Befriending Project Cooking Night

On Monday, the Befriending project were treated to Dave’s Pasta Primavera cooking session.

Dave’s Pasta Primavera Recipe

Ingredients

You can use any vegetables to make this simple quick Pasta dish.

½ Onion, slices of peppers,

Mushrooms,

Courgettes, garlic,

Mixed herbs,

Tomatoes,

Fresh Passata

75 grams of cooked pasta salt and pepper.

OPTIONAL: Cooked Chicken, Chorizo, ham etc (sliced thinly)

Method

Slice all the vegetables/meat.

Heat some oil in a wok/pan

Add vegetables and seasoning and stir fry for 4 or 5 minutes.

Add passata and any cooked meat and cook through.

Add the cooked pasta and warm through until well coated.

There were 8 young people and their befrienders. The group were given a demonstration in how to love food and hate waste as the recipe really should really be called;

 “Pasta and veg that we have in the fridge”

All were given information about using and storing vegetables and the value of cooking your own meals. The results were great and all enjoyed sampling the food that they had cooked.

 

“ Delicious, simple food- and , more than that, a great example of breaking down barriers to cooking. The young people had a good time and for some- whose diets are ridiculously limited- a chance to touch and taste and smell and explore.” 

 Fiona Jessiman

Volunteer Coordinator (Wigtownshire)

Dumfries and Galloway Befriending Project