Saturday 15 October 2011

260: Courgette Linguine, nearly a Silver Spoon recipe

I'm a dreadful skim reader. Or conversely, I'm a really good skim reader; I'm really fast.... but sometimes there's a downside in terms on accuracy. And here's an example of one, where I set out to faithfully follow a recipe but ended up doing something entirely different. Sufficiently nice though that I'll probably cook it again, like this in any case.

I was having a flick through Silver Spoon, and I saw 'Courgette Spaghetti'; had a quick read of the ingredients - skipping past the celeery - and thought would be a fine fit to the stuff I'd got.

Ingredients (celery, and tinned instead of plum tomatoes apart, faithful to Silver Spoon):
  • 1 tin of tinned tomatoes, roughly chopped, plus a 1/2 a tin of water, rinsed round the tin
  • 1 big onion, finely diced
  • 2 cloves garlic finely diced
  • 3 medium courgettes, sliced 1cm across
  • 250gs Linguine
  • 125gs mozzarella, cut in to 1cm cubes
  • 50gs Parmesan, grated
  • 8 small sage leaves, chopped
Method (where I pretty much wnet my own way):
  • Using a big, big pan slowly fry the onion, adding the garlic
  • Add the tomatoes & sage and bring to a robust simmer
  • Add the courgettes, cover and continue to bubble for 15-20 minutes or so until the courgettes feel cooked. Test and salt and pepper as you like it
  • Meanwhile cook the linguine, drain
  • Add the linguine to the tomatoes and stir through (which is the reason for using a big pan),
  • Add the mozarella and stir a bit more - leaving some strings and some lumpy bits
  • Serve sprinkling parmesan on top
Dead tasty, quick, really easy.


The proper recipe included plum tomatoes & celeery and the onion & sage are are cooked and then removed. Just being used for flavour... but I'd skimmed that bit and already chopped them, so taking them back out wasn't going to happen.

4 comments:

  1. I have half a packet of mozzarella loitering in the fridge. I might try something like this on Monday. It looks good. I can't get on with my copy of Silver Spoon, I look at it and then can never find anything I want to cook.

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  2. Not crazy on tomato sauces but this does look very good and I have a bucket load of courgettes to eat!

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  3. Kath, I know what you mean about Silver Spoon; it's a tricky read I do like a picture of the end result; which is pretty tight with. If I say it's a tricky read, it gives me a good excuse for such a poor attempt at following a recipe.

    Dom, not like tomato-saucy recipes? Strange fellow! This one is pretty cheesy, or at least it was when I made it.

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  4. Ah I see what you mean; they are quite similar! It does look gorgeous though :)

    I've never browsed any Silver Spoon recipes before... on to their website now, thanks!

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