It’s disgusting. I put so much tomato paste and use it as tomato sauce. I hate myself. And I need to eat this bullshit after one hour of cooking
by Competitive_Leg1803
28 Comments
Kooky-Ad-7290
maybe you can salvage it? what’s wrong with it? too sour?
Fragrant-Cut9025
Add more water and pasta and make a large batch of pasta. Store it for lunch for a couple of days. Won’t taste ideal on the following days but at least you won’t have to suffer through them
PercentageNonGrata
For future reference, you can probably omit tomato paste. Just tomatoes, onion, garlic, salt is all you basically need.
If you want to fix that, maybe some cream or cream cheese would mellow out the flavour.
Ok_Ordinary1877
Live and learn. Next time start off a trusted recipe
Lemonarm
You might want to add some red chili flakes and a garlic.
What does it taste like now? Sour or sweet or something else? Like tomato soup? If all else fails add some butter.
lecrappe
Needs more sauce
No-Independence-4803
Tomato paste in a tube is also 2x concentrated so that may be an issue. You add sugar only if using crappy tomatoes. If you use any supermarket canned Italian tomato you will not need sugar. But it’s pasta. Dump it in a colander to drain the sugar sauce and make yourself something baked with savory additions like parm and olives.
Doc7062
Wash it off with cold water in a strainer. Throw it back into the pan with some olive oil, pepper, chili flakes and cheese.
SpyDiego
Ok maybe drain the pasta, put it back in hot water for 5 seconds or rinse it. Then just butter the pasta and keep this sauce for next time
Primal_Hearts
In addition to less tomato paste for next time, cook the tomato paste at a moderate heat for a little bit and it’ll lower the acidity/sour flavor, turning it into a brighter flavor.
SeveredExpanse
The sycophants on this sub are committed to making OP eat something that tastes horrible.
Add some sugar, and some baking soda… Nah
throw it in the trash.
deja_fool
Rinse it. Add ranch dressing. Maybe a little cheese.
No-Independence-4803
A box of pasta is also about $3, so start over and have fun finding a better recipe is always an option. You didn’t screw up beef Wellington or Dover sole.
Changnesia102
Tomato paste is not great for a full blown pasta sauce. Coming from experience.
MistressMcDragon
Oh gross. Baking soda NO! Milk NO! Start over. Toss it all!
Try this;
1/2 sweet yellow onion sliced or diced 1 clove fresh crushed or minced garlic (or more if you love garlic) 1/2 lb fresh sliced mushrooms sliced 2 stalks celery sliced 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil + 1 Tablespoon butter Sauté about 15 mins on medium/high or until the onion is translucent
Add: 1 15 oz can of tomato sauce and 1 15 oz can of diced fire roasted tomatoes
Add: 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning 1 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon Lawrys season salt 1 tablespoon ground black pepper 1/2 cup red wine (any kind will do)
Simmer at least 30 mins.
You can add cooked ground beef, turkey, pork or Italian sausage
Cook pasta of choice and top with pecorino cheese. Serve with green salad and garlic bread. Serves about 6
Those kind of weird videos on YouTube cheated me . It’s no way to eat so much tomato sauce….thats why I made this disgusting dish today ☠️
Dependent_Top_4425
Sweet baby, don’t hate yourself. We all make stuff we don’t like sometimes. You’ll make something you like better next time.
mintchan
Do you put any salt in it? If I use tomato paste, I usually add more salt. Take one spoonful, sprinkle a tiny salt, check if it improves
adagna
Try balancing it with a little sugar, salt, and acid. Also another good route to take is make a bit of bechamel/white sauce, and dilute the strong tomato paste flavor. Even just a splash of heavy cream if you have it, or some half and half or milk in a pinch.
It’s better, in the future, to keep cans of tomato puree, or whole plum tomatoes in your pantry rather than tomato paste. Tomato paste is a good tool, and ingredient when used sparingly but the other two I mentioned will make a great actual base for a sauce.
Typical_Key_6948
It looks terrible too
alexaTheGothDemom
This reminds me of Tumblrs World’s worst Alchemist
Densityroa
Looks terrible too!
Mr_Bloke_Smunts
Less is more. Don’t beat yourself up. Looks like if you mix some veggies or starch you can make it more appetizing
I_Piccini
Who exactly gave you the idea that you can use tomato paste as tomato sauce? And on top of that, add sugar and milk?! That’s insane!
getting-old76
If you do not mind if being vodka pasta sauce which is not vodka—eeee. Rao Vodka Pasta Sauce. Rao Penne pasta brand.
It’s such a great company! I also will dice up garlic and onion, sauté it. Add ground beef cook that, drain or push in a paper towel to get extra grease. I also add dried garlic and onion powder to sauce, but a few dashes of each. Salt pepper
Then I’ll add maybe half can of chicken broth, Half can of tiny tomato paste,you could also add peeled and diced from a can, tomato chunks. bug depends on what person want. I use about 1/2 can Stir and press onto it to try and make rotations ground beef as small and broken up. I don’t like no funky chunkys! 😉
Then a couple good splashes of red wine, A teaspoon of sugar (I use about 2.5 though) I’ll put 2 teaspoons of milk, Keep stirring, I’ll add a tablespoon of butter and then throw some Parmesan cheese like the (Kraft type) consistency. Cook about 45 minutes cover as it can get messy like a volcano keel on low heat.
