White pasta

White pasta

Today let us see how to make white sauce pasta with very minimal ingredients .white sauce pasta is creamy Italian pasta, here pasta is tossed with pepper and some veggies.  

I used capsicum and sweet corn in this recipe and you can also add broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and red/yellow capsicum etc, according to your taste buds, but don’t Miss Sweet corn as it adds taste to your pasta.

Here I used butter to saute my veggies, adding butter will give you creamy taste in your pasta.

White pasta

White pasta recipe – Ingredients

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 25 minutes

Serves: 3

Needed:

Pasta: 1 ½ cup

Sweet corn kernels: ½ cup

Capsicum: green capsicum, finely chopped 3 spoons.

Butter: 2 spoons

Maida: 1 spoon

Milk: 1cup

Pepper powder: ½ spoons

Salt: to taste

Oregano: 1/4 spoon

Method:

Step 1: add pasta in a bowl of water and cook in a medium flame .Add 1 spoon of oil while cooking the pasta. Drain water and keep it aside by adding 1 spoon of oil again.

Step 2: cook corn kernels by adding water in a bowl, drain water and keep it aside.

Step 3: heat 1 spoon butter in a pan add sweet corn, add capsicum, pepper powder saute together .keep it aside

Step 4: heat one full spoon of butter in a pan, add Maida, sauté till raw smell of, Maida goes. (Do not make Maida brown), now add milk and mix well. Stir until the mixture becomes thick and creamy. Now add salt, pepper powder, oregano and mix well.

Step 5: Now add sautéed veggies to it and mix well and serve hot.

Crispy finger chips or French fries

Crispy finger chips or French fries

Finger chips are also known as French fries, It is the most popular snack or a starter made out of deep frying potatoes.

Step 1: wash and peel potatoes, cut it in to finger size thin long strips.wash those stripes in water for 2 mins and change the water and again wash it for 2 mins ,do the same for 3 to 4 times,so that the starch will be removed from the potato and now soak those potatoes for 1 hour (change water in between ,I did it every 15 mins)

Step 2: towel dry the potato strips for 30 minutes, those finger size strips should be completely dry before frying it in the oil.

Step 3: heat oil in a kadai. (The oil should be hot and don’t make the oil to smoke) once the oil is heated, keep the flame in medium or medium to low.

Step 4: now deep fry the potato strips,fry them in small sets.Take 5 min for each sets to cook and after it got cooked  remove from oil by using a slotted ladle to drain the excess oil out of it. keep the cooked potatoes to cool in a room temperature.

Step 5: after all those potato strips are cooled, heat oil again in a kadai ,the oil should be little hot than before and now put those cooked potatoes in side and deep fry them again to get crispy finger chips. (Fry them in sets like before).

Now transfer those fried finger chips to a serving bowl and sprinkle some salt and pepper to it. Serve it with a tomato sauce.

Now you will taste a very crispy mouth watering finger chips.

DRUMSTICK SAMBAR OR MURANGAIKAI SAMBAR

DRUMSTICK SAMBAR OR MURANGAIKAI SAMBAR

 Sambar is the most essential south Indian dish served with rice. Murangaikai sambar or Drumstick is one of the best sambar varieties. Drumstick gives a beautiful aroma while making sambar. 

These are the very simple steps to make drumstick sambar,

Step 1: pressure cook 1 cup of Toor dal by adding 1/2 spoon of cumin seeds,1/4 spoon of turmeric powder for 3 whistles, mash it using a ladle (0r mathu) and keep it aside.  

Step 2: cut drumstick in to 3 inch pieces, peel off 7 to 8 shallots(sambar onions), chop 1 medium size tomato and keep it aside.

Squeeze a plum size tamarind in 1 cup of water and add 2 spoons of sambar powder and salt in it. keep it aside.

Step 3: heat 3 spoons of gingerly oil in a sambar kadai or a pan, add mustard seeds, allow them to sputter ,add urad dal ¼ spoon, add some curry leaves,1/4 spoon of hing powder, add ¼ spoon of turmeric powder, add one chopped green chilli, peeled off shallots, sauté well until shallots turn transparent, now add chopped tomato and sauté until tomatoes becomes mushy ,now add  cut drumsticks and sauté well for 4 minutes and then pour 2 cups of water and cover the pan with a lid until drumstick gets cooked and becomes soft from inside.( open the lid and sauté in between).

 Step 4: Now the drumstick got cooked, now add 1 cup of tamarind water mixed with 2 spoons of sambar powder and salt.mix well, let them cook for another 5 minutes.

Step 5: Now add cooked and mashed Toor dal and mix well. Cook for 5 minutes in medium flame and garnish with coriander leaves.

 Remove from heat, transfer it to a serving dish and serve with rice.