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Title: Fides (Angel-Hair Noodles in Sauce)
Categories: Pasta Sephardic Greek Jewish Variations
Yield: 6 Servings
| 1/4 | c | Corn or sunflower oil |
| 1 | lb | Angel-hair noodles |
| 8 | c | Homemade chicken broth |
| 1 | c | Tomato juice |
| 1 | ts | Dried oregano |
| 1/4 | ts | Pepper |
| 1/2 | ts | Salt |
| 1 | tb | Fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped OR |
| 1 | ts | Dried flat-leaf parsley |
Greek Sephardic women learn how to cook from their mothers & grandmothers. It is a feminine activity at home while the men were off to work. In this Athens family, my teacher told me that "fides" were know as "grandmother's noodles" since she was the source. Nowadays, the noodles are purchased, but in the past even these fine, hairlike noodles were made at home.
1. Heat the oil in a pan, add the bundles of noodles & fry them over moderate heat for abt 3 mins until golden.
2. In another pan put the broth, tomato juice, oregano, pepper, salt, & the parsley. Bring to a boil & simmer over moderate heat for 10 mins. Add the noodles & 1 tablespoon of oil from the pan in which they were fried. With 2 forks separate the softened clumps & simmer for 15 mins as the liquid is absorb. Separate the noodles now & then as the cooking continues. Serve hot as a side dish w/meat or chicken. Serves 6.
VARIATIONS FOR PAREVE STYLE: For those who follow the dietary laws, "pareve" is the neutral status of a dish, being neither milk or meat, & so can be served w/either one.
Instead of chicken broth, which limits the Fides to meat dishes, use 4 kosher vegetable soup cubes, to prepare 8 cups of pareve broth.
Follow the recipe as above, using the same system of preparation. Garnish the angel-hair noodles w/grated Parmesan or kashkaval cheese, which then changes it to a dairy.
NOTE: Certain commercial foods have crept into the Sephardic cooking of Greece & Turkey. The first is the use of meat or vegetable cubes that are available in stores catering to kosher clients. The other is the use of margarine, which is also pareve, to replace butter, which is a dairy food. If one comes from a kosher household, as I do, it becomes a simple matter to analyze a situation & make a pareve, meat, or dairy decision quickly.
Recipe: "Sephardic Cooking" by Copeland Mark -- 600 Recipes Created in Exotic Sephardic Kitchens from Morocco to India -- 1992 Published by Donald I. Fine, Inc., NY
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