Ingredients for Pasta:
Pasta (uncooked) - 500 gms
Water - Enough to cook the pasta
Oil - 1-2 teaspoons
Salt - One tbsp.
Ingredients for the Sauce:
Carrots - 2 (big ones)
Capsicum - 1
Onions - 2 (medium sized)
Broccoli - 2 flowers
Baby corn - a bunch (optional)
Mushrooms - a handful (optional)
Potato - 1 (medium sized)
Chillies -2 (optional)
Ginger - A medium sized piece
Garlic - 1 or 2 pods (optional)
Oil - 4-5 tbsps.
Salt - As required
Mushroom Sauce (Condensed soup) - 2 cans
Method:
Cooking the Pasta:
1. Take enough water in a vessel, add salt, oil and heat it
2. When the water is boiling add in the pasta.
3. Keep stirring it for the first 2-3 minutes since the pasta tends to catch at the bottom of the vessel.
4. After 10-12 mins, pick out a pasta and squeeze the centre of it.
5. If the centre is soft and the pasta breaks, then the pasta is cooked.
6. Switch off the gas and transfer the pasta to a colander to drain the hot water.
7. The most important step is to wash this pasta using COLD water. (Just turn on the tap on the pasta and wash it thoroughly. This will prevent the pasta from sticking together).
Making the Sauce:
1. Cut the onions and capsicum into strips. Reserve.
2. Wash, peel and cut carrots and potates into strips. Cut the broccolli into flowerettes.
3. If using baby corn, break them into one inch pieces.
4. If using musrooms, clean them and cube them.
5. Grind the ginger and chilli into a paste with garlic, if using.
6. Heat oil in a kadai, add the ginger/chili paste and saute it.
Pasta (uncooked) - 500 gms
Water - Enough to cook the pasta
Oil - 1-2 teaspoons
Salt - One tbsp.
Ingredients for the Sauce:
Carrots - 2 (big ones)
Capsicum - 1
Onions - 2 (medium sized)
Broccoli - 2 flowers
Baby corn - a bunch (optional)
Mushrooms - a handful (optional)
Potato - 1 (medium sized)
Chillies -2 (optional)
Ginger - A medium sized piece
Garlic - 1 or 2 pods (optional)
Oil - 4-5 tbsps.
Salt - As required
Mushroom Sauce (Condensed soup) - 2 cans
Method:
Cooking the Pasta:
1. Take enough water in a vessel, add salt, oil and heat it
2. When the water is boiling add in the pasta.
3. Keep stirring it for the first 2-3 minutes since the pasta tends to catch at the bottom of the vessel.
4. After 10-12 mins, pick out a pasta and squeeze the centre of it.
5. If the centre is soft and the pasta breaks, then the pasta is cooked.
6. Switch off the gas and transfer the pasta to a colander to drain the hot water.
7. The most important step is to wash this pasta using COLD water. (Just turn on the tap on the pasta and wash it thoroughly. This will prevent the pasta from sticking together).
Making the Sauce:
1. Cut the onions and capsicum into strips. Reserve.
2. Wash, peel and cut carrots and potates into strips. Cut the broccolli into flowerettes.
3. If using baby corn, break them into one inch pieces.
4. If using musrooms, clean them and cube them.
5. Grind the ginger and chilli into a paste with garlic, if using.
6. Heat oil in a kadai, add the ginger/chili paste and saute it.
7. Add in the onions and saute them until cooked.
8. Next add in the capsicu and saute them until they are cooked.
9. Now add in the reminder of the vegetables, add salt, mix them thorougly and cover it to be cooked.
10. No need to add water, since the salt releases enough water for the vegetables to cook. ( If you think that there is less water, then add in 1/4 cup of water)
11. Keep stirring this vegetables on and off until they are well cooked.
12. Now add in the mushroom sauce.
13. Mix this thorougly with the vegetables and let it cook until one or two bubbles come up in the sauce.
14. Switch off the gas as soon as the bubbles are formed.
15. Take some pasta in a bowl, add in this sauce, mix it and you are ready to have lunch/dinner.
Hey.. This looks good.. I have always wanted to try this dish. Do you have any suggestions to replace this mushroom sauce? Let me know if something else can be used instead. Nice pictures.. Quite a colourful nutritious dish.
-Ananya Mahadevan
You can try with tomato sauce.
Kannu,
I remember you making this dish about 10 years back in Singapore [1999]. And this was wonderful. But I read in today's NY times that Campbell's soup can contains BPA and it should be avoided. So, write a recipe to do a home made soup. And avoid canned foods in all your recipes from now on.
I wish I can just live next door, eating out your food and yakking constantly. Take care,
Ganesh