Mexican Pasta (sopa?)

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 cups of uncooked pasta (i use small pasta shells, you can use almost anything. if you use a long pasta like spaghetti, break)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/4 cup onion
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1/4 cup of shredded cheddar cheese
• water

Recipe

• 1 heat the olive oil in a 2 qt sauce pan.
• 2 put the uncooked pasta, onions and garlic in 2 qt sauce pan.
• 3 stir regularly until onions become translucent and pasta has brown spots on it where it has fried.
• 4 put tomato sauce and salt in sauce pan.
• 5 put enough water in saucepan to cover pasta completely but not too much.
• 6 stir then cover saucepan and let simmer for 5 minutes.
• 7 uncover saucepan and let water cook down until sauce nearly disappears, stirring ocassionally.
• 8 once the liquid has mostly disappeared, sprinkle with cheese, take off heat and cover with lid so cheese can melt.