Wednesday 7 September 2011

'Simple beef pasta'

I'm always looking for new pasta dishes for the children. This dish was a massive hit yesterday when I made it for the children.

Ingredients:

240g Sirloin steak (I used Aberdeen reared steak)
200g Dry Fuesli pasta (Pasta as rule doubles in weight once cooked. Adult portion of cooked pasta is about 200g and a 100g for a child)
1 packet of baby asparagus
1 red pepper
10 Basil leaves
I banana shallot diced
2 cloves of garlic crushed
25g butter
Paremsan

Method:

  1. Start by putting a pan of water onto boil for he pasta and asparagus
  2. Trim the steak of the fat an cut into thin strips across the beef and then cut thise strips into 2 strips
  3. Diced the shallot
  4. Peel and crush the garlic
  5. Thinly slice the pepper
  6. By this time the water will be boiling - cook the asparagus for about 3 minutes.
  7. Now start cooking the rest of the ingredients in a wok or big non stick frying pan
  8. Fry the sliced pepper on a medium heat then;
  9. Garlic & onion sweat for a futher 2 minutes
  10. Then flash fry the beef strips just so the beef are brown on the outside
  11. Turn heat down and attend to the asparagus - take out of water and put to one side
  12. Then using the same water cook the pasta. The pasta will only take about 6-8 minutes to cook.
  13. Chop the asparagus into 3 pieces each
  14. Shred the basil leaves finely
  15. Once the pasta is cooked strain keeping hot and add straight into the pan
  16. Then add the shredded basil and cut asparagus
  17. finsih with the butter and season
  18. To serve shave or grate parmesan to taste



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