SQUISHED TOMATO PASTA SAUCE

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Help kids aged 3-6 make their own superhealthy fresh tomato sauce to go with pasta

Provided by Good Food team

Time 30m

Number Of Ingredients 8

Ingredients

12 cherry tomatoes
2 ordinary tomatoes , halved
4 basil leaves
small bunch chives
8 black or green olives , stoned (optional)
olive oil , for drizzling
200g pasta , cooked and kept warm
cheddar or parmesan , grated

Steps:

Put the cherry tomatoes into a large bowl, reach down into the bowl and squeeze each one hard until it bursts (mind out, they'll squirt!). Pull the tomatoes into pieces.
Squeeze the halved tomatoes on a lemon squeezer to make as much juice as you can. Pour this into the bowl. ( Grown-ups, the squeezed halves can be used up in a stew or soup.)
Snip the basil and chives into the bowl using your scissors, or tear them into pieces. Then, if you are using them, snip or pull the olives in half and throw them in, too.
Add a dribble of olive oil, then ask your grown-up helper to put the cooked pasta into two bowls, spoon your sauce on top and sprinkle with the cheese

Nutrition Facts : Calories 472 calories, Fat 12 grams fat, SaturatedFat 4 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 80 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 7 grams sugar, Fiber 5 grams fiber, Protein 17 grams protein, Sodium 0.34 milligram of sodium