Peas and Pasta

Peas and  Pasta

My husbands favorite quick  to make one our home town dishes healthy food for the kids they learn to eat vegetables this way

1 pound pasta of your choice. I prefer  small size or broken spaghetti. so you can eat with a spoon
	1 large clove of garlic, diced
	2-3 olive oil
if you want to make something fast hard day at work or late from work just use 2 cans of peas	1 medium to large onion, chopped
	2 cups frozen green peas, the tiny ones are best
	salt to tastes
	pepper to taste
	a splash (2-3 tablespoons)   water
	if you want you can add diced ham or bacon with the onions

Pasta with Lentils

Pasta with Lentils  was a favorite in our home kids love it and good source  of iron I always made sure that my children had legumes once a week best way to make it with pasta kids like pastas you can use any one you like with this dish or on its own my grandson loves it

 it

Ingredients

               

• 1 onion (chopped)
• 1 tomato (seeded chopped)
• 1 carrot (chopped)
• 1 celery (stalk chopped)
• 3 garlic cloves (chopped)

                        

• 71/2 cups water
• 13/4 cups lentils (rinsed drained)
• 500 gr         fusilli (freshly cooked)  or what you pasta               
• olive oil

 

Saute onion, tomato, carrot, celery, garlic In a large pot Saute 6 minutes. Add water and lentils; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium. Simmer until lentils are tender and mixture thickens, stirring often, about 45 minutes. Mix in pasta; simmering 2 minutes. Season with salt and pepper

Pasta and potatoes

This soup is another classic Bari dish. If you ask a Barese what their favourite dishes 

• 500g potatoes, peeled and diced
• 200g small pasta
• 100g   tinned chopped tomatoes
• 1 celery heart, chopped
• 1 clove  garlic,  squashed (but still whole)
• olive oil
• salt and pepper

1. Brown the garlic in 4 tablespoons of olive oil. Remove the garlic and discard.
2. Add the potatoes and celery and cook for a couple of minutes.
3. Add the tomatoes and season with salt and pepper
4. Add water so that all the ingredients are covered
5. Cook until the potatoes are starting to fall apart.
6. Half cook the pasta in plenty of salted boiling water
7. Add the pasta to the potato mixture and continue cooking until done.
8. If the soup is too thick, add a little of the pasta cooking liquid.

Orecchiette pasta alla Pugliese

Orecchiette pasta alla Pugliese

Making orecchiette pasta

Orecchiette  barese style pasta ears traditional recipe from Puglia. Easy and delicious;
you can make your own pasta or buy it in local super market,# de,cecco,# barilla pastsa # fortinos  super markets

!500g of orecchiette  pasta ideally fresh,mince garlic, 200g of tomato pulp, bunch of fresh basil, olive oil, grated pecorino cheese, salt, pepper, dried hot pepper to taste.

making it

saute mince garlic with the olive oil. 

Add the tomato, basil, salt,  and cook for 5 minutes.

Prepare the pasta until it is 'al dente'.

Drain and thrown it into the pan with the other ingredients.

Mix with the any grated cheese you prefer cheese and serve immediately

tip little pasta water in sauce, put pasta in sauce pan to cook to blend  flavors ,few mins i make sauce in a wok or big frying pan to do that

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Stuffed Mussels

Stuffed mussels are a really tasty dish and a great way to cook these molluscs, the main ingredient in many other recipes from Puglia, the filling is made with bread crumbs, parsley, garlic, pepper, cheese and eggs and is used to stuff the mussels open from raw.

Ingredients

• 1 kg. mussels
• 1 lt. tomato sauce
• 400 gr. bread crumbs
• 2 eggs
• 3 cloves garlic
• 60 gr. grated  cheese
• chopped parsley to taste
• salt to taste
• pepper to taste
• extra virgin olive oil to taste

Instructions

1. To prepare the stuffed mussels, started to soak the bread in water and in the meantime chopped parsley and 2 cloves of garlic.
2. Once softened, squeeze well the bread crumbs and add to the grated  cheese, salt, pepper, eggs and parsley and minced garlic before.
3. Mix the ingredients with your hands until the dough is smooth and compact that you will leave aside.
4. Now scrape and wash the mussels raw and open them holding the fruit on one side and not doing completely separate the two halves.
5. Once all the mussels open, take small amount of dough and stuffed every single mussel to finish them.
6. After filling, take each mussel and close it with kitchen twine or cotton, eliminating any excess dough that comes out. NOTE: If you use cotton  sewing thread,  several times around the mussel, tightening and knotting, if used instead of the string, just one lap around the mussel.
7. Remember to remove all excess dough before cooking the mussels so as not to soil the sauce.
8. In a pan, put a clove of garlic and extra virgin olive oil, garlic and let brown, add the tomato puree.
9. As soon as the sauce begins to boil, add the mussels one by one gently with a lid and simmer over low heat for about 25 minutes.
10. Serve the mussels and stuffed with a boxcutter or a pair of scissors cut the thread. The sauce can taste it with the excellent Altamura bread, or use it to dress pasta.

. Spaghetti with mussels

Spaghetti with mussels

 

Ingredients

• 400 gr. Spaghetti
• 1.5 kg. mussels 
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
• pepper to taste
• 7 tablespoons olive oil

Instructions

1. To prepare spaghetti with mussels started by cleaning the mussels: remove the fine linen, scrape the surface with  a knife to remove the barnacles and wash them thoroughly under running water to remove all impurities.
2. Open them gently forcing the shell with a knife, collecting the water that the mussels will lose and being careful not to damage the fruit. An alternative to open them  put the mussels in a pot with a lid over high heat, without water  for a few minutes: heat the mussels begin to open  But beware: everything must be done in a very short time, 
3. In a wok pour 5 tablespoons of olive oil and then fry the chopped garlic with a tablespoon of parsley.
4. Fry until lightly brown the garlic and let down in both the mussels that their water (which will be salting seasoning) 
5. Cook for a few minutes over medium heat.
6. Put water on the stove, add salt and cook the spaghetti al dente and draining them by taking a ladle of cooking water.
7. Pour into the wok and finish cooking with the sauce stirring for a few minutes. If necessary, add a little of the cooking water aside earlier to moisten.
8. Complete with a handful of black pepper and serve. 

best tomateo sauce Bari style

Ingredients                         best tomato sauce Bari style

• 2 bottles sauce
• 800 gr. peeled tomatoes
• 130 ml. olive oil
• 1 medium white onion
• 1 cup white wine
• 6 brasciole or piece veal or beef
• 12 fried meatballs
• 6 pieces pork choice
• 6 pcs lamb choice
• 300 gr. uncooked bacon into chunks
• 2 cups water
• 5/6 leaves basil
• salt to taste
• pepper to taste

Instructions

1. We put in a saucepan the oil, the chopped onion, the brasciole, pieces of pork and lamb, bacon and let cook over high heat for a long time turning the meat occasionally until everything is well colored 
2. At this point, add the white wine and   cook for 5 min
3. Then add the peeled tomato, sauce, 2 cups water, basil, salt and pepper and let simmer for at least 3-4 hours stirring occasionally with a wooden  it won;t  sticking to the pan until it is a thick gravy and the oil will come to the surface.
4. 15 minutes before turning off the heat in the sauce also drop the fried meat balls