Chitty Pasta with Tomato and Basil sauce

A super easy quick nutritious classic dish ideal for carb loading with low GI wholewheat pasta. (Remember keep your pasta and breads brown and not white)

Serves 4

Ingredients

• 500g wholewheat pasta
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1000g of chopped tomatoes
• 2 heaped tablespoons of muscovado sugar
• Bunch of fresh basil chopped
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 2 tablespoons of Olive oil

Method

• Cook the wholewheat pasta to instructions on packet
• Heat the oil in a large saucepan
• Add the onion and garlic and fry for 2-3 minutes
• Add the chopped tomatoes, cook for 3 minutes before reducing heat to simmer
• Stir in the muscovado sugar
• Add salt and pepper to taste (Lots of pepper works well)
• Add the basil and continue to simmer for a couple more minutes
• Drain the pasta and then add to the sauce and mix together well
• Serve and enjoy

This dish is low in saturated fat but for a treat you can added grated cheese. Tastes even better the next day reheated.