Quick Left-Over Dinner #1 - Trout and Mushrooms with Pasta in Cream Sauce

I was not planning on blogging this meal but it was too easy to prepare and it tasted too good not to share – so here goes. I used what I had at home. As you can see - everything came out of a container or the freezer.

Left-Over Trout 

[Rating – very easy]

[Serves – 4 ]

Preparation time: 

15 minutes if you heat everything up [this includes the 5 minutes you need to pull things out of the frig]

[20 minutes if you need to cook the pasta]

Ingredients:  

About 150 grams of curly pasta or any left over pasta (2 to 3 cups cooked pasta)

4 pieces of left-over trout or any cooked fish – broken into pieces

7 cherry tomatoes cut in half (that's all I had in the house!! you can use more)

A handful of frozen green beans

A handful of frozen peas

1 cup left-over braised mushrooms (½ can of sliced mushrooms or more)

1 generous tablespoon chopped garlic 

2 teaspoons black pepper

1 cup (250 mil) cooking cream (10% fat)

¼ to ½ cup of grated Pecorino or Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (depends on what you have around)

Optional – pesto sauce 

Frozen pesto

Pesto (30 seconds in the microwave)

Preparation: 

·        Cook the pasta as directed – drain and set aside

In a large frying pan:

·        Add peas

·        Add green beans

·        Add mushrooms

·        Tablespoon of garlic

·        Gently stirring together just until they heat up and thaw out

Mushrooms, frozen peas and green beans

·        Add the fish (broken into bite-sized bits)

Trout fillets crumbled

·        Add the cherry tomatoes

Cherry tomatoes cut in half

·        Stir together

·        Add the pasta into the mixture – mix well

·        Pour the cream over everything

·        Add the black pepper

·        Stir everything together until the cream begins to bubble

·        Add grated cheese and sprinkle with kosher salt to taste

The Transformation of the Left-Over ingredients!!!

From the frying pan onto the table.

Trout and Mushrooms with Pasta in a Cream Sauce

Of course you could bump this up by serving a green salad, garlic bread and a glass of red wine!!! We added a bit of pesto sauce from the freezer (see Sept 16 2011 blog) - which gave this left-over meal an added kick. 

Needless to say there were no left-overs!!!

Next week – Grandma Bertha’s Latkahs - Enjoy!!!