Spicy ‘n’Creamy Veggie Pasta
Ingredients:
Rotini Pasta -2 cups carrot -1
red bell pepper -1/4 cup chopped
green bell pepper -1/4 cup chopped
green peas -1/4 cup
half n half -1/2 cup
mozarella cheese -1/4 cup
salt -to taste
For Sauce: frying & grinding:
onion -1 cup cubed
tomato -2 cups chopped
mint leaves -few
green chili -1
coriander powder-1/2 tsp
chili powder -1/4 tsp
cinnamon -1/4 inch
bay leaf – 1
clove -2
garlic clove -2
oil -1 tsp
Method:
- In a pot boil water and little salt and cook 2 cups of pasta until soft(cook per instructions as in pasta box)
- Drain the pasta and keep it aside.
- In a pan heat oil add cinnamon, cloves, bay leaves,ginger, garlic and green chilies.
- Fry onions until transparent.
- After 2 minutes add coriander powder, chili powder.
- Cook until mushy .
- Allow it to cool and blend it into a puree .
- For spicy veggie Pasta:
- In a pan melt butter ,and saute carrot,green bell pepper, red bell pepper,green peas for 4 -5 minutes.
- Add the blend puree and cook until oil oozes out.
- Add 1/2 cup of half and half/whipping cream and cook for a minute.
- Add the cooked pasta and mix well .Switch off the stove
- Sprinkle the mozarella cheese.
- Serve the Spicy’n’creamy Veggie Pasta hot.
Serves 2-4
