My kids love pasta, sphagetti's so much some time it makes life more easier, when I have to rush these are the most convenient dishes you can prepare, which they like to plunge into with cheese, I am not really a big fan of these but I can manage if there is nothing to eat or once in a while!!, Love to eat everything spicy, it is my comfort when it comes to food, when you have sauces ready in the fridge you can make these any time, I have been planning to post these from quite sometime but never had time to do it as always, so with hubby at home and cooking for us all I have lot of time at hand to contribute to my lovely blog!!, some dishes which are still in the draft mode, lying in my lists....
let me come to my lovely spirali and home made pesto recipe here how it goes....
SPIRALI WITH HOME MADE PESTO
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25g/1 oz fresh Basil leaves
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10g/1/4oz mint leaves
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2 large gralic cloves
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15 ml/ 1 tbsp Dijon mustard powder
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25 g/ 1oz / 1/4 cup pine nuts
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60ml/4 tbsp extra virgin Olive oil
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juice of 1/2 Lemon
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3 medium sized potatoes
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3/4 th cup green beans
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3/4 th cup broccoli florets
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4 cups of dried spirali pasta
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2 medium sized Tomatoes
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25 gms/ 1/4 cup pine nuts toasted
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salt as required
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ground black pepper as required
METHOD:
- Cook the potates in a pan with salted water, until it is just tender, peel the skin and cut into small cubes
- Cut the green beans into 2'' pieces and broccolis into florets and stem cook them just till tender
- Cook the spirali in a large pan of salted boiling water with a tbsp of oil so that they doesn't stick together until they are soft and tender, when draining reserve around 3/4th cup of the cooking water and keep aside.
- Drain and add a tbsp of oil and mix them toegther so they don't stick together
- Take a large pan or wok and return this pasta and reserved water to the pan, then add the precooked potatoes, beans, broccoli, pesto and stir until combined.
- Heat over a gentle heat for few minutes.
- In a pan take 2 tbsp of oil, stir in the chopped tomates and fry them till tender then season it with salt and pepper and add this to the spiralli mixture and combine well
- Until the pasta becomes a little dry and serve sprinkled with toasted pine nuts.
Rating: from my kids and friends who joined me that day was EXCELLENT
try it out you will love it, even I liked it!!!!!!
jayasri
hi lata, yup, my blogis still surviving with your wishes tooo.., yes I too am not a fan, but I love cooking them!!, I still have some more things I love trying.
Kitchen queen you must be joking it is not a good click at all !!
Hi Malar, family liked the taste of it, I should say they loved it !!
Hi Asha, thanks for visiting & the wishes, would love to see ur cooking and the writings !!, I definitely can understand about the events, I don't get time to participate !!
Hi jagruti, thanks for visiting, you have a very lovely blog dear, keep blogging
Hi Bharthy, I loved your Rice cake, I am going to do it soon, after buying Rosemetta !! soon, thanks a lot for your wishes,and I envy you that your basil is doing fine,mine keeps dying!!, do try it sometime!!
Bharathy
Thanks a Bunch for your lovely words, Sweetie! 🙂
Haven't tried Pasta yet..But I'm sure this would taste just Yummy! :)..in fact my sis had planted some basil, which is lush green now(seeds given by Deeba) in our mom's place..Mom really doesn't know what to do with basil, though she makes Pasta...I am going to tell her to try this..
Love your Recipe! 🙂
Jagruti
Hi Jayasri
pesto recipe looks good...I make too..nice blog..
please visit my blog
http://joyofcooking247.blogspot.com
Asha
Hi Jaya, thanks girl. Happy 2010 to you too.
I love Pesto too, looks so delicious. Thanks for visiting me. I will try and post regularly. I am just taking it easy on cooking for events for now, too much food if I start cooking for every event, you know how many there are now! 🙂
Malar Gandhi
Looks appetizing, sounds comforting to me.
kitchen queen
lovely and tempting dish with a good click.
lata raja
Hurray, your blog survived the wrongly clicked episode!
I loved the pesto...very aromatic! I am not a fan of pasta too...Just that the pesto and the veggies are very inviting!