Of the hundreds of ways to dress linguine, this quick and easy sauce is bound to become the most requested in your house. It bursts with fresh-from-the-garden flavour.
Parmesan cheese is not truly vegetarian, as it contains animal rennet. To make this dish 100% vegetarian, omit the cheese or find a suitable vegetarian substitute made without animal rennet. In supermarkets look for the 'parmesan style hard cheeses' which are suitable for vegetarians.
*Place the tomato topping on toasted rounds of ciabatta and serve as an appetiser.
*Spoon the tomato topping over any green salad.
*Use the tomato mixture to fill baked jacket potatoes.
*One serving of the fresh tomatoes in this dish supplies more than a day's requirement of vitamin C.
*Prolonged heating of foods can cause them to lose some of their nutrients. Only in rare cases does cooking enhance nutrition. In general, try to shorten your cooking times whenever possible. This recipe is a good example of how to preserve all the nutrients of fresh produce with no cooking.