Comfort Food For Active Women
Sample this recipe from autumn-appropriate cookbook ADVENTURES IN COMFORT FOOD and keep yourself fueled and satisfied through these fall days.
Aunt Fluffie’s Pasta
Serves 2
This is a “cream of leftovers” dish that you can throw together on a weeknight. Still, it’s memorable. It’s got all the good stuff: browned butter, caramelized onion, lemon and cheese; cauliflower is the star.
INGREDIENTS
1 1/2 cup/350 g cauliflower, cut into forkfuls stick of butter (yup)
1/2 lb/225 g pasta, preferably bowties, cooked
1/2 red onion, diced
2 tsp fresh garlic, minced
1/2 cup/40 g parsley, coarsely chopped
1/2 lemon
salt, pepper
Romano or parmesan cheese, grated
METHOD
Place a heavy 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Put in butter, onions, garlic and cauliflower. Partially cover the pan and simultaneously brown the butter, caramelize the onions and get the cauliflower cooked. It will take around 10 minutes. They are all kind of racing each other. If the onions are browning but the cauliflower isn’t tender, add a splash of white wine or water and cover until the cauliflower is steamed through.
Add the noodles and stir; heat through. Add parsley, squeeze in the lemon and stir. Turn the pasta out onto a warm platter. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and cheese.
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Recipe from ADVENTURES IN COMFORT FOOD: Incredible, Delicious and New Recipes From a Unique, Small-Town Restaurant, by Kerry Alteiro, with Katherine Gaudet
Page Street Publishing/October 2014
