Monday, February 25, 2013

Orzo with artichokes and sundried tomatoes

Pasta is comfort food for me, both to cook and eat.
This is a recent experiment of mine with orzo, which turned out pretty neat.



Ingredients:
1. Orzo - 2 cups
2. Olive oil - 3 tablespoons
3. Chopped artichokes - 1 cup
4. Chopped sundried tomatoes - 1/2 cup
5. Capers - 1 or 2 tablespoons per taste. (You can choose not to use them if you are allergic to capers or their taste).
6. Basil pesto - liberal/per taste.

7. Crushed red pepper flakes - 1/2 table spoon.
8. Garlic - 2 cloves, minced or mashed.
9. Onion - 1 small one, chopped

Procedure:
- Cook orzo according to the directions on the box/packet.
- Add oil to a cooking pan, let it warm up.
- Saute onion, garlic, crushed red pepper.
- Then saute artichokes, tomatoes. You can add chopped red and/or green bell peppers if you like some extra color in your food :)
- Put the flame on simmer and stirr in the cooked/drained orzo. Stirr in capers, salt. Add cracked pepper per taste. Let cook for roughly 3 minutes on the slow flame.
- Serve with a dallop of pesto or stirr it into the pasta along with capers.

Enjoy!