Jez: They're tomato-y...

Mark: Ketchup is tomato-y. That's not a pasta sauce!

Jez: It is when I make pasta.

What the hell are you doing?

Mark: I'm picking the beans out.

Jez: With your disgusting human fingers?

Mark: I'm just gonna mix it all together.

I need to go Nigella; I'm gonna be the hairy biker!

Jez: That's not Nigella. That's not even Ainsley, mate.

Mark: How about some lovely filling lettuce?

Jez: You know what, maybe it's fine. Is it...

Moroccan?

Mark: Maybe it is Moroccan!

Jez: Yeah Morocco. Anything goes in Morocco.

Hey guys, Happy New Year, and welcome back to Binging with Babish

Where this week we're taking a look at Mark Corrigan's dish that begins and ends with lettuce.

But before it devolves into a lettuce casserole, it starts out as a respectable homemade pasta and alfredo sauce.

And since this is Peep Show, we gotta go point-of-view.

Try to avoid looking at the light stands, power cables, and Whole Foods bags as I pre-grate about three ounces

of Parmesan cheese and bring a cup of heavy cream to a light simmer

along with two tablespoons of butter.

Grab a wooden spoon and stir that around until the butter is nicely melted, and gently simmer the mixture for about 15 minutes until it

has reduced by a third, before adding the entirety of your grated cheese,

along with a pinch of kosher salt and freshly ground pepper

Adding more cheese as necessary, until the desired thickness is achieved. Bear in mind if we were doing this for real

We want to finish cooking the pasta in the sauce so we'd want a little thinner than

what we'd expect to end up in our bowl. now if you, want to make your pasta from scratch

Like mark corrigan does go check out

My, pasta episode of basics babish but you can just use some store-bought. Stuff if you

Don't have it or the romantic inclination cook for 2 to 3 minutes until al dente and cover with our alfredo sauce

Maybe have a bite or two for posterity before we absolutely ruin it with, some heinz, baked, beans

Now i know mark crushed his up a little bit but anything's got to

Make, that much of a difference culinarily

So we're just gonna dump in about half a can mix it up a little bit before adding

Some lovely filling lettuce and it frankly, wouldn't be moroccan if we didn't crack a, few, eggs in there so make a few

Wells into, which will dump four whole eggs enjoy

A slightly, jarring point of view angle of our moroccan pasta bake

Before placing it in a 375-degree fahrenheit oven for about 20 minutes but

When you're, baking lettuce

Do time and temperature really matter and admittedly this is not that bad i actually had a few bites of it and?

Didn't hate it it is after all just

Alfredo, pasta with tomato e beans and eggs until i got to a piece of baked lettuce at

Which point i actually had to do a

Spit-take, sorry you had to see that but i'm sure that, we can pull something edible out of this monstrosity let's start

By, replacing the beans with garbanzo beans, which isn't cheating that badly since mark made homemade hummus earlier in the episode we're starting

By rinsing and drying a, whole can of garbanzo beans and tossing them with

olive oil and salt before spreading evenly on a non parchment lined baking sheet and

Roasting at 400 degrees fahrenheit for 20 to 30 minutes until browned and crisp at this point, while they're, still hot you can

Toss them with, any spice or seasoning that you want but in this case i'm going to toss them with a

Little bit of plain, sweet paprika so that's got our beans covered now, what about our tomato sauce element let's make?

Some moroccan ragu starting. By sauteing a small diced onion. A small diced red

Pepper brushing a clove of garlic in there and letting these guys sweat it out until fragrant and translucent at

Which point we're going to add a good pinch of cumin a

Good pinch of smoked paprika a hefty shake of cayenne and a generous jostling of turmeric. Let these flavors get to know

Each other just a little bit before adding

A 28 ounce can of whole san marzano tomatoes

Smash, them up and stew them down for about 30 minutes until the harsh raw tomato flavor has abated we're now

going to thoroughly

Puree our tomato sauce in a high our blender until extremely smooth set aside about half in a small saucepan

Keep it warm and in the remaining half we're going to add maybe a half cup of feta cheese this is acting as both our

Alfredo stand-in, and what is eventually going to be the glue for our pasta. Process thoroughly and butter two ramekins

Enthusiastically then we're, going to cook and drain about half a pound of thin spaghetti, add our feta sauce toss to combine

And twirl up some pasta nests into our buttered radicans then not with our?

Disgusting human, fingers but with our carving fork and spoon, we want to press the?

Well into the center of our pasta nest this is eventually, where the eggs are, going to go now

We're, going to bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes during, which time we're

Gonna, make, some simple sauteed spinach with, garlic, olive oil salt and pepper this is our lettuce stand in because i'll

Be damned if i'm eating hot lettuce again

Now our pasta nests have come out of the oven and they're ready to receive their

Eggs first start by running a paring a

Knife around the outside of the pasta preemptively to loosen it and then gently crack an egg into each of your premeditated

wells return to the oven and bake

For 10 to 15 minutes that are until the whites are set but the yolks are still running

Gently invert onto a warm interim plate, while

We get our main presentation going start by spooning some of our non feta sauce into a pool on the bottom of the plate top

With some of our sauteed spinach and into the center nestle our egg in its pasta nest finished

By, scattering some of our crispy roasted garbanzo beans around the outside and dig in. Now I gotta say,

This dish tastes about as good as it looks, which is pretty darn good but what really needs is a cocktail.

How about Mark's signature Rum, Water, Lettuce, Vinegar, and Salt cocktails? I think this is gonna be at the very least, oh-

God, no there's no improving on that

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