With this simple Spicy Tomato Cream Pasta Sauce, you can have a delicious meal on the table in just a matter of minutes. It involves adding a few ingredients to your favorite spaghetti sauce to turn it into creamy, spicy heaven. Toss it in with some angel hair pasta which I love because it cooks up so fast.
There’s something about pasta sauces with cream that I can’t resist. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Penne alla Vodka? Yes please!
Tonight we are going to Mama Ricotta’s in Charlotte as an early birthday celebration for me. I always get the Penne alla Vodka with Sausage. Every time. It’s so comforting, with plenty of spice. If I’m being a good girl, I bring half of it home for lunch the next day.
When I want a creamy pasta at home, this Spicy Tomato Cream Pasta can’t be beat. It couldn’t be easier. Cook some diced onion and garlic in a little oil until sauce, add some cream, basil, and a jar of your favorite pasta sauce. Since I like some spice I add some red pepper flakes but you could leave them out. Add 1/4 teaspoon for a little spice and 1/2 teaspoon for a lot of heat. Let simmer until all the flavors come together. Toss it with some cooked pasta and you’re ready to eat.
Serve Spicy Tomato Cream Pasta with a green salad and some crusty bread for a quick weeknight meal on a super busy day.
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Spicy Tomato Cream Pasta
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small onion,, diced
- 2 garlic cloves,, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 (24-ounce) jar spaghetti sauce
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 pound angel hair pasta
Instructions
- Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook for 3 minutes.
- Add garlic, basil, and red pepper flakes and cook 1 minute.
- Add spaghetti sauce, heavy cream, salt and pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes, or until thickened to your liking.
- Cook pasta according to package directions, drain and mix together with sauce.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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This was amazing. Doubled the amount of chilli flakes, but other than that perfect. made it with a jar of costco garlic, olive oil, and basil tomato sauce.
This is delicious and a saver on busy weeknights. I use peeled plum tomatoes instead of jar sauce, a lot more salt, basil, oregano, a little cube of rock sugar (to counterbalance the acidity from the tomatoes), and a lot more red chili flakes! My hubby loves it too. Thanks!
This is such an easy and delicious recipe! I make it once a week!
My husband loves this recipe! I add a can of diced tomatoes to make it a little more chunky and crab meat. So good and so quick and easy.
I would love to see a picture and adding tomatoes sounds good. Thanks!
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Thanks so much for letting me know Maggie. So frustrating!
I made this for dinner tonight and added ground beef and i didn’t have cream on hand but i did have sour cream. So i used that.
It came out so delicious everyone noticed a difference in the sauce i was super excited😃
Instead of heavy cream could I use half and half?
Like the previous poster, my husband isn’t a big fan of spaghetti but he loved this. I had to use the minimum amount of pepper flakes because I’m the spicy lover between the both of us but I did add garlic smoked sausage and sautéed them with the onion and oil first. And used Prego’s roasted garlic and herb sauce which was already in my cabinet. Horrible for my calorie counting diet but an amazing comfort food. With it, I made a basic garlic bread where I spooned melted butter, cayenne pepper, garlic salt, and Italian seasoning on bread and broiled it on high by eye. It was perfect together! Thank you for this spiced up recipe!
Sounds like you and your husband had a wonderful meal! 🙂
Can you use somthing else than pasta sauce. Maybe smooth like tomato passata.
Regards chris
Hi.
My husband is not a fan of pasta. Yet I am willing I try this recepie. I have ragu tomato and garlic pasta sauce in the house would that work ? And elbow pasta instead of spaghetti ? Please let me know
Yes, that sauce would work and you ca definitely use the elbow pasta.