How to make fideo (non-traditional)

 Fideo is a traditional Mexican dish that is delicious and inexpensive to make.  It is a noodle dish with a cumin and tomato taste.  It is also relatively quick to make.  

My version is non-traditional since I use Spam and make the sauce separately.

Step 1 Gather your ingredients

Sauce Part
*  4 cups of water
*  4 chicken bouillon cubes of packets (each makes 1 cup bouillon)
*  6 ounce (oz) tomato paste
*  14.5oz can low sodium V8 or vegetable juice cocktail
*  1/2 teaspoon (tsp) salt
*  1/2 tsp pepper
*  3/4+ tsp cumin (can be increased to 1 tsp)

Noodle Part
*  3+ Tablespoons (Tbs) Light Cooking Oil
*  3+ Tbs garlic, minced (jarred or fresh, not dried)
*  1 cup yellow onion, chopped (Vidalia is best)
*  12-oz can of Turkey Spam, cubed
         (substitute: precooked chicken breast, or can be omitted)
*  12 to 16-oz fideo pasta
          (substitutes: fine egg noodles, vermicelli coils, angel hair pasta broken into 1" pieces)

Cooking items
*  2 quart saucepan
* 12" jumbo/deep skillet
      should be able to hold about 3-4 quarts.
      non-stick is best
* cutting board
* sharp knife
* measuring spoons for dry ingredients
* non-stick spatula

Comments

[Glad(to-meet-ya)ys]

Ha Im mexican =D
Thats not how i make it though.....
All i do is fry the noodles a little add tomato sauce, some tomato bouillion and salt to taste let it boil till the noodle are done =D its much faster and taste so good!!!!! I also eat it with pickled Jalapenos its taste even better =D

[Glad(to-meet-ya)ys]

Oh yeah I also put water... hehe i forgot to put that =D

[linlu]

I did say it was non-traditional up front! :)

[Glad(to-meet-ya)ys]

Oh sorry I didn't see that =]
I guess I gotta read the whole title =D

[linlu]

 Once you cut up your onions and spam, you can actually begin to sautée them while you start the sauce.  For my recent batch, I let the sauce boil then reduced the heat to low and let it simmer until I was ready for it.

[linlu]

 If you prefer your spam browned, start that first alone in the oil.  Then after it starts to brown a little, add the onions and garlic and continue to sautée until the onions are soft.

[linlu]

 My most recent batch probably had about 5-6 tablespoons of minced garlic and 1 teaspoon of pepper.  Very tasty!

[l8nite]

 It does look pretty good and from the list of ingredients should be rather tasty, personally Id probably add some heat in the form of chilis or hot sauce but Im going to try this really soon...