Spicy Pasta – Quick Dish

This is a quick and easy pasta recipe – really handy for those days when you are hungry and don’t want to spend too long preparing food.  This one is also a favourite with children.

To make cooking easier – I tend to use American cup measurements .  It makes cooking a lot easier as you don’t have to weigh the ingredients. In the case of this recipe, you can estimate a lot of the ingredients and make it to your taste.

Ingredients for 2 Servings

Time 30 minutes

• 2 cups of  pasta  (you can use penne or Fusilli Pasta)
• 1 cup any mixed vegetables
• 2 cups passata (Passata made from ripe tomatoes that have been puréed and sieved to remove the skin and seeds and is available in all supermarkets)
• 2-3 cloves of garlic – use a garlic press and blend the garlic
• 4-5 spring onions – finely chopped 1 small finely chopped sweet chile pepper or jalapeno
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon turmeric
• 1 teaspoon coriander and cumin powder (dhana jeeru)
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 -3 teaspoons olive oil
• ½ teaspoon oregano

Method:

1 Cook the pasta and mixed vegetables together by boiling them in hot water with some ½ teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon olive oil.

2. Once cooked, drain off the water.