Cheesy pasta
Cheesy desi style pasta recipe

- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 25 min
- Yield
- 1 serving
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
- 1 cup penne pasta
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp finely chopped garlic
- 4 tbsp chopped capsicum
- 1/2 tsp red chili powder
- 1/4 cup grated cheese
- 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Salt as needed
- 2 tbsp fresh cream (optional)
- 3 small tomatoes
- 3 clove garlic
Instructions
- 1
Boil enough water and add the pasta to this.
- 2
Add salt and few drops of oil.
- 3
Let the pasta cook till aldente.
- 4
Keep ¼ cup of the pasta drained starch water.
- 5
Grind the tomato and garlic and keep this aside.
- 6
In a pan add 1 tbsp oil and add the finely chopped garlic.
- 7
When it turns light golden brown, add the chopped capsicum.
- 8
Cook for a minute, let this be crunchy.
- 9
Add the tomato garlic puree to this.
- 10
Now add in the red chili powder, garam masala and salt.
- 11
I added 1 tsp of red chili powder and it turned out bit spicy.
- 12
So, reduce it to ½ tsp.
- 13
Add in the grated cheese, if you don’t have grated cheese, add 1-2 cheese slices.
- 14
Let this cook for 2-3 minutes.
- 15
Cook in a medium flame.
- 16
Add in the fresh cream, if adding. You can add full cream milk too.
- 17
Now add the pasta reserved starch water.
- 18
Mix well and add the cooked pasta.
- 19
Cook for a minute and switch off the stove.
- 20
Cheesy masala pasta is ready.
- 21
Serve this hot.