Spicy Sweet Pasta Delite

Ingredients:
Pasta(Preferably Spirali) 250gms
Capsicum 1 no.
Carrots 1 Medium sized ones
Tomato 1 small one
French beans 10
Green peas 1 cup(Cook these separately in water)
Sweet Corn ½ Cup
Onions 2
Green chilly 4
Chilly powder 1 Tsp
Pepper As needed

Method:

This is a really easy pasta dish and its got loads of veggies…J Look at the pic below. You can add or remove more vegetables as and how you like.

The first thing you need to do is boil the water for pasta. Take a large vessel and boil water for pasta. One it is boiling, add a spoonful of oil to prevent the pasta from sticking to its base once cooked. Add the pasta in with a table spoon of salt and cook for the time specified on the packet, generally around 10 minutes. (I personally feel that cooking the pasta for a couple of minutes more than the specified time is ideal because it makes it a little softer). Once done, strain the pasta and cool it by running cold water through it. This makes sure that all the pieces are separated from each other.
Cut all the vegetables in long strips as you can see in the picture. Heat some oil in a pan and add the green chilly and onions. Add a dash of salt as it extracts the water from the onions, thus making it cook faster. Once the onions turn a light brown, add the tomatoes finely chopped. Cook until the oil separates. Now, add the chilly powder and cook for a minute. To this add the capsicum and beans. Cook for around 3 minutes. Now add the carrots and continue the same until the beans are cooked. (We add the veggies in this order because they have different cooking periods and once the beans is done, the rest will be. Now add the green peas and loads of pepper. By now the pan must be dry. Add half a cup of water and bring it to a boil. To this add the sweet corn and salt. Cook the corn for only around two minutes. Now to this, add the cooked pasta.
Tada!!!!

Methi Rice

This is a very simple recipe that takes hardly half an hour to make. It has three different types of green leaves that makes this a healthy but scumplicious dish. Check the leaves out in the image below.

Ingredients:

Onion 1 Large (Chopped)

Ginger Small piece (Finely chopped)

Garlic 2 (Finely chopped)

Green Chilly 4(Split sideways)

Rice 2 Cups

Methi leaves 1 Cup

Coriander leaves 1 Cup

Mint Leaves (Pudina) 1 Cup

Method:

Take the pressure cooker and heat 2Tbsp of oil in it. Now, add the green chilly to it and cook for about five seconds. Add the onion, ginger and garlic and cook for about 20 seconds. Add the rice(washed and drained) along with the leaves(Coarsely chopped) and fry for about a minute. Now, pour four cups of water and close lid of the pressure cooker. Switch it off after the first whistle and wait for it to open. Methi rice is done! TADA!!!

Chicken Mushroom Fiesta

Ingredients:

Phase 1 (Chicken)

Chicken 1 whole chicken(cut into medium sized pieces)

Curd 200gms

Chilly powder 1 tsp

Pepper powder 2 tsp

Turmeric powder ½ tsp

Jeera Powder ¼ tsp

Garam Masala 1 tsp

Soy Sauce 2 tsp

Coriander Leaves 4 prigs

Cashew nuts 8

Whole pepper 10

Phase 2 (Vegetables)

Onions 2 (Sliced into thin pieces)

Button Mushroom 200gms (Sliced horizontally)

Green Peas 50gms (boiled)

Green Chillies 4(Split horizontally)
Pepper powder 2 Tsp

Ginger A ½ inch piece (Finely chopped)

Garlic 4(Finely Chopped)

Method (Phase 1):

Initially mix the ingredients marked in red and marinate for 3-4 hours. Once done, take 2 prigs of coriander, the whole pepper, the cashew nuts and a little water and grind it to a paste. Heat a little oil in a pan and cook the paste for a minute. To this add the marinated chicken and cook it on a medium flame for around half an hour and then in max flame for another ten minutes to thicken the gravy. Add the last two prigs of coriander finely chopped into the gravy. This will result in a nice green color as shown in the image.

Method (Phase 2):

Heat some oil and add the ginger, garlic, chilly and cook for 30 seconds. Add the onions and cook until it turns a golden brown. To this, add the mushroom pieces, cooked peas and cook on high flame WITHOUT closing it with a lid until the mushroom is cooked and is dry. Keep this aside. This will look as shown in the image.

NOTE: The cooking part after the marinated chicken is ready, should proceed in parallel for both phases.

Once the chicken gravy has thickened, add the mushroom and pea mixture from phase2 into phase1 to complete the experience.

The chicken mushroom fiesta is served!!!

The following are images post completion: