Penne alla Vodka (Penne in Vodka Sauce)

Vodka sauce is a delicious pink-colored sauce. Although you can't taste the vodka since the alcohol is burned off in the cooking process, it still helps to bring out otherwise inaccessible flavors in tomatoes. The result is rich, delicious flavors in an amazing, thick sauce.

Penne alla Vodka (Penne in Vodka Sauce)

1.5 cups vodka
3 x 28-32 oz. cans of plum tomatoes (crushed by hand)
1.5 cups cup heavy cream
2.5 cups parmesan cheese (shredded or grated)
14 cloves garlic, chopped
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
salt
2 tablespoons tomato paste
2 pounds penne pasta

Allow water to come to a boil in a large pasta pot.

Saute garlic in olive oil until tender. Then, add tomatoes, tomato paste, salt, and vodka, and simmer for 20-30 minutes, and until the alcohol has boiled away.

In the pasta pot, once water has come to a boil, add pasta.

Then, add heavy cream, stir, and fold in parmesan cheese.

Add pasta to the sauce, stir.