Tuesday, April 20, 2010

FUSSILY PASTA WITH MARINARA SAUCE


This recipe is is easy to prepare in less time and i hope kids love this dish.

serves for 4

Ingredients :

Fussily Pasta 1/2 box (use any pasta)
Cream Cheese 3 tsp
Green Peas frozen 1/2 cup Button mushrooms 10-12 sliced (use any kind of vegetables like sliced celery, green pepper, cauliflower, snow peas or even spinach)
Broccoli 10-12 florets
Red pepper flakes
Butter or olive oil
2 cloves thinly chopped garlic
1 1/2 cup marinara sauce
Salt
Pepper
Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese for garnishing

Directions :

Cook the pasta in a large pot of boiling salted water until tender but still firm to the bite.
Note :To store boiled pasta for a week add 1 tsp of olive oil to the pasta and store it in air tight container and keep it in fridge and use it.
Heat oil in a medium size pan.
Add olive oil or butter to pan,once oil is hot add garlic to the pan.
saute garlic for a minute, add sliced mushrooms and broccoli let them cook for 5 minutes.
Add Green peas and cook for 2 minutes.
Add cream cheese and allow it to melt then add salt, pepper and red peper flakes for extra spicy.
Add marinara sauce or plain tomato sauce and allow it to cook for 3-4 minutes.
Drain the pasta,. Add the pasta to the sauce and toss to coat. stir in the parsley and serve.
When ready to serve grate parmigiana Reggiano cheese and serve it.
When you taste this recipie u feel like this is the best and no need of searching for restaurent pasta dishes, because Its yummy and very light and ofcourse its so easy to prepare.




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