Feels great to get back to cooking - I really missed it all this while! The husband has one more quarter of studies, and I need to make it up to him, so what better than cooking special lunch every Saturday for 9 more Saturdays! I wanted to start with something simple but special, and Macroni tops the list in simple-quick dishes.
Ingredients for Macaroni:
2 Cups of Macaroni
1/2 cup fine shredded cabbage
1 onion finely chopped
1 capsicum finely chopped
3 large tomatoes chopped (deseed the tomatoes)
1/2 tsp parsley
1/2 tsp thyme
7-8 fresh basil leaves
4 garlic cloves
1 tbsp honey
Olive oil for cooking
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
Cook macaroni in salted boiling water with a few drops of olive oil.
Ensure that you dont over cook macaroni - 10 mins of cooking in boiling water is sufficient.
Saute all the vegetables - you can add mushrooms, grated carrot - basically any vegetable combo works well with macroni
Add a pinch of oregano to the sauted vegetables, set aside
In a separate pan, heat 2 tbsps of olive oil.
Add the crushed garlic and cook for a minute
Add the coarsely chopped tomatoes, thyme and parsley
Cook till the tomatoes look juicy, add a pinch of salt and honey
Grind the tomatoes mix, once it cools down.
Mix the sauted vegetables in the tomato-parsley sauce, add 1/4th of the cheddar cheese to the vegetables, mix well
Add the cooked macaroni to the vegetable mix, add half cup of water, if the mix is dry. Cook for a minute.
Coat the microwave-able container with olive oil, put alternate layers of macaroni and cheese, drizzle a bit of olive oil and cook in microwave for 8-10 mins. And it is good to go :)
Ingredients for garlic bread topping:
1 tsp butter
2 garlic cloves - finely chopped
1 tsp roasted sesame seeds
2-3 fresh basil leaves
1/2 tsp parsley
5 tsps olive oil
Melt the butter, mix all the ingredientsSpread the mix on the bread slices
Drizzle olive oil
Grill in oven for 7-8 mins till the bread turns brown
And the final result
1 comments:
Absolutely mouthwatering :)
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