Vodka Sauce Pasta
pasta
Top 5 favorite dish ever: Vodka Sauce Pasta! It’s the simplest recipe to make that I love when I have minimal ingredients or even when I want to prepare something delicious and special!
Vodka Sauce is the best of both worlds in my opinion. It’s robust like a tomato sauce but silky and creamy like an alfredo sauce. I like to make mine a little spicy and I always add some meat in it when I have it in my fridge. But Vodka Sauce is so versatile. Sometimes I make it vegetarian and leave out the meat. Sometimes I add extra vegetables in it like dark leafy greens or mushrooms. And sometimes I make it completely dairy free and used plant-based milk instead of cream or half and half.
Here are the Ingredients for this Vodka Sauce Pasta:
Vegetables - Yellow Onion, Garlic
Seasonings - Salt, Pepper, Red Pepper Flakes
Dairy - Butter, Half & Half or Cream, Parmesan
Pantry - Tomato Paste
Meat - Prosciutto
Vodka Sauce Pasta
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 cup yellow onion
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes
- pinch of salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup prosciutto (can also use salami or omit altogether)
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 tbsp vodka or white wine
- 1 1/2 cups cream
- 2 cups cooked pasta
- 1/4 cup pasta water
- parmesan to top
Instructions
- Heat the butter and olive oil and then cook down the onions with garlic, red pepper flakes, salt & pepper, & prosciutto. Cook until prosciutto gets a little crispy.
- Add the tomato paste and cook until it turns dark red. Add in the vodka or wine and cook for 3 minutes.
- Slowly stir in the cream while stirring.
- Right before the pasta is done cooking, take out 1/4 cup of pasta water and add it to the sauce.
- Stir in your cooked pasta right in the sauce pan. Top with parm and serve!
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