Saturday, April 23, 2011

White Pasta with vegetables - Italian Style

This is a delicious dish that can be served as dinner with vegetables of your choice.



Ingredients
Pasta ( Hollow tubular ) See the picture.
Chopped Vegetables - Onion, French beans, Carrot, bell pepper your choice, Tomato (remove the pulp )
Garlic paste little ( optional )
Olive Oil to give authentic Italian taste (optional ) can use regular cooking oil too
Black Pepper crushed
Butter as per taste
Mayonnaise / cheese ( either of them is needed for white pasta)
Salt to taste

Preparation
  1. Cut all the vegetables long and thin. Can steam carrot, beans with the color still retained, or just half cook with very little water.
  2. Boil water and add the pasta with little salt for 8 - 10 minutes with occasional stir. Do not over cook. Take one and poke with fork to check if its done.
  3. Drain the water from the boiled pasta, and run cold water on top a little. mix with little Olive oil or what ever oil you use to prevent them from sticking.
  4. Heat butter in a pan, add the onion saute for a minute add other vegetables except tomato and saute for 2 more minutes. Add salt at this stage.
  5. Add pepper, mix well add the tomato toss a little bit. Add the pasta. Toss again, do not saute so much this would break the pasta.
  6. Add mayonnaise/cheese toss well, check the salt. Add salt / pepper if needed. 
Its done, and ready to be eaten. Serve hot.

2 comments:

  1. Very nice Nimmy,
    One Suggestion :- please add nutritional importance of each of your receipes.

    Sabitha :)

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  2. Very Nice Nimmy,

    One suggestion :- please add Nutritional Importance of each of your receipes.

    Sabi :)

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