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Italian pasta with tomatoes and garlic

Name: Italian pasta with tomatoes and garlic
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 300 g Macaroni; 3 l Water; 2 Tomatoes; 1 Onion; 3 Garlic cloves; to taste Salt and pepper; 200 g Hard cheese; as needed Olive oil

Macaroni tossed in a skillet sauce of fresh tomatoes, onion, garlic, and olive oil, then topped with grated hard cheese. Serves 4.

Italian cuisine · Translated from Slovak · October 24, 2026 · Light recipe · 494 kcal per serving

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Servings: 4 servings
Difficulty: Easy

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Italian pasta with tomatoes and garlic is a simple dinner made with a few basic ingredients, ready in about 20 minutes. While the macaroni cooks, briefly simmer chopped fresh tomatoes with garlic in olive oil. Toss the cooked pasta in the sauce, then finish with grated hard cheese.

Pasta was once food for the poor, and this humble preparation shows why it remains popular today. If you have fresh basil, thyme, or rosemary on hand, feel free to add some.

Instructions

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Cook the pasta in salted boiling water with a little oil. Meanwhile, dice the tomatoes and finely chop the onion. Heat olive oil in a skillet and press the garlic into it. Add the tomatoes and onion, sauté everything together, then bring to a simmer to let the flavors meld and release their aroma.
Drain the cooked pasta well, drizzle with a little olive oil, and toss. Add it to the vegetables, season generously with salt and pepper, and heat briefly in the sauce. Turn off the heat, grate the hard cheese over the pasta, and let it melt and firm up slightly in the skillet.
Add fresh basil, thyme, or rosemary to the pasta, if desired.

Tip: Add rosemary or thyme to the tomatoes in the skillet so their flavor infuses the sauce. Tear basil over the finished pasta; prolonged cooking would darken it and diminish its aroma.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 494 kcal
Protein: 23 g
Carbohydrates: 63 g
of which sugars: 4.7 g
Fat: 17 g
of which saturates: 9.7 g
Fiber: 3.6 g
Salt: 1.7 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Talianske cestoviny s paradajkami a cesnakom – za 20 minút