Sunday, September 9, 2007

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!!!!

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