Review- Creamy Tomato & Salami Fettuccine- EDC

[quirkycooking]

We love this one too!  I don't use salami when I make it for our family - or cream because I can't eat dairy.  I use soy milk or thick rice-almond milk instead of the cream, and add extra veges and some tomato paste and mixed herbs.  Yum!

[brazen20au]

last night dh made it and it was a bit so so he used capsicums and mushrooms, and yoghurt instead of cream, plus GF fettucine. it was sooo thick and a bit bland

[judydawn]

 Mama-bell I would be interested to read Chelle's 101 versions of this recipe.  Maybe she could come on and list them for the rest of us 

[maddy]

Made this tonight, but instead of salami I added sliced smoked chicken breasts, tomatoes, tomato pesto, capsicum & celery.
You really could add anything to it.

[cookie1]

Yum.

[Thermomixer]

Good work - smoked chicken and avo - classic!  Yum.

[merlot]

LOL! Bel! I will have to find the other thread where i listed my 101 versions! hehehe.  I would not be exaggerating if i said i used this recpie twice a week and every time it's different

will post a few versions later....

[merlot]

Creamy Vege Risotto (with freekah)
recipe based on the CT&SF recipe from the EDC.

1 whole onion
1 clove garlic
handful herbs (parsley, oregano, thyme)
1 zucchini
half red capsicum
tablespoon oil
150ml cream (i used lactose free cream but i think it tastes virtually the same)
300ml water
big tablespoon TMX vegie stock
half cup of freekah
half cup of white rice

when i added the cream and water i just cooked it for 3min before i added the freekah. I then cooked that for another 7min and then added the rice. Cooked for another 14min and then left it to sit for a 2 or 3min with the lid on before serving.


Another variation on the CT&SF recipe-
Creamy Pumpkin Pasta
onion and garlic the same
also added some butternut pumpkin, a lump about 10cm x 5cm x 2cm! No idea how much that is, and i chopped it up quite finely, added the oil and cooked for 3min on 100'C on slow.
Added the cream 100ml , water 300ml, vege stock and cooked for 5min on 100'C soft
Added more pumpkin, about the same amount again but this time diced by hand into 1cm cubes, added approx 2tablespoons olives, added 2 tablespoons pine nuts, added spiral pasta (maybe a cup or a bit more).
Cooked on 100'C for 8min on reverse soft.
served with basil, shaved parmesan, salt & pepper.

[merlot]

Creamy Pumpkin Risotto (with freekah)

1 clove garlic
1 onion
1 carrot
1 zucchini
1 tomato, quartered
1+half cups diced pumpkin
100ml plain yoghurt
400ml water
1 tablespoon vegetable stock
handful of whole almonds
half cup freekah
half cup arborio rice

Chop garlic and onion finely.
Add carrot and zucchini, chop on speed 5 for several seconds. Add oil and cook on 100'C for 3min on speed 1.
Add water, yoghurt, stock, tomato and pumpkin. Cook on 100'C for 5min on speed 1.
Add almonds and freekah and cook at 100'C for another 7min on reverse speed 1.
Add arborio rice and cook at 100'C for another 14min on reverse speed soft.
Leave it to sit for a couple of minutes with the lid on before serving.

[merlot]

i don't have any others already typed up i don't think... i'll have another look in some other threads...

but i seriously use this recipe ALL the time.
I just open the fridge and choose any combo of vegies or nuts,
then see what i feel like as far as rice, fettucine, lentils, freekah, spiral pasta, even chunky left over roast potatoes!!! and add them in.
and then choose natural yoghurt (made in TMX) or cream, or leftover vege soup, pesto, or anything and ta-da!
dinner.

it has never not worked regardless of what i have stuck in there.

[Thermomixer]

Good work merlot - good to see you back

[meganjane]

Tenina should check this thread and mention how variations can be done.
Thanks so much merlot!

[merlot]

i just found mention of another combo i used a while back. sorry for not having quantities but i don't really use them anymore now that i am so familiar with this recipe base. I just stick it all in.... but my comment in another forum was-

I did cauliflower, zucchini, tomato, salami, quinoa, and spiral pasta. B****y yum. The kids even ate it.

i imagine i would have used about a half a cup of quinoa and maybe 3/4 cup spiral pasta.  My scales were broken for the longest time so i stopped weighing things.

[merlot]

tonight's effort was-
all the same for cream, water, fettucine and the general method but the vegies in there were-

1 onion
1 zucchini
1 small green capsicum
half a smallish eggplant
1 carrot

then 5 tomatoes

i did not use vegie stock cos i ran out.

i really like the eggplant flavour  

[cookie1]

Thanks for these Merlot. After reading about the freekah I bought some this morning and can't wait to try it.