Orecchiette Pasta and Pesto Baguette

skunkmonkey101
skunkmonkey101 @skunk_monkey101
Dover, Florida

My oldest granddaughter came over so we cooked this up!!!

Orecchiette Pasta and Pesto Baguette

My oldest granddaughter came over so we cooked this up!!!

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Ingredients

  1. Pasta
  2. 12 ouncesOrecchiette pasta
  3. 2 quartwater to boil pasta
  4. 1 tablespoonssalt to boil pasta
  5. Sauce
  6. 12 ouncesbeef meatballs
  7. 1/4 poundItalian sausage
  8. 28 ounceRoma canned tomatoes I used San Marzeno
  9. 28 ouncecrushed tomatoes
  10. 2/3 cupdried currants
  11. 2 tablespoonscapers
  12. 1/2 stickbutter
  13. 1/4 cupsliced green olive with pimentos
  14. 3 tablespoonsharissa
  15. 1 poundground sirloin
  16. 2 tablespoonsdehydrated onions
  17. To taste salt
  18. 1/4 cupchopped parsley
  19. 1 teaspoongranulated garlic powder
  20. Pesto baguette
  21. 1 loafbaguette bread
  22. 11 teaspoonpesto
  23. 1 stickbutter

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Gather you olive, capers, currants, and harissa. Mix together.

  2. 2

    Sear the sausage and brown the sirloin. Start the pasta boiling. When seared on all sides slice the sausage. Add sausage, dehydrated onions, and salt to the sirloin. Add the caper mixture.

  3. 3

    Do in batches. Slice the baguette. Melt half the butter in a skillet. Fry the bread on both sides of bread. Then do the other half of the loaf with the rest of the butter.

  4. 4

    Take the pesto and smear it on one side of each piece of fried baguette.

  5. 5

    Add the whole tomatoes to the meat mixture. Then add the crushed tomatoes. Taste and adjust seasonings.

  6. 6

    Add the pasta reserve the pasta water in case you need to thicken or thin the sauce. Serve I hope you enjoy!!! You can add cheese if you like. I usually do this on the second day to change the flavor a bit so it's like not eating the same thing.a

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This picture is me and my oldest daughter. I love Asian, Mediterranean, and Southern food.I hope you enjoy my recipes, if you have any questions please ask. The app only allows so many followings, they put a limit on how many we can follow I have reached my limit. If it wasn't there I would follow back everyone, sorry....
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Comments (3)

kim poe
kim poe @Springmix2
it looks, 😋really delicious.I've missed talking to you.

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