Spicy Cottage Cheese Pasta Alla Vodka
Ingredients: Shallots, Garlic, Salt, Rigatoni, Olive oil · 45 min cook time · 510kcal · $16.30
Ingredients
2whole Shallots, 1clove Garlic, to taste Salt, 1box Rigatoni, 0.25cup Olive oil, 0.5pint Cherry tomatoes, 1tube Tomato paste, 1pinch Red pepper flakes, 0.25cup Vodka, 8ounces Cottage cheese, 0.5cup Parmesan, 0.5cup Basil
Instructions
1. Generously salt boiling water and cook rigatoni pasta until al dente, reserving some pasta water before draining.
2. Roughly chop shallots and a clove of garlic.
3. Heat olive oil in a skillet and cook chopped shallots and garlic until soft and sweet, without browning.
4. Add cherry tomatoes to the skillet and cook until they burst.
5. Add the whole tube of tomato paste and red pepper flakes, cooking until the tomato paste darkens slightly in shade.
6. Deglaze the pan with vodka, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom.
7. In a food processor, combine the remaining cottage cheese, parmesan cheese, a bit of olive oil, the tomato mixture from the pan, black pepper, and pulse while slowly adding pasta water until smooth.
8. Pour the vodka cottage cheese sauce over the cooked rigatoni in the pot, toss to coat evenly, and serve topped with parmesan cheese and fresh basil leaves.
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