Spaghetti Hawaii

The BBC brought up this recipe as family friendly and very affordable.

The shitstorm on the internet was very fast.

I love the old German classic of Toast Hawaii. When I am in the mood, I eat Pizza Hawaii.

The new hype was right on my door step. Balance out the sweetness. It is to your own taste, if you like the pasta sauce a bit sweeter, take more of the pineapple water. Or use my method and add only a bit of it and more starchy pasta water. The chunks of pineapple just give a burst of flavour, not real sweetness. And they go very well together with the ham.

The BBC recipe uses canned ham, cubed. That is not available here. I used sliced cooked ham from the supermarket.

Recipe for 1:

130 g spaghetti, 100 g cooked ham

1/3 can pineapple chunks, 4 tbsp pineapple water

60 g cream cheese, 1 shallot, 1 garlic clove

1 tbsp butter, 60 ml starchy pasta water

Salt, pepper, Piment d'Espelette

Cook the spaghetti in only a bit salted water. The starch content of the water will be higher.

Melt butter in a large pan and saute the chopped shallot and garlic. After 3 min add the ham. When that gets a bit of color in with pineapple water and some of the pasta water. Melt the cream cheese in it. Season and chuck the pineapple chunks in. Get the spaghetti with tongs in the sauce. Stir well and serve.