Spaghetti

      Spaghetti is one of the wholesome meal that we can depend on when we are bored of the same rice and roti dishes.. Its quick to make and is stomach filling..

    We can add wide varieties of veggies to it and make it more relishing and healthy.. I have made here a simple and quick version of spaghetti without many vegetables. This can be customised according to your taste..

Ingredients:

Spaghetti pasta (cooked) - 2 bowls

Onion - 2 medium size

Tomato - 2 medium size

Garlic - 5 to 6 cloves

Olive oil - 2 tbsp

Italian mixed herbs - 1 tsp

Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp

Chilli powder - 1 tsp

Tomato sauce - 2 tbsp

Sugar - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Method:

To measure the required quantity of spaghetti for a single person meal, just pass the spaghetti though the hole in the pasta ladle. The hole is actually a measurement of spaghetti required for one person. If you don't have the ladle just take the enough quantity of pasta that u can pass through when u make a hole between your thumb a fore finger ( simpler one isn't it :) )

Heat water in a pan. Add one tsp of oil and little salt to it. Once it start to boil, add the spaghetti and cook for around 10 - 12 mins or till it's just cooked enough and breaks when you pinch it.

Once cooked, drain the water and soak the spaghetti in cold water. 

Now heat a pan and add the rest of the oil to it. You can either chop the veggies or just grind them together. I grind them so that they take less time to cook. 

Once the oil is hot add the ground tomato, onion and garlic paste to it. Shallow fry till the paste becomes more red.. now add chilli powder, pepper powder and mixed herbs to it.

Mix well. If you wish to add more vegetables, you can add them and fry for a while before adding ground paste. 

Add sugar and required salt to it. Now add the cooked spaghetti and mix well. Add tomato sauce to it and mix.  Cook for another two minutes on low flame till all the flavours come together..

Serve hot. You can also garnish it with little parmesan cheese if you would like to.

Enjoy cooking !!