The last of last year’s carrots, and the best of this spring’s eggs, with some fantastic pasta from the co-op. I pulled the inspiration for this recipe from one of my older recipe books, The Quick After-Work Vegetarian Cookbook. It has several ‘go-to’ recipes in it, but I often tweak them to suit my taste. This one, I tweaked the quantities to suit two quite hungry people.
INGREDIENTS (PER PERSON):
- 1 carrot
- 1 egg
- 25g butter
- 75g pasta
- 25g pecorino
- 1/2 tsp dried tarragon
- salt and freshly grated black pepper
METHOD:
- Put a pan of salted water on to boil while you prepare the other ingredients.
- When the water comes to the boil, add the pasta, and cook as instructed on the pack, usually around 8 minutes.
- Peel and chop the carrot finely.
- Melt the butter, and add the dried tarragon and carrots, cook gently for around 7 minutes until the carrots are tender.
- Beat the eggs and then add the grated cheese, a pinch of salt and a good grating of pepper.
- When the pasta is done, drain it, return it to the hot pan, add the hot carrots and butter and then stir in the cheese and eggs, which will cook in the heat of the pasta.
- Serve in warmed plates. The egg should still be a little runny, like the centre of an omelette.
A light, sharp-flavoured green salad and a light fresh white wine would go well with this.
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