Ingredients
What is an easy menu?Today, I introduce a easy recipe for camping menu, "Tomato sauce spaghetti". This is one of menu items I cook for dinner in the camping last weekend. Because there is an event in Japanese school before the camp, we did not have much time for cooking dinner on the first day. I picked this recipe for dinner.
This time we had 7 adults and 5 kids in our group. We need to cook dinner for 12 people. When I was thinking a menu, I really need to minimize cooking goods and I will try to minimize to store foods in an ice box. Then cooking rice won't be an option because it takes longer time and it might be easy to cook more than 6 cups of rice. Also, I was thinking to serve breads with other dish. But it is not easy to cook something for 12 people. I did not have much choices and I concluded "spaghetti" could be a good choice.
Ingredients (for 4 people)
- Tomato dice can 411g (14.5oz)
- Tomato sauce can 425g (15oz)
- Chicken breast can 354g (12.5 oz)
- Spaghetti 300~400g
- Salt (tea spoon 1 ~ 1.5)
- Garlic olive oil (table spoon 1~2)
- Water 1 cup+, I used the tomato sauce can
Cut spaghetti to half and put them into a zip lock with water (500ml, 16.9 FL OZ) which is not listed in ingredient to soak them for an hour.
After an hour, put garlic olive oil to a pan. If you do not have garlic olive oil, you can slice a few pieces of garlic and a regular olive oil to stir fry. Then put the tomato dice, tomato sauce and the water with salt into the pan and boil it. Put the chicken breast and boil it again.
Put spaghetti with draining water to the pan and stir fry around 2~3 minutes until changing noodle color and serve it.
I cooked this 3 times in the last camping. It took less than an hour since each cooking is not taking so long, it took probably 15 minutes for each batch. If you have some extra time, it is a good idea to put sliced mushrooms. The key is to soak spaghetti for an hour. It helps to reduce cooking time of spaghetti significantly. Also, it does not have to cook spaghetti independently. Just cook them in the sauce.
Almost all ingredients are not stored in an ice box because they are can foods and dry noodle. Therefore it is easy to manage them. This is really good recipe for camping as well as a regular menu at home when people are busy. It is worst to try this.
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