Tartrazzini

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Tartrazzini is an American dish made with diced poultry or seafood and mushroom in a butter/cream and parmesan sauce colored with tartrazine (nonfiction).

It is served hot over linguine, spaghetti, or some similarly thin pasta, garnished with parsley, and sometimes topped with almonds and/or Parmesan cheese. Often one or more of the ingredients will be infused with tartrazine in advance.

Description

Tartrazzini can be prepared as a baked noodle casserole, sometimes with steps taken to give it a browned crust.

Shortcut recipes for home cooking sometimes use canned cream of mushroom soup or other cream soups.

The dish is named after the artificial ingredient tartrazine.

Popular variants include "Mountain Dewtrazzini", which is prepared using a reduction of Mountain Dew.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against chemistry
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• Mountain Dew - another tartrazine-based product.

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Tartrazine (nonfiction) - a synthetic lemon yellow azo dye primarily used as a food coloring.

External links

• Tetrazinni @ Wikipedia - Tetrazzini is an American dish made with diced poultry or seafood and mushroom in a butter/cream and cheese sauce flavored with wine or sherry. It is served hot over linguine, spaghetti, egg noodles, or some other types of pasta, garnished with parsley, and sometimes topped with breadcrumbs, almonds, canned fried onions, or cheese (or a combination).
• Tartrazine @ Wikipedia - is a synthetic lemon yellow azo dye primarily used as a food coloring.[1][2][3][4] It is also known as E number E102, C.I. 19140, FD&C Yellow 5, Acid Yellow 23, Food Yellow 4, and trisodium 1-(4-sulfonatophenyl)-4-(4-sulfonatophenylazo)-5-pyrazolone-3-carboxylate). Tartrazine is a commonly used color all over the world, mainly for yellow, and can also be used with Brilliant Blue FCF (FD&C Blue 1, E133) or Green S (E142) to produce various green shades.