Vodka Sauce Recipe Half And Half
This recipe for lightened up light vodka sauce is a healthier way to enjoy italian comfort food.
Vodka sauce recipe half and half. Add onions and garlic and cook until soft about 3 4 minutes. Step 1 in a skillet over medium heat saute onion in butter until slightly brown and soft. Or until heated through stirring occasionally.
Taste and if the sauce is too tangy for you stir in the brown sugar. Instructions in a large sauté pan heat olive oil over medium heat. Stir in half and half and vodka.
Bring to a simmer and cook for about 5 7 minutes. Stir in the half half and cook for another 2 minutes. Gently stir into vodka sauce and bring back to a simmer for about 5 minutes.
Remove 1 4 cup of pasta water and add to half and half to temper cream. Add pasta sauce bay leaf and crushed pepper. Add red pepper flakes and cook for 1 minute.
This easy homemade vodka sauce substitutes in fat free half and half for a lower fat but creamy sauce without any worries of it separating. Mix in crushed tomatoes and cook for 30 minutes. Add in freshly grated parmesan and torn basil leaves.
Stir in tomatoes and vodka and continue cooking the mixture for 5 7 minutes until slightly reduced stirring occasionally. So when you re introducing half and half into a hot sauce like you do when you re making our easy vodka sauce you have to make sure to temper it. Add the tomato mixture and salt and cook stirring occasionally until the sauce cooks down and thickens and the alcohol from the vodka evaporates about 10 minutes.