Pasta - desi style

After I made Chilli Paneer, we had some pasta and pasta sauce at home, so I gave it a try at making desi (Indian) style pasta with same kind of recipe I made for Chilli Paneer.  What this means is that I used the same recipe of Chilli Paneer with few variations and additions.  First thing first, look how delicious the pasta turned out to be :D.

Pasta - Indian style

Ingredients:
Vegetables:
1 Green/Red/Yellow bell peppers (these are to add color to your dish, you don't need all 3 of them, I just used green and yellow in my dish), Onions (2-3 medium or 1 to 1.5 big), Green onions (2-3 pieces), Cilantro, Green chillies (1 big one or 2 small)

Spices:
Red chilli powder, Coriander powder, Chilli sauce (Yeo's, but you can get any chilli sauce), Soy sauce (Kikoman, again, you can get any soy sauce), Pasta sauce (any pasta sauce would do, but I got the sauce with roasted garlic and herb flavor), Ginger garlic paste (in my case, garlic paste), Cumin seeds

Other:
Oil, Water, Paneer (250 grams), Pasta (Penne Regate Macroni)

Preparation:
- Cut paneer into cubes
- Cut green/red/yellow bell peppers into cubes
- Cut 1 medium sized onion into cubes
- Finely chop onion (1/2 to 1 medium)
- Chop green chillies (1 big one)
- Finely chop cilantro
- Finely chop green onions

Process:
Pasta:
- In a separate utensil, boil water
- Once the water is boiled, add pasta
- Once the pasta is cooked, remove the water from it and keep the pasta aside

Paneer:
- In a nonstick pan, heat oil
- Fry/cook paneer on medium heat until they turn light brown
- Keep cooked paneer on side

Main gravy:
- In a nonstick pan, add 3-4 spoons of oil
- Add cumin seeds and let it warm up
- Add chopped garlic & finely chopped onions and saute them
- Add 1 spoon of garlic paste and mix it well
- Cook everything until the raw flavor of garlic paste is gone
- Add green chillies, coriander powder (1spoon), and red chilli powder (1 spoon) and mix everything well
- Let the mixture cook for a minute or so.
- Add 3 spoons of chilli sauce and 3 spoons of soy sauce and mix everything well
- Once the oil starts to separate and the gravy is bit thick, add about 1/2 glass water (you can add more water if you want Chilli Paneer to have little bit of gravy, but add little at a time instead of pouring it all in at once)
- Add pasta sauce to this.  Now, I added about half a bottle of pasta sauce since I was going to add pasta in this at the end so needed a lot of gray for it.
- Once the gravy is cooked properly, add cube onions, green/red/yellow bell peppers, and mix everything with the gravy
- Add salt (to taste) to the gravy
- After letting the onions, and bell peppers cook for about 5-7 minutes, add cooked paneer to this
- Taste the gravy and add anything that feels like missing
- Add your cooked pasta in this mixture and mix it well with everything and let it cook for about 4-5 minutes
- Finally add chopped green onions, and cilantro and turn off the heat and let it sit on stove for few minutes
- And it's  ready to serve!!!!!

Since I made the chilli paneer 2 days ago, I knew exactly what was needed to make the gravy and I made this pasta so quickly that it took me just half an hour to make it instead of 1 hour.  The pasta was spicy but also super delicious that we all over ate it I think :P...haha.  Give it a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

Until then, take care!!