January 3, 2008: Chocolate Together With Zucchini Pasta

Zucchini #3 was devoted to a recipe from Ms Chocolate & Zucchini herself, Clotilde Dusoulier. She miraculously managed to prepare a savoury recipe featuring the championship ingredients of her weblog - pasta alongside zucchini slices in addition to a sprinkling of unsweetened cocoa nibs. This isn't all that's odd almost the dish. Clotilde too introduced me to the absorption method of cooking pasta. Similar to risotto, the pasta is thinly coated alongside olive stone oil inward the pan earlier absorbing H2O or stock until done. Rather than gradually adding the stock in addition to stirring continuously, most of the stock goes inward instantly in addition to the pasta needs exclusively an occasional, relaxed stir.

The utilisation of stock brings extra flavor to the pasta in addition to I liked adding the veges inward to laid upwardly alongside it, making it a one-pot meal. But the existent flavor revelation is the cocoa garnish! It adds a depth in addition to darkness to an otherwise mildly flavoured dish, playing the purpose I'd unremarkably paw to mushrooms. As much equally I dearest parmesan, it's best to add together it hither alongside a lite paw - its combination alongside cocoa nibs is surprisingly rich.

Clotilde posted this equally a meal-for-one on her weblog roughly fourth dimension ago, in addition to it's too printed inward her offset cookbook to serve iv (this is the version I referred to).


Chocolate in addition to zucchini pasta

3 tablespoons olive oil
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 onion, finely chopped
400-500g dried brusque pasta
6 cups stock (I exclusively truly used almost iv cups)
1 enormous zucchini (or iv small, or 2-3 medium), slicely finely into rounds
salt in addition to pepper
2 tablespoons cocoa nibs, coarsely crushed
grated parmesan

Heat the stone oil inward a large pan. Add the garlic in addition to onion, cooking for a yoke of minutes over medium heat. Next add together the pasta in addition to stir thoroughly in addition to thence that the pasta is evenly coated inward the oil. Pour inward stock to encompass the pasta in addition to laid aside the rest. Turn the oestrus downwards in addition to simmer the pasta alongside the lid on, giving it the occasional stir for fifty-fifty cooking. After almost v minutes add together the zucchini.

Continue simmering the pasta alongside occasional stirring. The pasta volition start absorbing the stock in addition to the stirring becomes to a greater extent than of import to ensure fifty-fifty absorption equally the liquid degree decreases. After almost v to a greater extent than minutes, exam the pasta for texture. Add to a greater extent than stock or H2O if the pasta is dry out but non finished, in addition to repeat the covered simmering in addition to stirring until it is al dente.

Season to gustatory modality in addition to serve sprinkled alongside cocoa nibs in addition to parmesan.