Then boil water Put pasta in Towards end of pasta cooking take a cup of the pasta water in sauce.
28 Comments
maybe you can salvage it? what’s wrong with it? too sour?
Add more water and pasta and make a large batch of pasta. Store it for lunch for a couple of days. Won’t taste ideal on the following days but at least you won’t have to suffer through them
For future reference, you can probably omit tomato paste. Just tomatoes, onion, garlic, salt is all you basically need.
If you want to fix that, maybe some cream or cream cheese would mellow out the flavour.
Live and learn. Next time start off a trusted recipe
You might want to add some red chili flakes and a garlic.
What does it taste like now? Sour or sweet or something else?
Like tomato soup?
If all else fails add some butter.
Needs more sauce
Tomato paste in a tube is also 2x concentrated so that may be an issue. You add sugar only if using crappy tomatoes. If you use any supermarket canned Italian tomato you will not need sugar. But it’s pasta. Dump it in a colander to drain the sugar sauce and make yourself something baked with savory additions like parm and olives.
Wash it off with cold water in a strainer. Throw it back into the pan with some olive oil, pepper, chili flakes and cheese.
Ok maybe drain the pasta, put it back in hot water for 5 seconds or rinse it. Then just butter the pasta and keep this sauce for next time
In addition to less tomato paste for next time, cook the tomato paste at a moderate heat for a little bit and it’ll lower the acidity/sour flavor, turning it into a brighter flavor.
The sycophants on this sub are committed to making OP eat something that tastes horrible.
Add some sugar, and some baking soda… Nah
throw it in the trash.
Rinse it. Add ranch dressing. Maybe a little cheese.
A box of pasta is also about $3, so start over and have fun finding a better recipe is always an option. You didn’t screw up beef Wellington or Dover sole.
Tomato paste is not great for a full blown pasta sauce. Coming from experience.
Oh gross. Baking soda NO! Milk NO! Start over. Toss it all!
Try this;
1/2 sweet yellow onion sliced or diced
1 clove fresh crushed or minced garlic (or more if you love garlic)
1/2 lb fresh sliced mushrooms sliced
2 stalks celery sliced
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil + 1 Tablespoon butter
Sauté about 15 mins on medium/high or until the onion is translucent
Add:
1 15 oz can of tomato sauce and 1 15 oz can of diced fire roasted tomatoes
Add:
1 tablespoon Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon sugar
1 tablespoon Lawrys season salt
1 tablespoon ground black pepper
1/2 cup red wine (any kind will do)
Simmer at least 30 mins.
You can add cooked ground beef, turkey, pork or Italian sausage
Cook pasta of choice and top with pecorino cheese. Serve with green salad and garlic bread. Serves about 6
You are welcome. 😊🍝🥖🍷
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How can bro just eat it directly ☠️I’m not Italian .and I think the tomato pasta have a too strong of taste. It is horrible
One hour for cooking pasta??? WTF.
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Those kind of weird videos on YouTube cheated me . It’s no way to eat so much tomato sauce….thats why I made this disgusting dish today ☠️
Sweet baby, don’t hate yourself. We all make stuff we don’t like sometimes. You’ll make something you like better next time.
Do you put any salt in it? If I use tomato paste, I usually add more salt. Take one spoonful, sprinkle a tiny salt, check if it improves
Try balancing it with a little sugar, salt, and acid. Also another good route to take is make a bit of bechamel/white sauce, and dilute the strong tomato paste flavor. Even just a splash of heavy cream if you have it, or some half and half or milk in a pinch.
It’s better, in the future, to keep cans of tomato puree, or whole plum tomatoes in your pantry rather than tomato paste. Tomato paste is a good tool, and ingredient when used sparingly but the other two I mentioned will make a great actual base for a sauce.
It looks terrible too
This reminds me of Tumblrs World’s worst Alchemist
Looks terrible too!
Less is more. Don’t beat yourself up. Looks like if you mix some veggies or starch you can make it more appetizing
Who exactly gave you the idea that you can use tomato paste as tomato sauce? And on top of that, add sugar and milk?! That’s insane!
If you do not mind if being vodka pasta sauce which is not vodka—eeee.
Rao Vodka Pasta Sauce.
Rao Penne pasta brand.
It’s such a great company!
I also will dice up garlic and onion, sauté it.
Add ground beef cook that, drain or push in a paper towel to get extra grease.
I also add dried garlic and onion powder to sauce, but a few dashes of each.
Salt pepper
Then I’ll add maybe half can of chicken broth,
Half can of tiny tomato paste,you could also add peeled and diced from a can, tomato chunks. bug depends on what person want. I use about 1/2 can
Stir and press onto it to try and make rotations ground beef as small and broken up. I don’t like no funky chunkys! 😉
Then a couple good splashes of red wine,
A teaspoon of sugar (I use about 2.5 though)
I’ll put 2 teaspoons of milk,
Keep stirring,
I’ll add a tablespoon of butter and then throw some Parmesan cheese like the (Kraft type) consistency.
Cook about 45 minutes cover as it can get messy like a volcano keel on low heat.
Then boil water
Put pasta in
Towards end of pasta cooking take a cup of the pasta water in sauce.
Mix’n and enjoy your fix’n!
It looks terrible dude💔