Sun Dried Tomato Cream Sauce

Looking for a sauce that makes anything taste irresistible? Try this sun dried tomato cream sauce! It’s bursting with rich, creamy flavor with garlic, spinach, and earthy, bright bursts from tomatoes. Try it with pasta as a killer sauce, but it’s also great with chicken, salmon or other fish. Here’s how to make this simple sauce recipe!

Ingredients in sun dried tomato cream sauce

This sun dried tomato cream sauce is simple and flavorful: the type of essential recipe you can whip out to impress guests or to make a splash on a weeknight. There’s a relatively short ingredient list, and you can leave out the spinach if you like! The most important ingredient is the cream: all you need is ¼ cup to add richness and body. Here’s what you’ll need:

Salted butter Garlic Fresh or dried thyme Milk Heavy cream Parmesan cheese Sun dried tomatoes, packed in oil Spinach All-purpose flour Salt and pepper

Tips for making sun dried tomato sauce

This sauce is quick and simple to whip up. The main thing to note for serving is that you’ll cook the pasta, chicken or fish separately, then make the sauce, then add them back to the sauce.

Use julienne cut tomatoes, or thinly slice them. We like using oil packed sun dried tomatoes because they’re plump and moist. If you get the jar that’s already sliced, it simplifies the sauce! You’ll add flour as a thickener after simmering the sauce. A standard cheese or cream sauce starts with a roux, a mixture of flour and butter that thickens cheese sauces. This sauce is a little different. While it does contain flour as a thickener, you’ll add it at the end of simmering. For a gluten-free version, use cornstarch or gluten-free 1 for 1 flour. This helps to thicken and add body to the sauce.

Ways to serve this sauce

Sun dried tomato cream sauce makes an excellent meal when paired with pasta, chicken, fish, or other seafood! Here are a few pointers for how to pair the sauce with each protein:

Pair with 8 ounces pasta. You can use short cut noodles like penne or rigatoni (as we did here), or long noodles like spaghetti or linguine. Add chicken. Make this sauce with chicken for a stunning 1-pan meal. Use Step 1 and 2 from this Garlic Chicken recipe to cook the chicken, set it aside, then make the sauce and add the chicken back to the pan! Add salmon. Same idea as above! Make this Pan Seared Salmon recipe, set aside, then make the sauce and add back the salmon. Serve with scallops. Scallops are great with this sauce! Make these Pan Seared Scallops, set aside, then add back to the sauce and warm before serving.

More sauce recipes

Want more tasty sauces? Here are a few more easy sauce recipes to try:

Go creamy with Tzatziki Sauce, Buffalo Ranch, or Garlic Aioli Try zingy Lemon Pepper Sauce, Lemon Butter Sauce or Lemon Caper Sauce Go for Garlic Butter Sauce or Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce Make bright green Chimichurri Sauce or creamy red Roasted Red Pepper Sauce Make Peanut Sauce or Ponzu Sauce