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4 Oct

The Ultimate Leftover Challenge

 

We’ve all been in the position where we’ve purchased ingredients for a tasty dinner only to cook something else at the last minute or go out for dinner following last-minute plans. A week later, we find those same ingredients at the back of our fridge forgotten, untouched and nowhere near as fresh. Unfortunately, they often end up wasted and in the bin.

But with 7 million tonnes of food and drink being wasted each year in the UK alone, we wanted to do something constructive to help you to cut down on your everyday household food waste.

So, we challenged top food blogger Emily Leary of A Mummy Too to dive into the depths of her and her readers’ American style fridge freezers to find the most common three leftover ingredients.

We then tasked her to come up with a bespoke recipe using all those forgotten foodstuffs – did you know that a Pasta alla Genovese makes a tasty dinner and could help you reduce food wastage?

Chances are the key ingredients could be at the back of your fridge shelves just this moment too!

Ingredients

  • 400g dried tagliatelle
  • 150g green pesto
  • 3 tbsp olive oil
  • 300g new potatoes, diced
  • 100g fine green beans, halved
  • 100g fresh peas
  • 100g baby broccoli
  • 100ml cream
  • salt and pepper, to taste
  • Parmesan to garnish
  • Sprigs of basil to garnish

Instructions

  1. Cook the pasta in a large pan of boiling salted water for about 10 minutes until al dente.
  2. Heat the oil in a frying pan over a low heat. Add the diced potatoes and cook for 2-3 minutes until they start to turn golden. Taste one to make sure they’re cooked through, then set aside.
  3. Meanwhile, in a separate pan, cook the beans, peas and broccoli in boiling water for 3-5 minutes until just cooked. Drain.
  4. Drain the pasta and return to the pan.
  5. Toss the pasta in the pesto and cream until evenly coated. Add the potatoes and green veg and toss again until well combined and heated through. Taste and season as needed.
  6. Divide between bowls, season with a little more black pepper and top with a grating of parmesan and sprig of basil to serve.
  7. Enjoy your dish made completely of those forgotten, leftover ingredients!
Pasta Medium

 

Just because some of the ingredients in your fridge have seen better days doesn’t mean that they’re no longer fit for eating. This Pasta alla Genovese dish is the ideal recipe for using up your common leftover ingredients so you don’t have to feel bad about wasting unused food again! Have any other favourite ‘go to’ recipes to use up those forgotten foodstuffs? Let us know on our Facebook page or on Twitter.