Pasta fasool sw

Ingredients for green - free ( count bacon as HEB) red - pasta, potatoes AND beans. don't be silly! serves 4

2 teaspoons lazy garlic
250g pack bacon chopped( 4 HEBs)
1 carrot chopped fairly small
2 medium potatoes peeled and chopped fairly small
1 celery stick, chopped
1 large tomato, peeled, chopped and deseeded
pinch dried chilli flakes t otaste
1 litre chicken stock made with bovril
200g shortish pasta ( penne etc)
tim borlotti beans, drained and rinsed(recipe said 410g, i used a 300g)
2 basil leaves, torn.

Easy

Directions

1. FIrst, put the kettle on. Make a shallow x in the bottom of your tomato, put it in a dish and pour boiling water over it. LEave for 5-10 mins. The skin will come away beautifully.

2. Fry the garlic in frylight and add the bacon. Cook for a few mins and add all the fresh vegetables. Cook a few more minutes and add the chilli. Stir well and add the stock. Bring to the boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Tip in the raw pasta and half the beans. Mash the rest of the beans in a bowl with te back of a spoon and add with the torn basil leaves. Simmer until the pasta is cooked. Let it cool a bit before serving so that the sauce thickens. Also yummy cold. This is really good! It's also quite forgiving so don't worry over much about quantities of veg, it's handy for using stuff up.

main courses November 27, 2011 19:25