Kyle S asked:
Is Outback Steakhouse’s No Rules Parmesan Pasta Dish vegetarian? It tastes as if they might use a little seafood stock for the sauce. Can anyone that has experience working at an Outback Steakhouse find this out for me or answer me this? I took one bite and spit it in a napkin, but the rest is sitting in my fridge waiting either for the trash can or my stomach. Thanks!
No– parmesan cheese contains rennet (also called “enzymes”), which come from the 4th stomach of slaughtered baby veal calves. Many vegetarians do eat cheese, and most don’t realize it contains animal sourced ingredients. You can buy certain cheeses made with microbial rennet, which comes from a plant, but parmesan is typically made with animal rennet. I don’t know if Outback uses stock in the sauce or not, but the cheese would quite likely contain the rennet from animals.
Parmesan isn’t vegetarian!