Yesterday, I was trying to decide on what to cook for lunch. Since pasta recipes had been on my mind lately and besides I had a pack of vermicelli pasta lying in the cupboard, so I decided to just go for it. Although the original vermicelli pasta calls for pairing the pasta with tomato soup or any soup of choice, but I decided to cook the both separately.
I love this vermicelli pasta with tomato stew to bits because the meal came out pretty well, looking so hearty, tantalizing and full of all sorts of good things that are equally good for the body, soul and mind :D
BTW, vermicelli is an Italian conventional type of pasta that is similar to spaghetti but a lot more tiny than the other. Vermicelli pasta is sort of golden colour in appearance and very light weighted.
I tweaked the original recipe to work for me and the meal still turned out great. Besides, the ingredients can also be adjusted to fit your taste buds. Any type of spices, herbs, stock cubes can also be used in this recipe.
The tomato stew came out well to form a really delicious toppings on the vermicelli pasta, which was filled with flavour, aroma and taste for your utmost delight. A mix of spices for flavour and some bay leaves for aroma were all held together with some chopped tomatoes, onions and corned beef!!!
The ingredients all fried up really thick and nice just as I expected it would turn out to be. Honestly, this is that quick and easy brunch or lunch that you can feel pretty happy eating on any day you feel comfortable doing so.
It all depends on what ingredients you like and have easily available in your kitchen. In as much you follow the recipe and keep the volume of water topping on the pasta approximately within the right proportion to avoid overcooking and then get the tomato stew rightly cooked, obviously I think both the pasta and stew will come out perfectly right on point ? ? ?
So play around with this recipe, use what you have easily available and come up with your own! Who knows, yours might even be more creative and tastier ?
I have no doubt that you will enjoy this meal because it sure was a winner for me.
Loads of Love From Blessing :D
Ingredients:
- 1 packet vermicelli pasta
- Bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 2 tinned chopped tomatoes
- Salt to taste
- 20ml vegetable oil
- 1 chicken stock cube
- 200ml chicken broth
- 1 onion (sliced)
- Ground chilli pepper to taste
- 1 tinned corned beef
Instructions:
- Add the vermicelli pasta in a pot of boiling water and allow to parboil for 5 mins.
- Bring down from heat and wash off the starchy water then add back the vermicelli pasta into a pot, add hot water slightly above the pasta and salt to taste.
- Stir the pasta and allow to cook until tender but don't allow the pasta to overcook.
- Meanwhile slightly heat up the vegetable oil in a saucepan and stir in the onions.
- Afterwards, add the chopped tomatoes and continue stirring until the tomatoes are slightly dried and cooked.
- Then add the meat broth, corned beef, spices and the remaining ingredients.
- Stir the mixture and allow the stew to cook until done then bring down from heat.
- Serve the cooked vermicelli pasta with the tomato stew together.
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