You can adjust the thickness and consistency by adding more or less water, and
add other ingredients too to adjust the flavors.
You can also play around with
adding other ingredients into the mix: a few tablespoons of chia seeds, a handful of coconut, even some chocolate chips.
You can also change your pasta to make it your own
by adding other ingredients such as diced mozzarella, toasted pine nuts, pitted black olives, or instead of the diced plum tomatoes I used, choose a combination of red and yellow halved cherry tomatoes.
Unfortunately this slows down our bottling capacity, but it is the only way that we can stabilize this product
without adding any other ingredients possibly affecting the delicate flavor profile of this product.
For example, when I cook black beans in the slow cooker, I cook them on high for 12 hours, so if you wanted to do that, you would cook just the beans and then
add the other ingredients at the end.
I love making this salad ahead of time for lunches by putting the meat, dressing, and nuts on the bottom of a quart size mason jar and
adding the other ingredients on top.
I just sauteed the onions and garlic first, then browned the chicken for a couple minutes — I used thighs — and then
added the other ingredients + 5 cups chicken broth and let it simmer for about 30 minutes.
It takes 1/2 a day to make this and you need at least a 6 quart pot, I used a 4 and had to take some of the liquid out so I could
keep adding other ingredients.
You can either cook and shred the roast ahead of time, then cook the soup all together for 4 - 6 hours, or, you can start the roast in the crockpot and
add all other ingredients half - way through.
All you need to do to make this recipe is skin and chop a small pumpkin, remove the seeds and then steam / simmer it until soft and then
add the other ingredients so that it can soak up the seasonal flavors.
Companies
sometimes add other ingredients and often base marketing campaigns around these, but these ingredients have no proven benefit, otherwise they would be included in the composition requirements.