Super easy ketchup pasta recipe which is loved by kids. Since it is made with their all time favourite ingredient tomato ketchup. It is a great recipe to put together in minutes.
Tomato Ketchup Pasta Recipe
Imagine if you don't have much time on hand to make dinner or trying to make a quick pasta dish for your kids lunch box. This interesting Ketchup pasta might come handy. All you need is tomato ketchup to create the sauce.
About Tomato Ketchup Pasta
If you are out of tomatoes, tomato sauce, pasta sauce. Then this recipe comes handy. It is made using ketchup and I am sure it is one of the staple ingredients in everyone house specially with the ones with kids. Then this recipe can be put together in under 15 mins.
I am sure Italians are going to come after me, once they see this dish. But this combination actually works. I am not sure how, but it works.
The combination of the slightly sweet and tangy ketchup when combined with the milk gets into a creamy sauce. It coats pasta beautifully and taste so yummy.
More Pasta Recipes
Imagine a sweet, thick tomato flavoured sauce coating each strands of noodles. It just clings to the pasta so much better that regular sauce making it so delicious.
You start by sauteing garlic in olive oil along with herbs and chilli flakes. This adds flavour to the oil. Add in ketchup, salt and sugar. Cook this with garlic until the sauce starts to caramelize.
Now comes the unique part, mix cornstarch with milk to make a slurry which we add in to the sauce to thicken it. This not only thickens the sauce but actually turn it into a creamy mix.
I used spaghetti, you can use any noodles of choice.
Step by Step Pictures
Cornstarch milk mix
1)Start by cooking pasta in lots of salted boiling water until al dente. Take cornstarch in a bowl.
2)Add milk and mix until it is lump free. This is what we will use to thicken the sauce. Set this aside till needed.
Make Sauce
3)Heat olive oil in a sauce pan. Add in finely chopped garlic and saute until fragrant.
4)Once garlic is cooked, add in herbs and chilli flakes. Let them release the flavours in the oil.
5)Now add in tomato ketchup. This is what make the base of the sauce.
6)Add a good amount of tomato ketchup.
7)Stir fry the tomato ketchup for 2 to 3 minutes in the oil until it begins to caramelize.
8)Add in salt and sugar to taste. In this recipe, sugar helps cut down the acidity from the ketchup, so use a little bit. If you don't prefer the sweet note you can skip sugar.
9)Add in little bit of the pasta cooking starchy liquid.
10)Mix really well to form the sauce.
11)Now pour in the milk and cornstarch mixture into the ketchup.
12)Mix this well and cook for 2 more minutes until the sauce thickens.
13)This is your tomato ketchup pasta sauce.
Adding Pasta
14)Now add in the cooked drained pasta into the sauce.
15)Toss to combine. Add more pasta cooking liquid if needed. Serve hot.
Expert Tips
- This pasta dish is slightly sweet, so you can skip sugar if you want. You can increase the chilli to balance the sweetness.
- Any pasta shapes can be used for this pasta dish. Even boiled noodles can be added.
- Cooked vegetables can be tossed into the sauce like mushrooms, corn, peas.
- You can add some grated parmesan cheese into the sauce.
Serving & Storage
Ketchup Pasta taste best when made and served immediately. You can enjoy with garlic bread or toast of choice.
FAQ
There's no reason why ketchup couldn't be used in a pasta sauce. It is entirely possible to make a perfectly good pasta sauce with ketchup by combining other seasonings and ingredients.
In Sweden, many people use ketchup instead of marinara sauce on their pasta dishes. Even in many Filipino dishes ketchup is used.
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Tomato Ketchup Pasta Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
For Cooking Pasta
- 70 grams Spaghetti
- 600 ml Water
- 1 teaspoon Salt
For Tomato Ketchup Pasta Sauce
- 1 tablespoon Olive Oil
- 2 cloves Garlic peeled & chopped finely
- ¼ cup Tomato Ketchup
- 1 teaspoon Dried Oregano
- 1 teaspoon Red Chilli Flakes
- 1 teaspoon Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon Sugar
For Cornstarch Milk Mix
- ½ cup Milk
- 1 teaspoon Cornstarch
Instructions
- Cooking Pasta - Bring water in a sauce pan to a full boil, add in salt to taste. Add in pasta and cook pasta in salted boiling water as per package directions. Strain through a colander, reserve the pasta cooking liquid which we will use later.
- Cornstarch Milk - Take cornstarch in a bowl, add milk to it and mix well. Set this aside, we will use this to thicken the sauce later.
- Make Sauce - Heat oil in a pan. Add in garlic and cook on low heat for a minute. Sprinkle in oregano and chilli flakes into the oil and let them sizzle. Add in ketchup, salt and sugar and stir fry in oil. Let it get thick and begin caramelizing. Add some of the pasta cooking liquid and mix well. Now pour in the milk cornstarch mix and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. the mixture will start to thicken into a sauce.
- Making Ketchup Pasta - Now add in the cooked pasta into the sauce along with some pasta cooking water and toss well. Let the sauce coat the strands of noodles. Serve.
bob
l don't like it. it was too sweet and you will get sick of it after a couple bites.
Concern
Don't add the sugar then. Recipes can be adjusted.
Parker
Reminds me of when i was a kid and my mom used to make this for me, telling me her mom made it for her. Love it!
STEVE
ABSOLUTELY MINGING
Jugram
YUCKS LOL!!