Tag: sofrito
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Vegetable Ragu: A Frugal Italian Delight
This vegetable ragu is known as fake sauce (sugo finto) and is a great example of cuisina povera or the frugal food of Italy. In this vegetarian ragu sauce, meat is replaced with vegetables. The flavor is layered into the sauce with a slow cooked soffritto of onions, carrots and celery, which is deglazed with…
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Vegetarian Bolognese: Lentil Ragu Recipe You’ll Love
In general I’m not a fan of vegetarian bolognese style pasta sauces. There are so many fantastic authentically vegetarian pasta sauces… why would you bother? However, Sydney was in the midst of a dreary midwinter slump, it was gloomy and cold outside and this slow cooked lentil ragu seemed like just thing to banish the…
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Ina Garten’s Legendary Lentil Soup Recipe with Sofrito Flavor Base
I’ve got a quite a few lentil soups on this site and when I first came across this recipe, my first thought was, do I really need to try another version of lentil soup. My second thought was I can’t believe there’s a legendary Ina Garten lentil soup recipe that I’ve never even heard of……
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Mastering the Flavor Bomb: Frank Camorra’s Signature Sofrito
I recently got a new refrigerator and nearly doubled my freezer space overnight. My old tiny freezer was always chaotic, with things crammed in so that something would always fall out when I opened the door. Now I have three storage drawers which make feel ultra organised and virtuous and I don’t have to hold…
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Authentic TexMex Carrot Sofrito: Josef Centano’s Recipe
When the world is in turmoil, it’s good to go back to the comfort basics and, for a lot of Australian families, taco night has become something of an institution. Australia has a tiny Mexican population but we still love our taco nights, even if our version of tacos is less than authentic, simply because…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 