Strawberry pasta with sour cream: the sweet June dinner, in 20 minutes
The dinner Polish children eat in June and adults remember fondly: wide noodles tossed with strawberries sugared and barely warmed, a spoon of sweetened sour cream on top. The berries aren't cooked, only heated for two or three minutes so they release their juice and stay fruit rather than jam. A handful of ingredients, twenty minutes.
Your own work in that: 20 min.
- Strawberries 10 min
- Pasta and serving 10 min
Step by step
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Sugar the strawberries
Put a pot of salted water on for the pasta. Wash the strawberries before hulling them (hulled, they soak up water), dry, hull and halve them; quarter the very large ones. Sprinkle with 3–4 tablespoons of sugar, depending on how sweet the fruit is, and leave for a few minutes.
Ingredients: 700 g strawberries · 4 tbsp sugar · 400 g wide egg noodles or farfalle · 20 g butter · 1 tsp salt
TipAlways wash strawberries whole, with their hulls. Hulled, they draw water in where the hull was, turn watery and lose their aroma.
Washed whole, then hulled and halved
Warm them, don't cook them
Put half the sugared strawberries in a small pan and warm over medium heat 2–3 minutes, just until they release juice and the sugar dissolves. Crush them with a fork into a sauce. Leave the other half raw: that is what brings freshness and pieces.
TipCooked longer, strawberries lose their aroma and turn into jam. Two minutes is enough; warm sauce plus raw fruit is the whole idea of this dish.
Two minutes, juice released, crushed with a fork
Cook the pasta
Drop the pasta into the boiling salted water and cook until al dente, per the packet. Drain and toss with the butter so it doesn't stick.
Al dente, with butter
Combine and serve
Toss the warm pasta with the strawberry sauce and the raw fruit. Stir the sour cream with a tablespoon of sugar and the vanilla sugar and spoon it over each portion. Serve at once, warm: strawberry pasta doesn't wait.
Ingredients: 200 g sour cream, 18 % · 1 tbsp sugar · 1 tsp vanilla sugar
Sauce, raw fruit, sweet cream
Before you start
With curd cheese
Instead of sour cream, 200 g curd cheese crumbled with a fork and mixed with 2 tablespoons of sour cream: more filling and higher in protein, the dinner version.
With other fruit
The same method with raspberries (2 minutes), blueberries (3 minutes) or frozen strawberries thawed and drained of excess juice.
How much sugar
Ripe June field strawberries need about 2 tablespoons, less sweet shop-bought ones up to 5. Always sweeten after tasting the fruit, never in advance.
Nutrition
per 100 gStep photos are computer-generated from the recipe.
