Another day, another meal, another Jamie's 30 minute challenge. This time I opted for the Spaghetti alla puttanesca which is served with crunchy salad, garlic bread and silky chocolate ganache.
This sounds amazing, but i was a bit concerned about how much hubby would enjoy this. He doesn't like tuna or olives, which are two key ingredients in the spaghetti, but you never know, he might surprise himself.
My kitchen started out with this assortment of ingredients:
We struggled again with the purchase of all the ingredients. Nothing too major this time, we couldn't find palmiers, so ended up substituting shortbread.
The garlic bread was the first task. I have made garlic bread before, but never like this. A ciabatta is sliced to form grooves and placed on some soggy greaseproof paper... sounds wierd, but stick with it. This is then drizzled with olive oil and then you crush over some garlic and scatter with chopped parsley. It gets bit messy, but you need to cover the ciabatta and ensure you get the ingredients into the grooves. This is then wrapped and placed in the oven.
It comes out looking like this, and it tastes delicious.
Once you have tried garlic bread this way there will be no going back.
The next job was to start melting the chocolate for the ganache, along with butter, cream, salt and clementine zest.
The spaghetti cooks in the saucepan underneath the chocolate bowl... less washing up which is always good, but it would probably be easier to use two saucepans.
The sauce is created in a frying pan adding the tuna oil, garlic, capers and anchovies. I love adding anchovies to a frying pan and watching them disappear - I am so easily pleased!
The chilies and parsley stalks are then added followed by the tuna itself, olives, cinnamon and tinned tomatoes (or passata if you are feeling posh).
Back to the ganache - pouring these into tea cups - Jamie suggests espresso cups, but I don't have any, so we used what we had. These are then served with the biscuits, like so:
Next it is one of my favourite bits, using the food processor. Fennel and radishes form the salad along with some olive oil and lemon juice, salt and pepper. I will always love how quick the processor makes a nice salad.
Then all that is left, is the spaghetti. Combining everything together to create this:
So, the completed meal was great. Both of us enjoyed the pasta, the salad was great - even for someone who thought they didn't like fennel and the garlic bread was fabulous and yes it was all done within 30 minutes again.
The only thing I wouldn't make again would be the ganache. I love chocolate, but this was just too much. I know we used bigger cups than suggested but I did adjust the recipe quantities for 2 servings so it should have been the right serving size. It was just way to rich for me. I managed a couple of spoonfuls. Hubby did much better and finished mine up later.
This sounds amazing, but i was a bit concerned about how much hubby would enjoy this. He doesn't like tuna or olives, which are two key ingredients in the spaghetti, but you never know, he might surprise himself.
My kitchen started out with this assortment of ingredients:
We struggled again with the purchase of all the ingredients. Nothing too major this time, we couldn't find palmiers, so ended up substituting shortbread.
The garlic bread was the first task. I have made garlic bread before, but never like this. A ciabatta is sliced to form grooves and placed on some soggy greaseproof paper... sounds wierd, but stick with it. This is then drizzled with olive oil and then you crush over some garlic and scatter with chopped parsley. It gets bit messy, but you need to cover the ciabatta and ensure you get the ingredients into the grooves. This is then wrapped and placed in the oven.
It comes out looking like this, and it tastes delicious.
Once you have tried garlic bread this way there will be no going back.
The next job was to start melting the chocolate for the ganache, along with butter, cream, salt and clementine zest.
The spaghetti cooks in the saucepan underneath the chocolate bowl... less washing up which is always good, but it would probably be easier to use two saucepans.
The sauce is created in a frying pan adding the tuna oil, garlic, capers and anchovies. I love adding anchovies to a frying pan and watching them disappear - I am so easily pleased!
The chilies and parsley stalks are then added followed by the tuna itself, olives, cinnamon and tinned tomatoes (or passata if you are feeling posh).
Back to the ganache - pouring these into tea cups - Jamie suggests espresso cups, but I don't have any, so we used what we had. These are then served with the biscuits, like so:
Next it is one of my favourite bits, using the food processor. Fennel and radishes form the salad along with some olive oil and lemon juice, salt and pepper. I will always love how quick the processor makes a nice salad.
Then all that is left, is the spaghetti. Combining everything together to create this:
So, the completed meal was great. Both of us enjoyed the pasta, the salad was great - even for someone who thought they didn't like fennel and the garlic bread was fabulous and yes it was all done within 30 minutes again.
The only thing I wouldn't make again would be the ganache. I love chocolate, but this was just too much. I know we used bigger cups than suggested but I did adjust the recipe quantities for 2 servings so it should have been the right serving size. It was just way to rich for me. I managed a couple of spoonfuls. Hubby did much better and finished mine up later.
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