Today I was so hungry and wanted to eat something very tasty and filling. I was missing pasta from so many days, as I did not make pasta for so long, probably about 2 months. I remember eating out in Olive Garden last month but not after that. So thought of adding some veggies and trying out a new easy method. So, came up with this recipe. Maybe it will sound weird about me adding stuffing mix to it, but believe me it tasted so good. The best part was the Crispy and Crunch of the bread crumbs from that stuffing mix.
Ingredients:
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2 Cups Pasta ( I used Garden Rotini – Tri color Rotini)
5 cups or more to boil pasta
½ cup Capsicum, sliced
½ Zucchini, sliced to strips
1 ½ cup Cherry Tomatoes, halved
1 small onion chopped or sliced
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
Pasta Sauce ( I used Classico – Sweet Basil and Tomato pasta sauce)
salt, pepper and crushed red pepper flakes as per taste
½ Stuffing mix – any flavored of your choice or plain
½ cup Parmesan cheese
¼ cup Olive oil
Method:
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1. In a heavy bottom deep dish pan add water and bring to boil, when it boils, add salt and pasta and give it a stir and let the pasta cook until it’s Al Dente (means "to the tooth").
2. Strain the cooked pasta in a strainer and run it under cold water so that the pasta stops cooking further and keep it aside.
3. In a pan add ½ of the oil oil, add garlic and onions and sauté it until the onions turn transparent.
4. Now add green peppers and Zucchini and sauté it for more 3 mins.
5. Add Salt, pepper powder and crushed pepper powder and stir.
6. Add pasta sauce, probably about 2 or 2 ½ cups and mix well.
7. Add the pasta and mix well.
8. In a bowl add the the stuffing mix, Parmesan cheese and rest of the olive oil, little salt, pepper powder and crushed red pepper flakes and mix well
9. Add pasta in a baking dish and arrange the cherry tomatoes over the pasta and sprinkle the stuffing cheese mix over the tomatoes.
10. Bring the Oven to Broil, and broil the pasta for about 5 mins until the top turns golden brown.
11. Serve this easy and yummy tasting pasta dish when it is hot. It is so easy to make and yet tastes so good.
