When it comes to comfort food all over the world, pasta may be on the top-ten list already. Apart from the fact that this is such a filling dish, it also has that nostalgic appeal since most people have had this for dinner cooked by their mothers when they were still very young.

Today, there are more than a hundred types of pasta from the more commonly used spaghetti, fettucini and lasagna to those with fun shapes like wagon wheels and spirals. Of course, pasta would not be as interesting or delectable without the sauce.

Although pasta with the traditional tomato sauce originated in Italy, nearly everyone in the planet has tried it or has his or her own version of it today.