Pasta Sticks

 

Pasta Sticks

This easy pasta sticks recipe is a fun way to eat pasta. It's a versatile enough ingredient that you can also enjoy it as a tasty snack! These quick & easy baked pasta pizza  on a stick are a fun new way to serve pasta as an appetizer or quick snack. In a Skewer some cooked penne pasta, dress it up like a pizza using tomato sauce /pizza sauce and cheese, add your favourite toppings, and bake everything in the oven for an irresistible, sharable, dippable snack! Everyone loves pasta and everyone loves pizza, So Serve them up for dinner, or serve them as an appetizer for a gathering with friends or family. Either way, you'll want to make them over and over again.

INGREDIENTS

Boiled penne pasta - 200 grams/Pasta 30 pieces

Pizza sauce - 50 grams

Mozzarella cheese - 100 grams

Bell pepper chopped- ½ cup

Onions – ¼ cup

Black olives – 8 to 10

Oregano - 1 teaspoon

Chilli flakes - 1 teaspoon

Black pepper- 1 tsp

 

Method:

1.Bring a pot of water to boil. Once your water is hot enough, add pasta into boiled water.

2.When it's cool enough to touch, start stacking the pasta onto your skewers.

3.Line up your pasta sticks on a baking sheet.

4.Add some mozzarella cheese, bell pepper, onions and black olives.

5.Top it with some oregano and chilli flakes and transfer it in a baking tray.

6.Preheat the oven at 180°C.

7.Bake for at least 2-5 minutes or until cheese is melted

8.Remove it from oven.Add the pizza pasta sticks into a serving dish. Serve. Enjoy!

Note:  If you don’t have an oven, you can make it on a gas stove. For that heat a deep pan, place a stand, put tray of pasta sticks on top and cover. Cook on low heat for 5 minutes.

THAVALA VADA

Moreover being a rainy season everybody crave for some hot snack at tea time. So I decided to prepare some hot vadai for snack. Thavala vadai is Prepared from a fusion of many lentils – bengal gram, green gram and toor dal,urdhal  and rice which makes the recipe more interesting. . This protein rich nutritious snack is a unique kind of vadai in Tamilnadu.it’s raining here ,all i want is cup of tea with these delicious vadas .. they looks sooo tempting .

Ingredients:

Thurdhal - 1/2 cup

Urdhal - 1/2 Cup

Channadhal - 1/2 cup

Moong dal- 1 cup

Rice - 3/4 cup

Ginger - 1 piece

Green chillies - 3

 Cocunut Piece- 1 teaspoon

Oil - for Frying vadai

Salt - To taste

For Grinding:

Red chillies - 3

Hing - A pinch

For Seasoning:

Oil - 1tsp

Mustard seeds - 1tsp

Curry leaves - few

Method:

1. Soak toor dhal, channa dhal and rice together in water for two hours. Soak Moong dhal and urad dhal separately in water for the same two hours. Wash all the pulses in water.

2. Grind toor dhal, channa dhal and rice along with red chilles hing and salt coarsely together in a mixer.

3. Grind urad dhal in mixer finally add Moong dhal to the batter and grind for one sec.

4. The dough should not be soft. Finely chop the ginger and green chillies.

5. In the pan, pour the oil and add the mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds begin to sputter and add the chopped ginger and green chillies and curry leaves and fry for a while and add these to the dough along with coconut piece.

6. Heat the oil in the pan and test the oil by adding a pinch of dough and when the dough rises up immediately then the oil is ready.

7. Make small patties of the dough and drop it into the oil and fry Turn it till it becomes golden brown and become crisp..

8. This delicacy is famous vada is crispy and tasty and packed with proteins. Serve it hot with chutney.

 

Having hot vadai/wada with hot tea or cofee in rain is great fun! Enjoy!!