Spinach pasta

Spinach pasta

I couldn’t be more happier. This came out aweeesome !! Two reasons for my happiness. 1) I made pasta from scratch using normal chapathi flour, yess !! egg-less. 2) Pasta was just just just awesome…loved spinach and cream pasta..I promise I never wont use pasta from market again(the maida one )  .  Here is the recipe. This recipe I got it from vicky ratnani’s (NDTV good times ) recipes.

INGREDIENTS :-

Pasta :-

Wheat flour :- 2 cups

Water :- enough to make chapati dough.

Oil :- to brush the flour, i guess just apply to your palms that’s it

Make a nice chapathi dough, brush your hands with oil and apply to chapathi dough well and keep it in fridge for 3-4 hours.

Sauce :-

Amul cream/Milk cream :- small packet(1)

Milk :- small cup around(1-2 tablespoons)

Spinach :- a bunch

Salt :- as required

Butter :- 1 teaspoon

Garlic pods :- 4-5 (chopped finely)

Lettuce :- 2-3 leaves

Onions :- 1 big chopped

Pepper corns :- 6-7 ( made into coarse powder)

Red chillies :- 3-4 (Adjust)

Olive oil :- 1 tablespoon

Capsicum (red and yellow, you can use green too ):- all total 1 cup

Broccoli :- 2 big florets chopped

Cheese :- 2 teaspoons or 1 wedge or 1 slice

METHOD :-

1. Roll out chapati dough using a pin into flat big chapathi. Make it not too thin, not too thick . Medium level thickness is fine. Dust it well with flour so that it doesn’t stick to the surface.
2. Cut into fine ribbons.
3. Mean while heat a pan with sufficient water and bring it to boil.
4. Carefully place the ribbons into water and allow it to boil well.
5. Now drain out water and add a dash of olive oil to the boiled wheat ribbons aka our pasta and keep aside
6. Take another pan with water and blanch spinach in it.
7. In a frying pan add 1/2 olive oil, add onions and lettuce and saute it for a while.
8. Add chopped garlic and red chillies and blanch it for 3-4 minutes.
9. Now grind together blanched spinach, onion-lettuce-garlic-red chillies and pepper corns into smooth paste, keep aside.
10. In the frying pan add remaining olive oil, add all veggies , capsicums , broccoli and saute them for 4-5 minutes.
11. Add amul cream 1 tablespoon , cheese, and milk to the pan and mix well.
12. Add salt and ground spinach-onions mixture. Mix very well. Add butter.
13. Bring this mixture to boil.
14. Now add boiled pasta and mix well until its well coated.
15. Garnish it with pepper corns, olives, pasta seasoning.