Easy Halloumi Pasta With Tomato Sauce
Craving something quick, fresh, and bursting with flavour? This Halloumi Pasta is the easy recipe you didn’t know you needed, featuring a slightly spicy tomato sauce packed with fresh cherry tomatoes and the irresistible golden crunch of fried halloumi. Perfect for a weeknight win that feels a little fancy!
Ingredients
- 2 garlic cloves thinly sliced
- ½ chilli pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoon capers + 1 tbsps of caper brine
- 10 olives pitted and sliced into rounds
- 1 tin chopped tomatoes 400g
- 100 g cherry tomatoes halved
- 225 g halloumi cut into bite-sized pieces
- 120 g tenderstem broccoli sliced into long thin strips
- 180 g spaghetti
- ¼ lemon juice only
Instructions
- Heat a tablespoon of oil in a large frying pan over low heat. Add the sliced garlic, chilli flakes, capers with brine and sliced olives. Fry for 2 minutes on low heat.
- Pour in the chopped tinned tomatoes. Stir and leave to simmer on medium-low heat and reduce for 12-15 minutes. If you reduce your sauce too much, just add a splash of starchy pasta water. Add the halved cherry tomatoes and cook for another 2-3 minutes, until tomatoes soften slightly.
- Once the sauce is cooked, taste it and season it with salt and black pepper, if needed.
- In the meantime, cook your pasta following the instructions on the packet, making sure to cook your pasta al dente.
- As your pasta cooks, cut your tenderstem broccoli into thin long strips (resembling the long pasta shapes).
- Fry the halloumi cubes in a separate frying pan until browned all over.
- When the pasta is about 2 minutes away from being cooked, tip the broccoli strips into the pasta pan, cover with a lid and leave to cook for 2 minutes.
- Drain the cooked pasta and broccoli and tip them into the tomato sauce and toss to combine. Finally, stir in the halloumi and lemon juice. Serve immediately!
Nutrition
Calories: 531kcalCarbohydrates: 57gProtein: 28gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 13gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gSodium: 1471mgPotassium: 493mgFiber: 5gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 1096IUVitamin C: 63mgCalcium: 852mgIron: 3mg
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