Creamy Tomato Lemon Pasta Sauce 🍝🍋🍅

In honor of the Winter Olympics this year, I am getting into Italian cooking 🍝

Recipe one is pasta sauce. With the help of Chat GPT, I originally made this recipe to cook a single serving of whole wheat pasta in, but here I will offer a meal prep friendly recipe to make a 4 serving jar of this tasty sauce. Buon appetito!

Ingredients

• 20 g butter (about 1½ tbsp), 160kcal

• 2 tsp olive oil, 80kcal

• 1 tbsp garlic paste (3 squeezes), 30kcal

• 4 tbsp tomato paste, 60kcal

• 1½ cups unsweetened almond milk, 45kcal

• 1–2 tsp lemon juice

• 1 tsp Greek Freak seasoning (Spiceology)

• ¾ tsp salt, to taste

• ½ tsp black pepper

Instructions

1. Heat butter and olive oil over low–medium heat until melted.

2. Add garlic and cook 30–45 seconds, just fragrant.

3. Stir in tomato paste and cook 2 minutes, or until the color becomes a dark red, stirring constantly.

4. Slowly whisk in almond milk until smooth.

5. Simmer 3–5 minutes to thicken slightly.

6. Remove from heat, stir in lemon juice, then season with salt and pepper.

Nutrition Information

Entire Batch

• Calories: ~370 kcal

• Fat: ~33 g

• Carbs: ~11 g

• Protein: ~4 g

Per Serving (¼ batch, about 1/2 cup)

• Calories: ~95 kcal

• Fat: ~8 g

• Carbs: ~3 g

• Protein: ~1 g