Last night wasn't the first night I took some leftovers and made a delicious meal. How often do you open your fridge and feel like you have nothing when really the crisper is over flowing? Probably more than you'd think.
This meal can't really have a recipe because you'll make it with whatever you happen to have in the fridge. I will give you the recipe for the sauce I made though because it was delicious (and healthy too).
What you will need for the garbage pasta
- 1 pkg of any pasta of your choice
- any vegetables you may have in the fridge (I used cherry tomatoes, broccoli and cauliflower). Some other suggestions: spinach, mushrooms, green or red peppers (or yellow or orange - why not?), baby carrots, bok choy (seems random but who knows?). Really, you can use any vegetable of your choice.
- any leftover meat you have (chicken, shrimp, steaks) I used some chicken sausages I had in the freezer.
All you have to do to make the pasta (make sure you salt the water), and throw all your other ingredients in a large saute pan to soften the vegetables.
For the sauce:
1/4 cup of flour
2 cups of chicken broth
1/2 cup of Greek yogurt
1 tsp of garlic powder
1 tbsp of pesto
1/4 cup of parmesan cheese
What to do:
This is an easy way to make a healthier version of a roux (butter and flour mixed together and used to thicken sauce). All I did was take about 1/2 cup of the broth put it together with the flour in an air tight container. I gave it a good shake and then mixed it with the remainder of the broth.
Heat the broth mixture and add the garlic powder. Once it comes to a boil, add the Greek yogurt, parmesan cheese and pesto.
Then, just toss the sauce, pasta and meat and vegetables together and voila! You've got a garbage pasta!
Here's what mine looked like:
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