Pantry Pasta

Ingredients:
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • 80g-100g Dried pasta (fusilli)
  • 4 slices of cured ham; Parma ham/prosciutto/serrano ham
  • 8 pitted green olives (jarred)
  • 4 Sun-dried tomatoes
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 1 small white onion
  • 1 tbsp pesto (SPAR pesto al pomodori)
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 tsp chilli flakes
  • 75g finely grated Parmesan, 50 for the recipe, 25 to garnish
  • Fresh basil to garish
Method:
  1. Heat a frying pan on a medium heat, crisp up the slices of ham for 30-60 seconds, remove and set aside. Once cooled slice into wide pieces.
  2. Salt water and bring to a boil, add in the pasta.
  3. Add diced onion and finely sliced garlic to a pan on a medium heat with olive oil and cook until softened. Stir in a heaped tbsp of the pesto.
  4. Add sliced sundried tomatoes, along with a good drizzle of their oil along with the sliced olive.
  5. Stir in the seasonings, the chilli flakes and oregano.
  6. Drain the pasta, serving 50ml-100ml and add into the saucepan.
  7. Add 50g of the finely grated parmesan and combine. Plate and garnish with more parmesan and shards of the cured meat.
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