Garlic Bread

Ingredients:

Salted butter;

Crushed Garlic ;

Brown Bread Slices;

Dried Oregano

Method:

Warm the butter and crushed Garlic together for 30 seconds in microwave. Mix well, keep aside to let it cool for sometime to come back in applicable form.

Take Brown Bread slices, apply the garlic butter, sprinkle oregano.

Keep in oven/ electric tandoor or even simple toasters and toast until crispy brown.

It doesn't look that nice, but taste very yummy, very much close to Domino's Garlic Bread. :)

Hariyali Aur Pasta

Yea, I am cooking too much Pasta these days. Reason: because I am almost on the verge of getting bored of it and finding a new handy recipe I can master and cook very often :D

So this time, it was Spinach Pesto. I have made the real Pesto many times, and watched it being cooked by Nigella Lawson, Vicky Ratnani and even David Rocco in their own manners with their own twists. So, the experimental me, decided to do it with my own twist. And nonetheless, the result was great. Or so I liked, or so everyone who tasted, said :D

And, Like every time, I cooked it like every other Indian woman. No Measurements, just the guts. :D

Pasta in Spinach Pesto:

Ingredients:

250 gm Pasta Boiled (any shape)

1 nos Onion- Chopped;

1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste;

2 handfuls of Spinach Leaves- Blanched;

Few leaves of Basil;

1 tsp Green Coriander Chutney

1/2 Cup Cheddar Cheese -Grated;

Olive Oil;

Method:

• Heat Some oilve oil in a pan. Add the chopped onion and ginger garlic paste and saute.
• Add the blanched Spinach leaves and saute for 2-3 minutes. Do not over cook.
• Take out the onion- spinach in a jar, add the cheese, basil leaves, salt, pepper, coriander chutney, few drops of lemon juice and blend into fine paste. Add a little olive oil  and blend again, so that the texture of the paste becomes smooth.
• Now, pour the paste into the same pan we used to saute onion- spinach, stir for around a minute on sim flame and add the boiled pasta.
• Mix well, coat the pesto on pasta nicely and let it stay on the flame for 3-4 minutes, occasionally stirring. 
• Take out on a serving dish, garnish with Basil leaves and serve hot with garlic bread.

The Outcome:

The Fiasco:
Zero :D

Dil Cheese Cheese kare!

I bought this oven some 4 years ago, but started using it properly, recently. I have doing Baking a lot these days, for a change and I am getting better at it :D Pasta, as the blog knows it, I love it. But I am kindda getting bored of the same Arrabiatta sauce pasta I cook very often. So, the brother wanted cheese pasta and the oven was crying for attention. :D I used Mozzarella cheese in this dish.

 Cheese Pasta:

Ingredients:

White sauce:

1 tsp Flour;

1 tsp butter;

1 cup milk;

1/3rd cup cheese

Pasta:

200 gms Penne Pasta boiled (or any shape pasta);

1/2 cup Chopped Onions;

1/2 cup Chopped Capsicum;

1/3 cup Chopped Carrots;

1/3 cup Chopped Mushrooms;
2-3 Garlic cloves crushed;

Olive oil; 

Salt and pepper- to taste; 

Cheese to garnish; 

Oregano

Method:

• Preheat the oven for 10 minutes.
• Grease a baking dish and keep aside.

For white sauce:

• In a pan, melt butter and roast the flour until light brown. 
• Start adding milk, little at a time. Keep stirring. 
• Add cheese, salt, pepper. Stir till you get the desired consistency. 
• Remove from the fire, keep aside.

For Pasta:

• In a separate pan, heat olive oil, add garlic and stir. 
• Add the veggies and stir fry. Add salt, pepper. 
• Add the boiled pasta. Put off the fire and mix nicely. 
• Pour the pasta and veggies into the white sauce and mix well so that pasta is coated properly. 
• Pour the mixture into the baking dish. Sprinkle oregano and cheese. 
• Bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes  or until cheese turns reddish brown.
• Serve hot with garlic bread.

The Outcome:

Cheese Pasta Fresh out of Oven

The Fiasco: Needless to say, None :D