120 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
15 min.	15 min.	30 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Wash, then cut into 2, 500 g cherry tomatoes. Sprinkle with fine salt and set aside.
2	In a frying pan over medium heat, pour in 4 tablespoons olive oil and when hot add 1 sprig sage, 1 sprig thyme and 1 garlic clove crushed with the blade of a knife. Cook for 1 minute, stirring to flavour the oil.
3	Add the tomatoes, season with pepper, stir a little and cover to cook for 5 to 10 minutes.
4	Meanwhile, start cooking the pasta.
5	When the pasta begins to stew a little, uncover it and stir a little.
6	Take the pasta from the pot with a skimmer and put it directly into the pan.
7	Mix well, add grated 50 g Parmesan (Parmigiano Reggiano), a little pasta cooking water, and stir gently to form the cooking sauce. Check seasoning.
8	Serve immediately, with a little grated Parmesan cheese on top, and a drizzle of olive oil.

Remarks

If you make this recipe in summer or autumn, you can replace the cherry tomatoes with diced tomatoes.
Instead of parmesan, you can try pecorino, or a mixture of the two.

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