Vegetable Cheese Pasta || Salma (Kolkata) Recipe

Vegetable Cheese Pasta/ Red Sauce Pasta recipe

Time: Preparation 15 minutes, cooking 20-25 minutes.

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Ingredients

• Pasta - 250g
• Capsicum - 70g
• Onion (medium size) - 1
• Tomatoes (medium size) - 3
• Carrot - 50g
• Garlic - 6g
• Cooking oil - 3 tablespoon
• Basil leaves - 3
• Pasta masala - 1/2 tablespoon
• Tomato ketchup - 1 to 2 tablespoon
• Chili flakes - 1/2 teaspoon
• Black pepper powder - 1/2 teaspoon
• Oregano (optional) - 1 pinch
• Sugar - 1 teaspoon
• Cheese - 40g
• Salt to taste

Preparation

- Chopped the onion, carrot, capsicum into fine pieces

- Grate the garlic.

- To make the chili flakes, heat red chilies till it starts sending out strong a smell in a pan and crush it.

[You can use packed chili flakes also]

Cooking

- Boil water in a container on medium flame and add 1 tablespoon water & 1/2 tablespoon cooking
[Oil will prevent pasta from sticking with each other]

- Add the pasta in hot water and boil it for 8-10 minutes. By this time pasta will become little transparent and soft.
[Do not over cook pasta, to check press a pasta with a spoon edge, it will cut into 2 pieces]
- While pasta is getting boiled, prepare the tomato puree.
- Cut off the dry hard tomato mouths (stalk joints).
- Take a container and heat water in it.
- Put the tomatoes and boil it, till the skin of the tomatoes start coming off. Stop boiling at that point.
[It generally takes 5-6 minutes]

- Peel off the tomato skins.
- Cut the tomatoes into 4 pieces and grind them in a mixer-grinder to soft tomato puree.

- By this time, the pasta should be boiled.
- Strain the pasta and cool it with running tap water to stop the boiling process.
- Heat a pan on medium flame and add cooking oil, warm it.
- Add the grated garlic and saute for few seconds
- Add the chopped onion and saute for another 1/2 minute.
- Add the chopped carrots, mix them well and saute for another 2 minutes.
[till the carrots get little soft]
- Add the chopped capsicum.
- Add little salt for taste and saute for 30-45 seconds.
[Please note, pasta masala also contains salt, so add accordingly]

- Add the black pepper powder, chili flakes and oregano (if used). Mix them well
- Add the tomato puree, mix them and saute for few seconds.
- Add the pasta masala powder, basil leaves, tomato ketchup, little sugar and mix well.
[If you cannot get basil leaves, you can use dry basil herb]
- Add a cup of water and saute for another 2 minutes.
- Add 20g shredded cheese (any type you prefer) and then the boiled pasta.
- Mix well and saute to another 2 minutes. 

Cooking is complete, your delicious Veg Pasta is ready.
You must serve pasta hot, cold pasta do not taste good!

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