Fire-roasted Tomato Basil Bruschetta & Pasta Recipes – FF #33

Dan demonstrates how to make a fire-roasted tomato basil bruschetta mixture and provides ideas for using the mixture to make an appetizer, light lunch or even an easy, quick and healthy main course. The live footage from this episode was filmed at a live cooking demo at the Midland, MI Farmer’s Market in September 2011.

Check out our how-to video for Roasted Garlic & Grilled Onions:

Check out our how-to video for how to fire-roast tomatoes, peppers, chiles:

For a more simple traditional form of Bruschetta, try the grilled garlic bread in FF#27: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YnYhEfkDrM

Hello and welcome to funk tified food my name is Dan vallencourt today we’re going to use some of the fire roasting stuff that we made in the last episode we’re going to take two cups of those fire-roasted Tomatoes I’ve just peeled and chopped these you can chop them as

Fine or as coarse as you like I have about a half of a medium grilled onion chopped we showed how to grill the onion in the last episode 1 medium fire roasted bell pepper and that’s chopped it’s it’s about a half a cup or so 2 to

4 cloves of roasted garlic I like to mince that and kind of make it into a I like to kind of make it into a paste about a quarter cup of fresh basil I like it real finely chopped just kind of infuses the flavor a little bit better

Two tablespoons of olive oil and then just a sea salt some freshly ground pepper and that just kind of brings out all the flavors just a little bit more yeah the cool thing about this must get the mix you can just put this right on a piece of grilled bread or toasted bread

And have it as an appetizer your pita chips work pretty good one of the things that I really like to do is just toss this with pasta it’s so good it’s all your flavor sort of right in this mixture one cup of cooked pasta one cup of this bruschetta mixture and four

Ounces of a protein like leftover chicken breast pork tenderloin and cannellini beans if you’re vegetarian or you just like beans grilled fish tell me sausage doesn’t matter a little sea salt and pepper if you think you need it I just taste it first maybe you put a

Enough in there in the first place you can use this tomato mixture for all sorts of different dishes put it on pizza put it on lasagna I mean it’s uh it’s just kind of like salsa is to Mexican food you can use it done just about anything and just kicks up the

Flavor a little bit my name is still banned on board and this is you