My turn to make dinner tonight so where do I turn for inspiration? To my Thug Kitchen 101 cookbook, of course.
I love the flavours from their Skillet Beer Chili Mac – a one pot mac and cheese with beer and black beans recipe so I used that as a starting point for dinner this evening.
I put a Dutch oven with some grapeseed oil on a hot element and then added three finely diced onions to the pot. I let them sauté until they had softened up and then added some slices of yellow and red peppers to the pot. Once they were cooked down a bit I added in the spices; smoked paprika, chilli powder, and a little curry powder.
I let that heat up so the flavours of the spices could bloom and then I added three cups of veggie stock and a jar of tomato sauce. A little time to heat that up and then I put in the spaghetti. Brought it to a boil, reduced the heat so the spaghetti could cook, and left it cooking for about ten minutes.
Once the spaghetti noodles were cooked to al dente I removed the pot from the heat and folded in a quarter cup of nutritional yeast to give the pasta a cheese, nutty flavour.
And then just before serving the pasta I added a can of black beans to the pot of pasta. Of course before using the black beans I dumped them into a strainer and thoroughly rinsed them.
The good news? In less than half an hour I had dinner on the table and the one pot spaghetti was delicious, the kids enjoyed it, and I only had one pot to clean after dinner. Another winner inspired by the Thug Kitchen 101 cookbook.
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4 responses to “My Thug Kitchen Inspired One Pot Spaghetti ”
Sounds great…I need to try it!
The best part, other than the great flavours, is there is ONE pot to clean up afterwards.
One pot cooking is the best. What was the beverage of choice to accompany your thuggish ruggish meal? Bone broth?
Haha! It was a vegetarian meal so I skipped the bone broth. A side glass of Twin Sails Con Heche beer was my choice. The girls had apple juice.