Wednesday, June 24, 2009

East meets West - Panner Pasta

So, I guess I took a couple of days break from our blog already. Today, I will try to give you recipe for a recipe combining the recipes of East and West.

Paneer Pasta
Making time – Active – 30 mins, preparation 30 mins
Serves - 4

Ingredients
For Pasta

Bow Tie Pasta – ½ box
Green Bell Pepper – ½
Red Bell Pepper – ½
Yellow Bell Pepper – ½
Zucchini -1
Carrots – 2
Panner – ½ pack (similar to Cottage cheese and you will find this in the freezer section of Indian stores)
Olive Oil – 2 Table spoons
All purpose Herbs – 2 Tea Spoons
Butter – ¼ stick

For Sauce
Tomatoes – 6 Large Plum tomatoes
Onion – ½ Large White onion
1 tin of Vegetable Starch

Process

Making the Sauce
Cut the Onions and tomatoes, take Olive oil in a pan, fry the onions till they are golden brown. Now add the sliced tomatoes and fry them along with the onions. Let it cool for about 5 mins and grind the onions, tomatoes and salt to taste and then add the vegetable stock to it and grind it for 2 mins.

Pasta
Bring 6 large cups of water to boil, add the bow tie pasta to it and cook the pasta for about 12-15 mins. Drain the water out of the pasta and keep it aside.
Peel the carrots and cut them into long thin slices , cut the other vegetables into long thin slices. Cook all the vegetables together after adding the butter. Once the vegetables are tender, add cubes of panner, the sauce to the mix and let it boil for about 5 mins. Now add the pasta to the sauce and serve it hot.

You can add any other vegetables like Green beans, Mushroom, Potato etc.

Enjoy the Paneer Pasta

1 comment:

  1. I am looking forward to trying this recipe and I have posted it on our site as well at http://www.vegan123.com. Thank you for this!

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