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Easy veg pasta with homemade sauce

Easy veg pasta with homemade sauce 

Ingredients:

Tomato - 4 (large)
carrot - 1/2 cup
Capcicum - 1/4 cup (cubed)
Sliced onion - 1/4 cup
Minced garlic - 1 tsp
Olive oil/ Oil  - 2 tbsp
Butter - 1tbsp 
Dried basil - 1 tsp
Oregano - 1 tsp
Red chili flakes - 1 tsp
Salt to taste 
Grated cheese of your choice 1 cup OR Cheese slice - 7 
Pasta of your choice - 2cup
Water as required

Method:

1. Boil  water in a heavy bottom pan . Make X cut on bottom of tomatoes and add it into boiling water. Cook it for 3 minutes.

2. Take out tomatoes after 3 minutes of boiling and pour water on tomatoes to prevent further cooking by heat inside.

3. Peel the skin of  tomatoes. We had made X cut for easy peeling. Remove seeds of tomatoes if you don't like it. Add tomatoes into a mixer and grind it without adding water. Tomato puree is ready.

4. Meanwhile , add carrot into boiling water and cook for a minute. You can use same water that used to boil tomatoes.

5. After removing carrot, add 1 tbsp of oil and salt into the water. Add pasta and cook as per instruction on pasta packet. Drain water and add 1 tbsp of oil and mix well. It will prevent pasta from sticking up each other.

6. While cooking pasta, let's make sauce. Add butter into a large pan . When butter melts, add minced garlic and saute it until the raw smell of garlic gone.

7. Add onion and saute it for a minute. Add capcicum and saute for a minute.

8. Add tomato puree and bring  to boil. add carrot , salt , red chili flakes , basil and oregano. Mix well. Switch off the stove.

9. Add cheese slices and let it melt completely. Mix well. The sauce is ready.

10. Add cooked pasta and mix well.  Sauce should be coated well on each pasta.

11. Serve immediately.

Note:

1. Always keep stove in lowest heat or switch off the flame, before adding cheese. There is a chance to separate protein content from cheese if it is exposed to high heat suddenly.
 You can use any cheese that you like. Grate the cheese and add it into the sauce. Cheese has salt in it . So add salt carefully.

2. You can increase or decrease chili flakes. You can add pepper if you don't like red chili flakes.

3. If you are not using pasta , after cooking it then pour chilled water on it and toss it with some oil. It prevents pasta from further cooking by  heat inside and oil will prevent pasta to stick each other.

4. Always use ripe tomatoes to make sauce.

5. I used farfalle type pasta here. Also known as bow-tie or butterfly pasta, farfalle is perfect for cream-based sauces or in pasta salads. This pasta is said to date back to the 1500s, originating in Northern Italy. You can use any type of pasta that you like.

6. You can add olive, broccoli, corn etc. You can add chicken , prawns also with this if you like.

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