Week 3: Meal under $10 - Fresh pasta and bread with garlic-chili sauce

Week 3: Meal under $10 - Fresh pasta and bread with garlic-chili sauce

Posted Oct 17, 2013, 4:30 PM UTC

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efmacOP•

Using the Vegan Dad pasta recipe, the Altamura Bread recipe from Bread Experience. (Albeit poorly executed.) Sauce was freeform, but essentially, lots of garlic, chili flakes, and tomato paste sauteed in olive oil, simmered with some lentils and crushed tomatoes.

My costing is really rough, but I'm estimating it cost under $9 CAD for a hefty carby from-scratch meal for two.

Bread:

  • 1/2 c whole wheat red fife flour: $.75
  • 1/2 c all purpose flour: $.25
  • 1 2/3 c semolina flour: $1.25
  • salt: $.05

Pasta:

  • 1 c all purpose flour: $.50
  • 1 c semolina flour: $.75
  • 1 tbsp olive pomace oil: $.10
  • salt: $.05

Sauce:

  • 4 cloves garlic: $.50
  • 2 tbsp chili flakes: $.25
  • 1/2 c lentils: $.50
  • 1/2 carrot, shredded: $.50
  • 3 tbsp tomato paste: $.50
  • 1/8 cup olive pomace oil: $.50
  • 400mL crushed tomatoes: $2.00
  • salt: $.05

Garnish:

  • 1/4 c Italian parsley: $.30
  • black pepper: $.05
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Jebbygina•

Garlic chili sauce sounds so freaking good. I am a fan of this. I should bust out the ol' pasta maker sometime in the near future.

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efmacOP•

It was okay, but I regret the tinned tomatoes. Wound up tasting like an extra-garlicky-spicy marinara, which was fine, but a little pedestrian. I'd suggest using a little bit more oil, a bit of fresh basil, some pounded almonds—like a diabolical pesto—and then thin it out with some starch water. I think that'll make a real velvety, lustrous sauce that'll show off the fresh noodles much better.

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