Ingredients:
1.)Paste (penne)-1 cup
2.)pasta sauce - 1 and 1/2 cup
3.)peas and carrot - 1/2 cup
4.)salt - to taste
5.)cheese - 1/4 cup(could vary the variety and quantity of cheese according to ur taste)
6.)water - 4 cups
17.)sugar - pinch
Pasta Sauce:
1.)Tomatoes - 2-3 (large)(could use tomato paste instead, about 3/4 cup)
2.)salt-to taste
3.)pepper - 1/2 tsp
4.)garlic - 1-2 tbsp(finely chopped) (could use a little less too, but I like the garlic flavor)
5.)oil - 1 tbsp
6.)italian seasoning - 1 -2tsp(u get this in the super markets. If not this u could use some of the italian spices like basil, oregano etc).
7.)Rose mary- 1/2 tsp
Procedure:
To prepare the sauce, blanch the tomatoes and let them cool(for blanching tomatoes, take boiling hot water and add the tomatoes to it.Let them stay in the water for a minute or so. Immediately get the tomatoes out of the hot water and run them through cold water. Now you will see that the tomatoes skin come off pretty easily.)Remove the skin of the tomatoes. Having remove the skin of the tomatoes , crush the tomato pulp with hand or use a blender to get a paste.do not add water, try to get athick sauce.
Instead of going through the whole procedure you could use the tomato paste instead, whoch generally use. In a pan take oil, when it is hot add onions, garlic and saute well. When the onions get transparent add peas and carrots and saute well. Add salt ans pepper and mix well. To this add tomato paste and mix well. Let it cook till the raw flavor of the tomatoes is gone.Then add the italian seasoning,rosemary and a pinch of sugar and mix well.
If the mixture is too thick and stick to the bottom of the pan, add a little water.
While this is going on, in another pan boil 4 cups of water with a pinch of salt. Once the water starts boiling, add pasta and let it cook.Once the paste is cooked, fish it out from the water and add to the tomato sauce in the other pan and mix well. Let it stay in the pan for about 5 mins. Finally top the pasta with cheese and serve hot.
Note:-Rosemary gives a very nice flavor to the pasta. I generally add a little rosemary in addition ot the italian seasoning. It is optional.
