Component: Aromatic Vegetable Mix

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Ingredients:

🥬 Carrot x2

🥬 Celery Piece x2

🥬 Onion x1

🧴 Olive Oil (tablespoon) x2

🧂 Crushed Garlic (teaspoon) x1 (optional)

 

Tools:

🔪 Knife (any)

🔪 Vegetable Chopper (recommended; mandolin slicer or grater can also be used)

🍳 Frypan

🥄 Eggflip (recommended; wooden spoon can also be used)

🔌 Cooktop (gas or induction)

 

Method:

1. Dice the carrot, celery and onion, using your knife and vegetable chopper.

2. Put the diced carrot, celery and onion in the frypan, and add the olive oil and garlic.

3. Heat the frypan on the stovetop until you can hear it sizzling. Use your eggflip to stir around the mix.

4. Saute for approximately 10 minutes, then remove from heat.

 

This vegetable mix isn't a meal in itself, but can be used as a tasty filler in a variety of things.
I've used it to supplement the meat in spaghetti sauce, in pies, and on one occasion as pizza topping.
You can also use it to make olive oil pasta; cook some pasta in a separate saucepan, then drain the pasta, add it to the frypan with a little more olive oil and some chili flakes, and just stir to combine before serving.
You can also use this vegetable mix in making minestrone; if you do, I recommend sauteing the vegetables in the bottom of the pot you make the minestrone in, rather than using a separate frypan.

[Inash]

It also makes a good base to start a soup from. Take the above, add some diced chicken once the veggies are sautéed. Once the chicken is done, add chicken broth and water (ratio to taste), season to taste (basil and celery salt are good spices for this). Bring to a boil and add noodles.

[Eric]

Or, add tomato paste, continue to saute until fragrant and slightly browned. Deglaze with wine (or water), and cook down again. Mix into meatloaf meat for all that umami.