Picky Eater's Pasta

Picky Eater's Pasta


Ingredients:


1 lb spaghetti, uncooked

2 boxes chicken broth

2 T bacon grease or olive oil

1 small onion, diced

1 large carrot, diced

6 cloves garlic, peeled and diced

1/2 lb bacon (Cut into bite-sized pieces) or pork or sausage or whatever your family will eat or nothing.

Pour broth into saucepan and heat just to boiling. Turn down heat and keep warm.

In large pan (I use my Calphalon everyday pan for this) brown the bacon if that is what you are using. Then remove the bacon and save the grease in the pan. In the same pan, saute onion, carrot and garlic until onions are translucent. At this point you can add the meat back in and mix well. I have made this without meat and it also works REALLY well.

Now, add the spaghetti. Do not break it or cook it or try to do anything with it at this point. Just put it in the pan and let it sort of brown a little bit and absorb whatever grease is still in the pan. Then add two ladles full of the already heated broth. In just a couple of minutes, the pasta will start to soften. Stir.

Add another ladle full of broth and stir well. Wait until the liquid is almost completely absorbed and add another ladle.

Repeat this until the broth is almost completely gone. As the pasta cooks, it makes the most amazing, creamy sauce. There is a whole long explanation about starches breaking down and carbs decomposing and a bunch of other stuff like that but I think it is just plain magic.


This is my version of a recipe I saw on Rachael Ray. Hers had wine and fresh herbs and then she put beans on it but by the time I made it the next day, this is all that I remembered and, gosh, it turned out just fantastically!

My daughter, who has seldom tried a new food and liked it, LOVES this.