Fried Pasta - It's What's For Breakfast

Don’t ask me why, but for some reason I’ve been wanting to fry leftover pasta – I guess I’d seen it somewhere. Whatever the reason, we finally had some leftover spaghetti and I decided now was the time. As we usually do with leftover pasta, we mixed in some olive oil while it was still warm to reduce it’s sticking together.

For this dish, I mixed some pepper jack cheese into the pasta to help hold it together, then mashed it together as much as I could. I fried it in olive oil with a pat of butter, partially covered until turning. After adding the pasta to the pan, I realized it was more than I wanted, so I split it in half.

After flipping, I added some grated parmesan, to the pasta and put the eggs on to cook. Here’s the plated dish (forgot the greenery again).

While I like hash browns a little better, it was tasty and the outside was similar to the crunch of crispy hash browns - I will do this again with some changes. First, I’ll decide in advance how much I plan to fry and while still a little warm, I’ll mix in some herbs and the cheese, but no oil (I want it to stick together). Then I’ll mash it tightly into the right sized container and store in the fridge. When ready to use, it should pop out as a near solid disk, ready to fry, which I’d do the same way. I might think of a sauce to use next time as well.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Larry