I offer you a recipe that doesn't require a chopped onion. In these strange times, this made me very happy. It's a Jamie Oliver recipe, and is billed as 'proper bloke's sausage pasta'. Hmmm. I assume this one is from when Jamie was young and foolish, but it made my daughter very beady indeed and she declared herself a proper bloke, as 'no-one is stupid enough to gender food these days'. Excellent start to a cooking session.
Take 2 heaped teaspoons of dried red chilli and fennel seeds and bash into crumbs in a pestle and mortar (or spice grinder if you are better equipped than me). Peel about 600g of good sausages out of their skins and fry in a little oil, breaking them up until they resemble sausage mince. Chuck in the fennel/chilli mix and cook for 10 minutes until golden and caramelized.
Next add a glass of white wine and bubble until reduced by half. Next comes zest and juice if a lemon. Cook gently while you cook the pasta. Mine was a special bag from Marks and I forget the name, but it was curly and held lots of sauce. When the pasta is done, tip into the sauce, add a couple of knobs of butter, a good handful of parmesan and some fresh parsley.
This is subtly spicy, just the right amount of lemony and but try, and delicious. Not at all different for girls...
So interesting to see a pasta sauce without onion. I find I almost start chopping an onion without thinking about it because it's usually such a ubiquitous base flavour, so I'd have to remind myself not to do it with this. This sounds like an excellent, easy non-gendered dish!
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