Monday, February 16, 2009

Quick and Easy Pasta sauce

Don't have pasta sauce at home.Try this easy recipe .
Microwave 6-7 red plum or regular tomatoes for 8-10 minutes.
Peel the skin and grind them .
In a pan take little butter/olive oil .
Add 1/2 cup chopped onions and minced/lengthwise sliced garlic(about 4-5)
Saute them but make sure it does not turn golden brown just lightly saute it and add tomato pureeto it .
Add pasta seasoning ,salt according to taste and little oregano .let it simmer for a while .
Addb little tomato ketchup and Home made pasta sauce is ready to mix in pasta.
one can also add cream/malai in this .

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Tri-color pasta

Pasta bow shaped farfalla pasta (Butterfly shaped )
2 cups pasta cooked al-dente (perfectly cooked not mushy ,not hard ).
1 cup peas
1 cup cut caroots
1/2 cup bell pepper
1 cup onions thickly sliced
3-4 cloves of garlic lengthwise sliced
1 1/2 tblsp soya sauce
1/2 tblsp vinegar
Cook pease and carrots in 1 tbls olive oil ..once half cooked add garlic and onions saute for while
till it turns light golden brown add cooked pasta .
Add Soya sauce ,vinegar .

And mix well .

Simple Tomato Chutney

My Simple Tomato Chutney in 2 minutes
4 tomatoes ,2 cloves of garlic and 1 dry red chilli .Grind it with salt and pepper .

Chutney is ready serve it with tandoori fish ,tikka or chicken .