SPICY MACARONI PASTA

Recipe Source- MY DIARY!!

This "SPICY PASTA" just peps up your appetite, longing for more.......!!!

Ingredients

Macaroni	1 Cup
Peanuts(Raw)	1/2 Cup
Onion(Chopped)	1
Tomato Paste	1 Cup
Grated Cheese	1/4 Cup
Red Chilli Powder	1/2 tsp
Ginger Paste	1/2 Tbsp
Black Pepper Powder	1 tsp
Chaat Masala	1 tsp
White Sauce	1 Cup
Salt	1/2 tsp

For the White Sauce

Butter	1 Tbsp
All Purpose Flour	1 Tbsp
Mustard Seeds	1 tsp
Red Pepper Whole	3-4
Olive Oil	1 Tbsp
Milk	2 Cups
Salt	1 tsp

Method 

Prepare a white sauce. Take a heavy bottom pan. Heat butter and roast APF. Then add milk, stirring continuously, when mixture thickens, remove from heat. Add grated cheese, salt, black pepper powder and 1/2 cup tomato paste. Stir well and cover.
Boil macaroni with salt. Rinse it. Boil peanuts in salted water. 
Take a pan. Fry chopped onions till light brown. Add grated coconut, 1/2 cup tomato paste, ginger paste, salt and red pepper powder. Mix and cook for 2 min.. When it starts boiling add macaroni and peanuts. 
Stir lightly and add white sauce slowly. When it starts boiling pour into a serving dish and sprinkle cheese over it.
Heat oil in a frying pan. Add mustard seeds and whole red pepper, when it starts spluttering, pour over the macaroni. Garnish with coriander leaves and green pepper.

Sending this to Priya and Aipi’s "Bookmarked recipes Vol.50" and to Ramya's Fusion Food Pasta Event.

PENNE PASTA IN PAPRIKA SAUCE

The exotic and healthy pasta cooked in few minutes leaving it as moist and flavorful as cooked in its own juice.............!!!!! 

INGREDIENT

Penne Pasta	1 cup
Green Capsicum	1
Yellow Capsicum	1
Red Capsicum	1
Black Pepper Powder	1/2 tsp
Ginger Garlic Paste	2 tsp
Tomatoes (chopped)	2
Tomato Puree	1 Tbsp
Salt	to taste
Paprika	1 tsp
Butter/Olive Oil	1 Tbsp

METHOD

For Boiling

1.    Take seven to eight cups of water in a pan and add a bit of salt and 1 tsp olive oil to it.

2.    When the water boils over add the penne pasta to it. Boil for 5 min..

3.    Drain and allow to cool.

For Sauce

1.   Chop all the vegetables.

2.   Saute the three varieties of capsicum in olive oil in a pan until their skin turns crispy and brown.

3.   Add chopped onions to this mix and stirr.

4.   Add ginger garlic paste and saute for 2-3 min..

5.   Add black pepper powder and tomato chunks.

6.   Add salt and tomato puree and cook the mixture for 7-8 min. at medium heat. Until thickens the sauce.

7.   Add paprika and boiled pasta into the sauce until it coats very well.

8.   Sprinkle parsley over it and serve.

PENNE PASTA IN WHITE SAUCE

Yesterday my son told me that some of his friends would be visiting, so he asked  me to prepare something very tempting. So I went to the near by shopping mall where I saw color-full fresh bell-peppers.An immediate idea came to my mind to make PASTA for kids...... 

INGREDIENTS

Penne Pasta	250 gms
Green Capsicum	1
Yellow Capsicum	1
Red Capsicum	1
Boiled Baby Corn	100 gms
Mushroom	1/2 Cup (Diced)
Chilli Flakes	1 tsp
Oregano	1/2 tsp
Black Pepper Powder	1/2 tsp
Ginger Garlic Paste	2 tsp
Pasta Topping	1 tsp
Green Chilli Sauce	2 tsp
Butter	2 Tbsp
Mozzarella Cheese	1 Cup(Grated)
Pasta Topping	1 tsp
Maida	4 tsp
Milk	2 Cups
Salt	to taste

METHOD
For Boiling
1.    Take seven to eight cups of water in a pan and add a bit of salt and 1 tsp olive oil to it.
2.    When the water boils over add the penne pasta to it. Boil for 5 min..
3.    Drain and allow to cool.
For White Sauce
4.    Heat butter in pan. Add maida and saute lightly, taking care that it does not change color.
5.   Add milk, gradually, stirring continuously so that there are no lumps form.
6.   Cook untill thicken the sauce. Switch off the gas.
7.  Heat butter in a pan, add ginger garlic paste, saute it for 2 min..
8.   Add mushroom and all the three capsicums(cut length wise), saute until their skin turns crispy.
9.   Add salt, black pepper powder and half cup of water. 
10. Cook for 2 min.
11. Add pasta topping and boiled pasta.
12. Add oregano, chilli flakes and white sauce, mix it very well.
13. Add green chilli sauce and boiled baby corns.
14. Add grated cheese.