Monday, March 7, 2011

Vegetable Pasta with Desi Touch

This is simple Indian style pasta which is made with vegetables and  pasta with savory tomato puree which makes a very colorful and delicious dish. Here is my version of Vegetable Pasta. 

I used whole grain pasta which is rich in fiber


Ingredients

Pasta – 3 cups (Penne)
Tomato puree – 3tsps
Onion – 1 no
Tomato -1 no
Green chillies – 1 no
Mixed vegetables – corn, green peas, carrot, beans (1/2 cup)
Spring onions chopped – 2tsps
Red chilli powder As required
Salt As Requried
Garam masala – 1 tsp
Fresh Parmesan Cheese – 1 tsp
Coriander leaves – 2 tsp
Oil – 2 tsp



Preparation

  • Cook Pasta in boiling water with some salt in it.
  • After pasta gets soft remove from heat and strain the water completely.
  • Now in cooking vessel heat oil in a vessel add onion, green chillies, tomato and fry till onion turns soft.
  • Add tomato puree and cook for 5mins
  • Now add mixed vegetables. Spring onions and mix well
  • Add garam masala, chilli powder and salt.
  • Now add cooked pasta and mix well.
  • Garnish with coriander leaves.
  • Sprinkle some Parmesan cheese.
Sending this to Cooking with Seeds - Wheat hosted by Suma

33 comments:

  1. Nice n delicious..a fav in our household :)


    US Masala

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  2. my kids enjoy regular pasta and we make this for us....always a good alternative...looks delish!

    Smitha
    Smitha's Spicy Flavors

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  3. Healthy and colorful veggie pasta.

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  4. Nice version ,love this will try it...

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  5. Lately I have been eating lots of pasta...so this desi version sounds too good to me.

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  6. delicious version!!! I was looking out for simple pasta recipe to make this week for the eve & this is perfect!!! Will try it out n let u know how it turns out..;)
    Prathima Rao
    Prats Corner

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  7. beautifully clicked and love the addition of cheese in pasta.

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  8. Desi version sounds absolutely fabulous...lovely..

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  9. Beautifully captured, looks yummy!

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  10. Great idea to give the indian twist to Pasta..Looks soo yummy..
    The first click is superb..

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  11. what a yummy veg pasta... pictur perfect...

    Dish Name Starts with F
    Learning-to-cook
    Regards,
    Akila

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  13. Looks so yummy and nice presentation....

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  14. Can have this anytime... Desi touch is the best all time favie...

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  15. I shud start making these kinda dishes. Must be yumm.

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  16. Lovely and colorful dish! Simple and rich!

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  17. colourful and flavourful pasta delicious

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  18. Looks delicious. First time here, you have a great space dear.

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  19. love the desi version of anything..pasta looks great

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  20. different version of pasta!!nice recipe

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  21. Desi version of pasta looks great...

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  22. Pasta looks fabulous.cute pictures.

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  23. Slurp, thats an inviting and tempting pasta...

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  24. Delicious looking Pasta!!! my all time favorite

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  25. Will surely try this version, looks delectable

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  26. Would you like to send this to my event. archived entries are welcome

    http://ramyasrecipe.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-first-event-fusion-foodpasta.html

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