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

Back from the Hiatus with Pasta :D

Gone missing from this place has been hard for me, no cooking and still no weight loss. Yes. I guess there is something wrong with my body which is not showing in the diagnose until it gets worse. *phew*

So, that leaves me with very less time to eat, experiment cooking and taste. Also, I was watching 'Zayke ka Safar' with Vinod Dua while he was finding out zaykas in Hongkong. So, he said something what I always say. "Ek zindagi kaafi chhoti hai aap tak duniya bhar ke zayke pahunchane ke liye." (One lifetime is not enough for letting the tastes of world reach you). So true. So bloody true!!

It sort of inspired me and I put on that apron again. Starting with a low calorie my all time favorite food item.  

Pasta cooked the very basic Indian way. :D

Ingredients:

Pasta- any shape, 250 gms (approx.);

Onions- 2 nos (medium size)- chopped;

Tomatoes- 4 nos (medium size)- Pureed- in blender;

Capsicum- 1 nos (medium size);

Ginger garlic paste- 1 tsp;

Salt to taste;

Black Pepper to taste;

Dried Oregano- 1 tsp or to taste;

Olive Oil- 3 tbsp

Method:

• Boil the pasta in a pan with a little olive oil and a pinch of salt. Make sure the pasta isn't overboiled or underboiled. Sieve the boiled pasta under running water. Keep aside.
• In a pan, heat the olive oil and add the ginger garlic paste.
• Add the onions and stir fry until golden brown.
• Add the pureed tomatoes and the capsicum. Add salt, pepper and oregano. Let it simmer for few minutes. Keep stirring in between. Let the puree come in desired consistency. You may want your with gravy, if it gets dry, add some water and simmer.
• When the gravy reaches the desired consistency, add the pasta. Stir and let it mix in the gravy well. 
• Leave it for a 2-3 minutes on the fire while stirring in between before putting the gas off.
• Serve with garnishing of Basil Leaves.

The Outcome:

The Fiasco:

NONE :P

It was Yummeh!! :D