So Simple but So Delicious!

Alright, this is a recipe to cook a delicious meal with potatoes only, and it is not mashed potatoes.

Ingredients

1000 grams / 35 oz potatoes
1 big onion
1 clove of garlic
250 ml tomato juice
4 tablespoons of olive oil
1 tsp salt
A pinch of black pepper
A pinch of oregano
3 bay leaves

Method


In a copper add 1.5 inches of water and place it over heat to boil. Peel and chop the potatoes in small cubes. Chop the onion and the garlic cloves in very thin slices. Wait until the water starts to boil and add the potato cubes, onion, garlic, bay leaves and salt. Boil the ingredients for 35 min and then add the tomato juice, oil, pepper and oregano. Lower heat and boil for 15 min more. That’ it! You made a filling and tasty meal.

For more taste you can add some Tabasco® drops or half tsp of Boukovo after the meal is cooked.

Serving proposition

You can serve this delicious dish with some slices of cheese (Greek Feta is best, but you can use any hard and salty cheese you wish, like Regato, Grana Padano etc.)

Pasta with tuna sauce

Well, this one is a delicious and fast made recipe and I own it to my sister's imagination. I prefer it hot, but you can cook it without much chilli powder…

Ingredients

500 grams / 17 oz pasta (any type)
500 ml /17 fl oz tomato juice
140 grams /5 oz canned tuna in water (or in oil) drained
240 grams /8.5 oz drained canned mushrooms
5 tablespoons of oil (4 for the sauce and 1 for the pasta)
3 teaspoon salt (1 for the sauce and 2 for the pasta)
½ teaspoon garlic powder (or 1 thin chopped garlic clove)
A pinch of black pepper
A pinch of chilli powder (or 1 teaspoon if you prefer it hot), or boukovo, or Tabasco sauce.
A pinch of oregano

Method

Boil the pasta according to my “Pasta boiling secret”

In a saucepan, heat well the oil and sauté the mushrooms until they get shrunk and red. Add the canned tuna, garlic, black pepper, chilli powder (or the other hot ingredient you got) and oregano. Continue sautéing the mix for 5 min, stirring. Add the tomato juice and the salt (1 teaspoon). Lower heat and simmer for 7- 9 min.

That’s all. Serve in deep plate with the sauce on top, chopsticks or fork…

Alternatives:

If you haven’t got tuna at home, you can use canned mackerel
If you haven’t got tomato juice at home you can use ketchup with water (300 ml ketchup + 200 ml water)

Another Pasta tip:

Although I know that you prefer spaghetti, I try to use pasta that has holes in it… (I mean rigatoni, penne rigate, bucatini etc) when I combine them with sauce. I do this because sauce, fills up the gaps of the pasta and turns them more delicious than they already are… Jim.