Home made pasta and sauce.

Home made pasta and sauce.

for pasta:

1. cup whole wheat flower or suji
2. 1. egg
3. ¼ t-spoon salt
4. 2-3 t-spoon of water or as needed.

To boil pasta:

large pot of water and 4 t-spoon of salt

Beat egg with salt and 1 t-spoon of water, add flower or suji and kneed into medium soft dough (use more water if needed). Cover and keep a side for 20 minutes.. Uncover and kneed again and make 3 to 4 equal size ball. Now with help of dry flower roll out each dough ball into thin and flat sheet (like roti). Sprinkle some flower on rolled dough and from one edge start to roll it till you get to the other edge, so you can make it into a cigar shape. Make all ball into cigar and keep a side. Cut the cigar shaped rolled dough into very thin strips or to desire thickness. To unroll the dough strips just insert a thin wooden spatula handle or a dull knife in the tube after you are done cutting the dough and simply lift the dough, this method will give you a thin strips of pasta. Sprinkle some dry flower onto cut strips so it does not stick together, and keep them on the side. Meanwhile in a large pot take lots of water and 4 t-spoon of salt; bring it to a rolling boil ( never add oil to water). When all pasta is cut, shake off dry flower from pasta and put them into boiling pot of water. Stir with a ladle otherwise they will stick together and not cook properly. Let it boil again. When pasta floats on water surface then you can remove them from water and add into sauce.

Easy method: buy any shaped ready made pasta and cook according to direction on the pack.

For sauce:

1. 4-5 medium size tomato, cubed, or 1 cup of any store brought pasta sauce.
2. ¼ medium onion, finally chopped
3. ½ medium stalk celery, finally chopped
4. 2 cloves garlic, crushed
5. ½ cup chicken cubed, Boneless and skinless.
6. ½ medium zucchini, small cubed
7. 5 mushroom, cubed,
8. 1/5 cup cubed bell pepper (any color) optional
9. salt ½ t-spoon
10. sugar 1 t spoon or according to taste, only if using fresh tomato (do not use for store bought pasta sauce).
11. black pepper according to taste.
12. 2 table spoon Olive or canola oil.
13. Crushed chili pepper flakes (optional).
14. 1/2 cup water.
15. Cheese according to taste (optional).

Method:

Heat the oil in a pan, add onion, celery and garlic, add salt, black pepper and chili pepper flakes. Cook on medium heat for 2-3 minutes till little tender, then add chicken and other vegetables except tomato, cook for 3-4 minutes then add tomato and sugar (or add store bought pasta sauce). Add ½ cup of water and mix. Cover and cook on very medium to low heat for 15 more minutes. Now sauce is ready.

Add cooked pasta to the sauce and mix well over medium heat.

For kids who do not like vegetables grind all the vegetables and then just cook little longer with oil, salt, chicken and sugar. Toss the pasta with this sauce and sprinkle some cheese on top. They will not notice vegetables in the sauce. Enjoy.