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The perfect easy dinner for two – Fettuccine With Homemade Red Pasta Sauce And Fontinella Cheese. Ready in just 30 minutes and very easy to prepare. Great for a movie night at home. Traditional pasta with red sauce and the smooth slightly sharp taste of Stella® Fontinella Cheese. Scroll down for an exciting giveaway.

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Fettuccine With Homemade Red Pasta Sauce And Fontinella Cheese

Happy Sunday guys! I hope you are having a nice long holiday weekend! Mine is going well. Today is my husband’s birthday and we are celebrating!

We are having a Birthday party in the house later today.

So my plan for yesterday was to cook dinner for two of us and then go out to see a movie. Well, the going out part never happened. You guys know me – I love to bake, so I decided to bake the cake for the party. While, my plan was for a simple vanilla cake and fill it with blueberry whipped cream and then cover it with buttercream frosting, at the last moment I decided that I wanted to cover the cake in fondant. I’m not that experienced with fondant cakes and it took forever to make this one. It turned out amazing and I can’t wait to try it later today.

The whole “cake thing” kind of ruined our going out plans. But I did cook dinner and we watched a movie at home (Mad Max). This fettuccine with homemade red pasta sauce is one of my favorite recipes when I don’t have a lot of time to cook and also we both love pasta.

I did make my own sauce, but you can definitely use store bought if it is easier. There is no meat in this dish, but at times I just prefer to go meatless. Add some meat of your choice if you’d like.

My little secret to the wonderful taste of this pasta – I decided to use Stella® Fontinella Cheese, which added a little bit of sharpness and sweetness to the dish.

I love Stella® Italian Style Cheeses because I can easily find them in grocery stores in my area. With their great variety, they make the perfect addition to a lot of my recipes. Some of the products I think you’ll love are the Fontinella® (used in recipe feature), Rosemary Medium Asiago, Fontina, , Italian Sharp, Mozzarella, Parmesan, Mediterranean Parmesan, Provolone, Ricotta, Romano and Black Pepper Romano.

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5 from 6 votes

Fettuccine With Homemade Red Pasta Sauce And Fontinella Cheese

By Lyubomira from CookingLSL
Fettuccine With Homemade Red Pasta Sauce And Fontinella Cheese
Prep: 10 minutes
Cook: 20 minutes
Total: 30 minutes
Servings: 2

Ingredients 

  • For The Pasta Sauce:
  • one 15 oz can crushed or diced tomatoes
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp sugar or honey
  • 1/2 tsp oregano
  • 1/2 tsp dried basil, (or 3-4 fresh basil leaves)
  • 2 garlic cloves, , minced
  • 1/2 yellow onion, , chopped

For the pasta:

  • 4 oz fettuccine or pasta of your choice
  • 1 tbsp pine nuts, (optional)
  • Stells® Fontinella Cheese, , shredded

Instructions 

  • In a blender combine tomatoes, garlic and onion and pulse 3-4 times, until combined, but still chunky. Transfer to a saucepan, add salt, basil, oregano, sugar and olive oil and cook on medium until thickened (10-15 minutes). Stir frequently.
  • In the meantime, bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Cook pasta according to package directions. Drain well.
  • Transfer pasta to 2 bowls and divide sauce between them. Top with pine nuts (optional) and shredded Fontinella cheese. Serve and enjoy!

Nutrition

Calories: 432kcal, Carbohydrates: 54g, Protein: 11g, Fat: 20g, Saturated Fat: 2g, Cholesterol: 47mg, Sodium: 1326mg, Potassium: 540mg, Fiber: 4g, Sugar: 8g, Vitamin A: 280IU, Vitamin C: 13.4mg, Calcium: 70mg, Iron: 3.1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

Course: Main
Cuisine: Italian
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34 Comments

  1. Happy birthday to your husband, Mira! This fettuccini looks so fantastic, I love that homemade sauce! I definitely need to try making my own.

  2. Happy birthday to your hubby! And what a fabulous dish to celebrate! We watched Mad Max over the weekend too, except we just ordered some takeout. I would have much rather of had this!

  3. Hope your husband had a nice birthday, and what a nice wife you are to make him a homemade cake — it sounds like it must’ve been delicious! Going out to dinner is overrated, especially with pasta like this at home!

  4. Thwarted, Mira! Cakes do that to me too sometimes because they always take me longer to make then I plan for. But how fun that you’ve created something delicious! I hope you’ll be sharing it here! Sounds like a fun, long weekend! I looove pasta and this looks quick and delicious. I’ve not tried Fontenella cheese so will have to pick some up. Thank you for this my dear! 😀

    1. OMG Traci, you are so right! There is a picture of the cake on my IG, but yeah, I might share it here! Hope you had a great weekend, too!

  5. Hope your husband had a fantastic birthday, Mira! So sweet that you made him a cake and dinner. It looks like the perfect celebration meal! Love the homemade sauce!

  6. Are you gonna post the cake? Sounds like a total winner to me! Can’t wait to see it. And this pasta looks like a great birthday dinner.

  7. Happy belated birthday to your Hubs! Sounds like he had a great birthday, despite your elaborate cake taking over the day! Dinner and a movie IN is always better anyways! Love this fettuccine, Mira! It looks incredibly fresh and absolutely sensational! I have never heard of Stella Cheese, so I will have to check it out! Pinned! Cheers, girlfriend!

  8. This pasta looks right up my street! Homemade tomato sauce is always the best! Glad to hear your husband had a great birthday – I saw the cake you made and decorated on your FB page! It looks amazing – wish I could work that well with fondant! 😀

    1. Thanks so much Jess! I like using fondant, it is just that I don’t have much experience and it takes me forever 🙂

  9. I also got the Fresh Asiago and the Fontinella! <3 Their cheese is so good!!! And this fettuccine is definitely calling my name. (Also, love these bowls! Where did you get them?)