Ok, so this is NOT a cookery blog, and I am NOT a chef, but I need something to change the recent direction of the blog and I just recently came across this recipe again. You must try it at least once.
You will need:
3 Leeks, washed, peeled and chopped.
A handful of toasted pine nuts
One packet of pancetta (Italian pork belly, available everywhere, the Lidl version is perfect)
2/3 good teaspoons of Pesto
A couple of good glugs of olive oil
A small pasta, shells or fusilli works well.
Method:
Fry off the pancetta. You want it to be crispy, reduce most of the fat out of it. Drain it of oil and then set it aside.
Add a good glug of oil to a deep frying pan or wide saucepan and sweat down the chopped leeks for about 10 minutes stirring occasionally. You want them to be fully soft and beginning to brown.
Add the pancetta and the pine nuts and the 2/3 spoons of pesto (to your taste really..)
Boil the pasta until al dente and when draining hold back half a cup of the water.
Mix in the leek, pine nut and pesto sauce and if too dry add a little of the water.
Serves 2. Double the ingredients for 4. Add more pesto if you really like pesto like me. :)
Just divine. Seriously.
Normal blogging service will be resumed shortly. I just needed to get that out of my system.
Anytime you want to get anything like that out of your system, is fine with me…. :)
Sounds great Leo, going to give it a lash soon!
OMG I had this in your Mum’s house AND NOW I HAVE THE RECIPE!!! *Leaves work immediately to go in search of ingredients*
when you say change direction of the blog. do you mean stop being a moany f*cker? :-) lol but then it wouldn’t be half as readable! xx
Need to give it a go soon. Where did you rediscover this? When you were in Italy?