Pasta is always loved by kids and its my all time easy to make dish .. My daughter loves pasta and I wanted to try something Indianized style with these so I came up with this yummy recipes.. This idea was given by my hubby 🙂 he likes paneer a lot n just wanted me try this … thank u so much Mr. hubby for this wonderful idea as it tasted so good ….
Lets quickly look for the ingredients needed so tat you can hurry to the pantry n try this yummy pasta 🙂
Paneer Tikka Pasta
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Preparation time
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Pasta Recipes
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1-2 hr
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15 mins
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Ingredients Pasta – 1 cup (elbows pasta)
Water – 3 cups
Chopped capsicum – ¼ cup (Finely chopped )
Chopped capsicum – ¼ cup (Finely chopped )
Tomatoes puree- ¼ cup
Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tsp
chilly flakes – 1/2 tsp
oregano – 1/2 tsp
Mozzarella cheese- 1 tbsp
Cumin pd- 1/2 tsp
Chilly powder/ hot sauce – 1 tsp
Garam masala – ¼ tsp
Tomato ketchup – 1 tsp
Oil- 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Coriander leaves ( chopped)- for garnishing
For the Marinating Paneer
12-15 cubes of Paneer
3 tbsp Thick/Hung Curd
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
1 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Garam masala powder
1/2 tsp Dried kasturi methi leaves (optional)
1 tsp Lemon juice
Salt to taste
1 tsp Oil
Method
For the Marination :
- Take your thick yogurt and transfer it to a muslin cloth, keep aside for 20 minutes, so all the water is removed from it. Mix the curd with masala powders, kasoori methi, lemon juice and salt. Then add paneer to the yogurt mix and marinate for an hour.
How To Proceed
- In a deep pan heat water and bring it to a boil.
- Add pasta, salt and let cook for 8 minutes or as directed in the packet , until it is fully cooked (soft but firm).
- Drain the water.. drizzle some olive oil and mix them so that pasta (macroni) don’t stick with each other and keep aside.
- In a pan heat a some oil and shallow fry the marinated paneer till the outer layer is golden brown . Fry them and keep them on a tissue paper so that excess oil gets drained off.
- In a separate pan heat oil.Saute the capsicum till its half cooked (don’t over cook the capsicum).
- Next add the ginger garlic paste, tomato puree, chilli flakes, chilly powder/chilly sauce, salt,ga and oregano to it . saute till the mixture is cooked.
- Then add the fried paneer and cooked pasta and mix well..
- Toss everything together and sprinkle some grated cheese , garnish with coriander leaves.
Tips
- If you wish u can marinate the capsicum ,shallow fry them and include them in the recipe but i marinated only the paneer.
- You can even use tofu paneer ..and include other veggies like carrot , beans , peas etc..
