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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Main Dishes => Topic started by: maddy on March 09, 2010, 12:09:27 am
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Name of Recipe: Cavatini (a recipe my Dad created years ago)
Number of People: easily 5
Ingredients:
2 cloves garlic
2 onions quartered
1 large red capsicum (deseeded) or 2 smaller ones - quartered
200g chopped bacon
1/2 mc olive oil
1 tin mushroom in butter sauce
1 tin diced tomato
2 tsp smoked paprika
1 lebanese cucumber-or use a continental (leave skin on)
2tsp sugar
1/3 cup tomato sauce
50g parmesan cheese
Preparation:
Grate parmesan first, then set aside.
Place garlic & onions into *: chop 5 secs/speed 7
Add capsicum and chop 3 secs/speed4
Scrape down *: and add oil & chopped bacon, and saute 5 minutes/varoma temp./ :-: speed 1
Meanwhile, thinly slice the cucumber (using a v-slicer makes it quick), and set aside.
Once bacon mix has finished cooking, add the tinned tomato, mushroom in butter sauce, paprika, and sugar. Cook 5 min/100c/ :-: speed 1.
When finished, add the sliced cucumber, and tomato sauce. Cook 12 mins/100c/ :-: speed 1. check the cucumber has softened.
* Use the spatula in the beginning to mix in the cucumber*
I then mixed in the parmesan cheese, once sauce finished cooking, mixing for 1 minute/ :-: speed 1
I usually cook penne pasta (500g) for this sauce. Once I drain the pasta, I put back in pot and stir this sauce into the same pot
Photos:
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Tips/Hints:
This makes a full jug of sauce.
If you were wanting to freeze some sauce....I would leave out the cucumber, and simmer it in the sauce when you needed it.
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Maddy, thanks for this recipe, it looks tasty as well as healthy.
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I agree, nice one maddy.
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Thanks Maddy - think that zucchini would work instead of cucumber? Like the smoked paprika. Spanish/Italian ancestry ?
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Thanks Maddy - think that zucchini would work instead of cucumber? Like the smoked paprika. Spanish/Italian ancestry ?
Surprisingly the cucumber works well, as it holds together better in sauce, and have tried zucchini....but liked the cucumber taste much more ;)
My parents are from Holland & Scotland, and ancestry is French. A licorice all-sorts!
What amuses people is my Dad the dutchman....plays the bagpipes :)
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LOL - thought with an Italian type recipe and smoked paprika !
Think there are few Dutch bagpipe players and the Greeks also ?
Cucumber certainly is OK cooked like this - just thought zucchini may substitute, but it may soften more and certainly not flavoursome. Ta
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Interesting flavours Maddy.
Does anyone else remember when chinese take away meant heaps of cooked cucumber in big chunks? I think it was in every dish.