Pasta with Tomato, Sweet Potato and Cheese

Average: 3.2 (33 votes)
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This delicious tomato sauce is enriched with vegetables. It is very versatile, you can mix it with pasta, as here, or blend it together with vegetables, fish of chicken.

 

Tomato, sweet potato & cheese sauce

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Ingredients

  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 1 clove garlic, chopped
  • 225g sweet potato, peeled and chopped
  • 2 medium carrots, peeled and sliced (approx 125g)
  • 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes
  • 200 ml vegetable stock or water
  • 60g Cheddar cheese,grated
  • 100g Organic Baby Shell Pasta Shapes or Alphabet Pasta

 

Method

Heat the oil in a saucepan and sauté the onion for about 4 minutes until softened.

Add the garlic and sauté for 1 more minute.

Stir in the sweet potato and carrots, then stir in the tomatoes and vegetable stock or water.

Bring to the boil, stirring, then cover the pan and simmer for about 30 minutes until the vegetables are tender.

Meanwhile, cook the pasta according to the instructions on the packet.

Once cooked, allow to the sauce  cool slightly, then blend the sauce to a puree and  stir in the cheese until melted.

Drain the pasta and mix with the sauce.

 

Information

Prep time 10 minutes
Cooking 30 minutes
Suitable from 9 months
Makes 6 portions
Sauce suitable for freezing
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feminique
wrote on 27 Mar, 2009.

can u freeze the pasta in with the sauce? or prepare the pasta when needed?

 
Louise hunter
wrote on 15 Jan, 2011.

I have lost count of how many batches I have made of this sauce, it goes with everything. Highly recommended!