Monday, September 14, 2009

International Food Feast - Italian Mint Pasta

Broccoli pasta3


The next on International food feast is Italian Spaghetti pasta :) The first dish that comes to my mind when I say Italian is Pasta. I just love it.

Right from childhood, I have been in love with anything that resembles noodles. Now the latest crush is on
Spaghetti pasta. :)

The aroma of mint!
Cheesy texture!
Health quotient of broccoli!
All in the noodle form!

ummmmmmm thats a perfect dinner :)


Ingredients:

Spaghetti pasta - 250 gms
Broccoli - 250 gms
Mint leaves - 1 bunch
Garlic - 5 pods
Jalapeno(Chilly) - 2
Paprika - 1/2 tsp(optional)
Chilly sauce - 1 tsp(optional)
Olive oil - 4 tbsp

Cheddar Cheese
Salt - for taste



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Method:

Cook the pasta in boiling water for 8 min. Drain excess water and keep it aside. Cut broccoli into florets and cook in hot water for 5 min and drain it. Grind mint leaves and chilly finely adding some water and adequate salt to it.

In a pan take three spoons of cooking oil and add the chopped garlic and fry for a while. Then add the ground mint leaves paste to it and fry for few min. Now add the broccoli, cooked pasta, paprika and olive oil to it and saute well. Finally grate cheese over the pasta and serve it hot :)

Happy making. :)




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Now for the awards:

Thanks to Chaitra of Aathidhyam for honoring me with this award for my entry for the rice feast event. :)


Thanks to Kitchen queen for passing me this award. I am honored and happy for your encouragement.


Written by: Nithya
post your queries to fourthsensesamayal@gmail.com

40 comments:

  1. Congrats Nithya. U deserve it.I love the paste.

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  2. Oooooo la la la la.... "eccellente!! ferro!! figurone!! fiocco!! meglio!! salute!!sopraffino!! "

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  3. Yummy yummy...looks delicious dear. And congrats on winning.

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  4. Oh Wow Pasta looks delicious and so flavorful!
    Congratulations on winning :)

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  5. Delicious pasta dish! droolworthy..congrats on ur awards..

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  6. Congrats for winning best picture..award..the pasta looks yummy.

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  7. That's a very creative way to use mint. Congratulations on the award!

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  8. OMG it's my fav. looks so tempting beautiful pic. I can imagine the mint aroma yummmmm.

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  9. Hey congrats on ur well deserved award. Pasta, what to say really awesome!

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  10. Nithi Looks so good and so much tempted..Aadavans fav food.. Broccoli tree looks great.

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  11. Once again nice recipe n wonderful click...congrats for the award.

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  12. Congrats for the award...

    Your mother would be too proud that you receive so many awards daily.

    My mother said " what Abhi, blogs and awards... vere pani onnum ille"(what Abhi, blogs and awards... dont you have any other work)

    Mothers mothers... always sweet :)

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  13. This is so tempting..shall try your minty spagetti..lovely.

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  14. congrats - and mint pasta sounds so unique

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  15. Congrtas on ur award.U really deserve it dear.U r the one giving nice presentations.I never saw like this presentation.Keep it up dear.

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  16. Congrats for the award...
    Pasta looks yummy...

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  17. congrats nithya for ur award and nice presentation.

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  18. yummy pasta! Great presentation as always. Congrats on the well deserved award :)

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  19. Wow.. delicious delight and diff combo.. as usual fantastic presentation!

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  20. விà®°ுத்துக்கு வாà®´்த்துகள் நித்யா...


    à®®ிகவுà®®் கலக்கலாக இருக்கின்றது பஸ்தா...சூப்பர்ப்..

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  21. பாஸ்தா கலக்கலா இருக்கு நித்யா.

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  22. yummy recipe and a great presentation. good job!!

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  23. Congrats on ur well deserved Awards dear ....Italian pasta is my favourite too...looking yumm.

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  24. Nice recipe...surely would be delicious

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  25. Vwey interesting pasta Nithya....simple and easy to make too....I have some fusilli pasta in my pantry...I could your recipe with that :)

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  26. Pls collect honest scrap award from my blog

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  27. congrats for your award. pastha is looking yumm

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  28. Yummy mint pasta dear... Nice click..

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  29. Great looking Pasta, Nithya!Mint is always refreshing!

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  30. mmm...minty ,love the flavor combo in the pasta :)

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  31. Oh Wow Pasta looks delectable and so flavorful!
    Congratulations on winning :)

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  32. You are too good when it comes to presenting a dish..every time I hop on here I come across beautiful looking dishes..:)

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  33. nice n neat presentation...congrats on the award too

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  34. Yummy mint pasta, looks delicious. Congrats on the award.

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