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    Red SaucePasta

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    A pale green bowl of fusilli in a thick orange-red tomato sauce, topped with sliced black olives4,700+ cooks
    ★ 4.5
    • Total time:50min
    • Your hands-on time:13min you
    • Longest hands-free stretch:21min free

    How upliance makes red sauce pasta, step by step

    Outside the jar · a bowl
    +5 min in the bowl
    CHOP
    STIR
    HEAT
    MASH
    READY
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    Red sauce pasta. Done.
    13 min32 min
    1. upliance, upliance

      This cooks it.

      • CHOP
      • SAUTÉ
      • PURÉE
      • STIR
      +−What is it?

      upliance is a steel jar on a smart base with a touchscreen. It weighs, chops, sautés, cooks, purées and stirs, and the screen tells you what to drop in next. Scroll to watch it make red sauce pasta from above, pasta and all, in one jar.

    2. You, 8 min

      Peel garlic, halve tomatoes

      +−How rough?

      Peel 15 garlic cloves (the slow bit). Pull the stem off a green chilli. Cut 4 tomatoes in half. Wash 15 basil leaves and pick off the stalks. That's all the knife work: the chopping and puréeing are the jar's job.

    3. You, 30 s

      Drop 1 of 4

      +−What goes in

      15 peeled garlic cloves and 1 green chilli, stem off. upliance weighs them as they land.

    4. Line drawing: jar with lid and crown on
      upliance, 10 s

      Chops the garlic fine

      +−No knife?

      No mincing 15 cloves by hand. With the lid and crown on, the blade chops the garlic and chilli fine in about 10 seconds. Scrape the sides down once it stops.

    5. You, 15 s

      Drop 2 of 4

      +−What goes in

      2½ tbsp pomace olive oil, straight on top of the chopped garlic.

    6. Line drawing: crown lifted off the lid
      upliance, 30 s

      Sautés the garlic

      +−Only 30 seconds?

      Take the crown off the lid. upliance sautés the garlic in the olive oil, stirring by itself, just long enough to take the raw edge off without browning it.

    7. You, 30 s

      Drop 3 of 4

      +−What goes in

      4 tomatoes, cut in half, and 15 fresh basil leaves. No fresh basil? Use 2 tsp dried basil instead, or leave it out. Don't swap in tulsi: it is a different, bitter leaf. Then pop the crown back on.

    8. Line drawing: jar with lid and crown on
      upliance, 10 min

      Cooks, then purées

      +−Then?

      upliance cooks the tomatoes and basil down for about 10 minutes, turning them every so often, then blitzes it all into a smooth sauce in the same jar. Scrape the sides down when it stops.

    9. You, 2 min

      Drop 4 of 4

      +−What goes in

      Everything else, at once: 160 g dry pasta (fusilli or penne), 350 ml water, 35 g butter and a 20 g cheese cube, then 1 tbsp ketchup, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, ½ tsp Kashmiri mirch, ½ tsp black pepper and 1 tbsp oregano seasoning. The pasta goes in dry: no second pot, no draining.

    10. upliance, 21 min

      Cooks the pasta in it

      21MIN FREEleave the kitchen
      +−What's the jar doing?

      With the crown off, upliance cooks the pasta right in the sauce for about 18 minutes, stirring slowly the whole time so nothing sticks, then lets it sit in the heat for the last 3 minutes to soak the sauce up. No pot to watch, no pasta water to drain.

    11. Line drawing: a spatula scraping the jar
      You, 1 min

      Tip out. Rest 5 min.

      +−Looks watery?

      Scrape the pasta out into a serving bowl and leave it for 5 minutes. If it looks a little watery at first, don't worry: the pasta drinks up the sauce as it sits and turns thick and saucy.

    12. You, 1 min

      Olives, chilli flakes. Serve.

      +−Finish

      Scatter 10 sliced black olives and ½ tsp chilli flakes on top and eat it hot.

    Where the time goes

    You: 13 min
    peel garlic · 4 drops · plate up+5 min waiting outside the jar, hands-off
    upliance: 32 min21 free
    chop · sauté · cook · purée · stir
    upliance: a steel jar on a smart base with a touchscreen

    You: 13 min. upliance: 32 min.

    Get uplianceWatch it on YouTube
    Full recipeIngredients by drop, every step, nutrition+−

    Red sauce pasta on autopilot. Lightly flavoured with garlic, steeped in tomatoes, this is a straight, no-frills red sauce pasta, and the pasta cooks right in the sauce: no second pot, no draining.

    Italian. Veg one pot meal. Serves 2. About 50 min start to finish; about 13 min of it is you. Cooked 4,700+ times on upliance.

    Ingredients (2 servings)

    Drop 1chopped by the jar

    • Garlic peeled15 cloves
    • Green chilli top stem removed1

    Drop 2sautéd

    • Pomace olive oil 2½ tbsp

    Drop 3cooked down, puréed

    • Tomato cut in 24
    • Fresh basil washed, stalks trimmed; or 2 tsp dried basil; not tulsi15 leaves

    Drop 4cooked ~21 min, stirring

    • Dry pasta fusilli or penne160 g
    • Water 350 ml
    • Butter 35 g
    • Cheese cube 20 g
    • Tomato ketchup 1 tbsp
    • Salt 1 tsp
    • Sugar 1 tsp
    • Kashmiri mirch ½ tsp
    • Black pepper ½ tsp
    • Oregano seasoning 1 tbsp

    To serve

    • Black olives sliced10
    • Chilli flakes ½ tsp

    Steps

    1. Prep (you, ~8 min). Peel 15 garlic cloves. Remove the stem from the green chilli. Cut 4 tomatoes in half. Wash 15 basil leaves and trim the stalks.
    2. Drop 1 (you, 30 s). Put the garlic and green chilli into the jar.
    3. upliance, 10 s. With the lid and crown on, it chops the garlic and chilli fine. Scrape down the sides.
    4. Drop 2 (you, 15 s). Add 2½ tbsp pomace olive oil.
    5. upliance, 30 s. Take the crown off the lid. It sautés the garlic in the oil, stirring by itself.
    6. Drop 3 (you, 30 s). Add the halved tomatoes and the basil (or 2 tsp dried basil; skip it rather than substitute anything else, and don't use tulsi). Put the crown back on.
    7. upliance, 10 min. It cooks the tomatoes and basil down, then purées them into a smooth sauce. Scrape down the sides.
    8. Drop 4 (you, ~2 min). Add 160 g dry fusilli or penne, 350 ml water, 35 g butter, a 20 g cheese cube, 1 tbsp ketchup, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar, ½ tsp Kashmiri mirch, ½ tsp black pepper and 1 tbsp oregano seasoning. Take the crown off.
    9. upliance, ~21 min. It cooks the pasta in the sauce, stirring slowly all the way, then lets it sit in the heat for the last few minutes to soak the sauce up. This is your free time: about 21 minutes away from the kitchen.
    10. Rest (you, 1 min, then 5 min wait). Scrape the pasta into a serving bowl and let it sit for 5 minutes. If it looks watery, the pasta absorbs the sauce as it rests and turns saucy.
    11. Serve (you, 1 min). Top with sliced black olives and chilli flakes. Eat hot.

    Nutrition per serving

    762 kcal · 72 g carbs · 14 g protein · 45 g fat.

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