Butter Bean and Tomato Spaghetti

Name: Butter Bean and Tomato Spaghetti
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: 200g Spaghetti; 1 tin, drained Butter beans; half a carton, about 250g Passata; 1 small, finely diced Onion; 3 cloves, sliced Garlic; 1 tbsp Tomato purée; 1 tsp Italian herbs; 2 tbsp Olive oil; to taste Salt; to taste Black pepper

Confident20 mins · serves 2 · hob

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Method

1
Big pot of water on, and salt it like you mean it. It should taste of the sea. This is the only chance you get to season the pasta itself rather than the sauce.
2
Olive oil into a pan on a low heat with the onion and a pinch of salt. Ten minutes, low and slow, no colour on it.
3
Garlic in for one minute.
4
Tomato purée in and fry it for a full minute until it darkens. Raw purée tastes tinny and this is the step that fixes it.
5
Passata in, Italian herbs in, and let it bubble gently for ten minutes.
6
Spaghetti into the boiling water, one minute less than the packet says.
7
Butter beans into the sauce for the last five minutes. Be gentle with them, they break up easily, and a few broken ones is fine because they thicken the sauce.
8
Before you drain the pasta, save a mug of the cooking water. Everybody forgets this and it is the whole recipe.
9
Pasta into the sauce, never sauce onto the pasta. Add a good splash of that starchy water and toss it hard for a minute. The sauce goes from watery to glossy and starts clinging to the strands.
10
Black pepper, taste for salt, and eat it straight away.

Ingredients

What this recipe uses, then the pack you buy. How we price

Spaghetti · 200g11p£0.28 for 500g
Butter beans · 1 tin, drained45p£0.45 for 400g
Passata · half a carton, about 250g71p£1.95 for 690g
Onion · 1 small, finely diced12p£0.80 for 1kg
Garlic · 3 cloves, sliced7p£0.87 for 4 bulbs
Tomato purée · 1 tbsp£0.59 for carton, size not stated on the listing
Italian herbs · 1 tsp5p£0.69 for 13g
Olive oil · 2 tbsp16p£5.29 for 1L
Salt · to tasteunder 1p£0.65 for 750g
Black pepper · to tasteunder 1p£1.59 for 100g

Buying every pack from scratch£13.16

Priced at Aldi, with an empty cupboard. The packs feed you more than once, so the second number is the shop rather than the meal. Estimates, not your receipt.

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Contains gluten.

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