Chorizo Pasta

This pasta dish can be prepared all in the space of time it takes the pasta to cook. Its so simple, yet a really comforting dish, for those stressed out evenings after work. In my books you can never have enough pasta!!

Serves 2

Ingredients

• 120g dried penne
• 1 large spicy chorizo sausage, cut into chucky slices
• ½ can of tinned peeled tomatoes
• ½ glass white wine
• 1 tbsp of low fat cream cheese
• 1 chopped garlic clove
• Juice of half a lemon
• Salt and pepper
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tbsp chopped flat leaf parsley

Method

1. Put the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water and cook until al dente
2. In a frying pan on a medium heat, sauté the garlic and chorizo, letting the pink oils run from the chorizo
3. Add the white wine and allow to bubble for a minute
4. Add the tomatoes and sugar and allow to cook for 3-4 minutes
5. Add the cream cheese (I use Philadelphia Extra Light cause I’m a wuss) and the lemon juice
6. Season with salt and pepper
7. Add 2 -3 tbsp of pasta cooking liquid
8. Drain the pasta and add to the sauce and sprinkle with the chopped herbs