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.