This video features Jamie Oliver making a delicious Greek Cypriot inspired pasta dish that is quick and easy to make with just five ingredients. The recipe is from his new cookbook, 5 Ingredients Mediterranean, which features over 125 simple and delicious recipes that transport you to the Mediterranean. The dish is perfect for a quick midweek meal or a crowd-pleaser, and it’s a one-pound wonder. The recipe is inspired by the flavors and colors of the Mediterranean, making it one of the best cuisines in the world. The video is a great resource for anyone looking to make a simple and flavorful pasta dish with just a few ingredients.
I’m going to show you how to make the most delicious Greek cypria inspired pasta it’s so good it’s really quick it’s a one pound wonder and it’s a recipe from my new cookbook five ingredients Mediterranean this is simple five ingredients obviously but all of that energy from the Mediterranean the colors the flavors one of the best cuisines in the world and of course there’s so many countries now one of them is Cyprus I used to go there as a kid one of my good friends Georgie Hayden uh gave me the inspiration for this dish because she comes from Cyprus so one of the things in this book that I really love is the non- Italian pasta dishes which I know sounds really weird but without getting into too many arguments the Mediterranean has had pasta for thousands of years this is Oro so it looks a little bit like rice but it’s not rice right it’s very small pasta you can get it really easily now in supermarkets not all of them but it’s definitely out there so we’re going to use this pasta I’m also going to give you a hack to sort of fake this pasta if you can’t find it right with spaghetti I’ll show you that in a minute so we’ve got pasta garlic we’ve got parsley here which you could swap out for any herb you like margarine thyme basil we’ve got the halumi here which all my kids love at home really really nice sort of squeaky and fresh and salty then we’ve got some Tomatoes here that have been on the window sill nice and ripe let’s get cooking so like I said it’s a one PB Wonder to get yourself a nice wide casserole style pan we’ll whack that onto a medium heat to start off with and first job actually is a little preparation on fresh pasta now first up you can use tin Tomatoes straight away two tinted tomato would be beautiful but I think what you get when they’re on the vine like this they don’t just taste good they smell good as well so what I’m going to do is get some nice ripe Tomatoes um I’ve got 600 G of tomatoes here just cut them in half like this this is a little hack for making a very simple delicious sauce instead of using tin Tomatoes which is also delicious it’s using a standard box grater like this and what I do is go on the fine side not that side this one here right that You’ grate cheese on take the half of the tomato and just gently rub it and don’t cut yourself right just gently now if you see down the bottom you’re going to see pulp and Juice coming out and on the top you’re going to see a separation of the seeds and the skin the freshness is another level right so look at that right no seeds seeds so that’s the tech technique so I’m going to do that to all of this a little clean down so the tomato sauce is done this pan is getting nice and warm I’m going to put a couple of tablespoons of olive oil into a pan and I’ve got two cloves of garlic so this is a really simple pasta sauce but the technique starts to get really interesting cuz we’re not going to boil the pasta we’re going to cook the pasta in the sauce get your garlic in there you don’t want to cook the garlic too quickly at this point I’ve got half a bunch of fresh parsley it could be basil it could be oregano it really doesn’t matter I’m going to finally slice these stalks which are really sweet and delicious don’t waste those and as that garlic just starts to color I’m going to put in the stalks of the parsley if you wanted to make this spicy you could but that would be a sick ingredient so so five ingredients I’m keeping it simple keeping it fresh I’m now going to go in with the beautiful fresh tomatoes look at that look at the color so now I’m going to turn the heat up and just bring this to the boil and what I’m going to do is put some water in here to roughly the same volume as you had the grated tomatoes so in we go in with the water and what you want to do is bring that to the B boil so I’m going to finally slice The Parsley using the cross chop method so fingers flat at the end and just keep going around until it’s nice and fine so here we’ve got 200 g of the Oro right so you can see if you look closely it looks like rice but it really isn’t it’s got more angular sort of cuts on it but if you can’t find it I want to give you a little hack right because you’ll get a very very similar effect get a tea tow get some spaghetti and just steal a little bit like that okay roll up the pasta like this and very simply take it and just run it off the side of a surface like that okay and then what you get is your own homemade fake also okay so it’s a nice little tip let me just mop that up so look not a bad little fake right but even though it’s you know also it might feel Posh it’s just flour and water right now as soon as this has come to the boil let’s Let It Rain also give it a little stir I think it’s important to give it a light seasoning now so it Cooks into the pasta like that so some salt go in with some pepper so you can see this is boiling nicely and I want to cook that on a medium sort of gentle simmer right not too fast not too slow with a lid on stirring regularly for about 12 to 14 minutes until it’s nice and tender and then I’ll show you how to season it finish it with the halumi and also adjust the texture smells good while that’s cooking please click the like button and give us some love and don’t forget to subscribe oh and remember to turn on that notification Bell so you know what’s happening now back to the recipe so this has been cooking now for about 11 minutes look how the pasta’s absorbed the sauce really beautiful and there’s so many things you could do with this you could put tuna through it you could put olives through it more herbs through it different cheeses through it you could you know uh use different vegetables chopped up Jarred Peppers so this is a beautiful principle recipe but this one simple and gorgeous five ingredients so the fun bit is now let’s just try a little bit of oo beautiful I’m going to turn the heat off remember if it’s a little bit wet now that’s perfect cuz it’s going to carry on sucking up the beautiful moisture I’m going to go in with this lovely chopped parsley and now the real twist in the tail like when I tried this for the first time it really blew my mind so I’ve always bought halumi the family love it I fried it I grilled it but never in pastas and it is amazing so about 40 gr you use just to put through it and then just a little bit on it and it just melts in the most incredible way so I guess when you grill it or fry it it’s a bit bouncy and a little bit squeaky and delicious but when you grate it like this it oozes into the pasta but kind of holds its shape a little bit so look at the color it’s really really nice you might want to adjust with just a little bit of water you know just to let it down you want it to be loose and you want it to be elegant really important not dry and not claggy just stir that through look at that ooze if you’ve got some nice extra virgin olive oil just kind of stir a little bit of that through it just to give it that beautiful shine so let’s have a little go here look at that texture imagine doing that for your friends and family if they love like a classic tomato pasta this is like that but fresher more surprising the halumi has got that lovely salty Tang that’s so good if you wanted to hit it with a little chili of course you can but look at that beautiful just finish it with a little olive oil like that hot and steamy I’m just going to finish it now with just a few bits of parsley just to tell the story what’s going on you can change up the herbs if you want I’m going to go to the Fine side of the grater and just do nice long strokes of halumi and then the only thing you got to do is find a fork and tuck in look at that beautiful M it’s so good so simple it’s one of those recipes that you could do time and time again I think there’s a nice technique in there with box gring those fresh tomatoes so nice five ingredients simple delicious comfort food and that is one of the recipes from my brand new cookbook five ingredients Mediterranean please have a look just pick it up flick through it and see what you think I hope I know you’re going to love it take care and