Pasta Badam Kheer | Pasta Payasam | Easy Indian Dessert with Pasta

Pasta Badam Kheer | Pasta Payasam is an easy Indian dessert using Pasta. I’m sure everyone will love this sweetened version of pasta especially, the kids. I’ve used badam mix to flavour the kheer and quicken the process. This kheer is frequenting my kitchen quite often pasta as it needs only 10-15  minutes to prepare. We love to have this kheer chilled and undoubtedly, a heavenly treat to enjoy anytime of the day.

Recipe for Pasta Badam Kheer | Pasta Payasam | Easy Indian Dessert with Pasta:

Cuisine : Indian

Category: Dessert

Cooking time : 20 Minutes

Serves – 5

Ingredients:

• Pasta – ½ cup
• Milk – 3 cups
• Sugar – ¾ cup
• Badam  mix – 3 tbsp
• Saffron|kesar – few strands
• Cardamom | Elaichi powder –  1 tsp

Method:

1. Boil a  cup of water with little oil. To this add pasta and cook for 10 minutes or until the pasta is cooked until soft. Keep aside.
2. Boil milk in a heavy bottomed sauce pan until it gets reduced to ¾ th of the quantity.
3. In the mean time, soak saffron strands in warm milk & keep aside.
4. When the milk is reduced, add the cooked pasta & sugar and mix everything well.
5. Allow to cook pasta in milk for about 5 minutes.
6. To this add badam mix and stir well.
7. Finally, add the saffron milk & cardamom powder.
8. Mix everything well and switch off.
9. Cool it completely & refrigerate for ½ an hour.

Creamy, delicious Pasta Badam Kheer is ready! This can be had for breakfast instead of smoothies. You can serve it as a dessert after meal, Prasad for poojas...

Note:

• You can add any nuts of your choice.
• You can also use freshly ground almond paste. In that case, soak almonds in hot water for ½ an hour. Peel the skin and grind to a smooth paste by adding little milk

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Indian Style Pasta | Quick Pasta | Easy Masala Pasta

Indian Style Pasta | Quick Pasta | Easy Masala Pasta is a simple pasta recipe and it is really a blend of many tastes. This is ideal for any meal with some salads or can be served as it is for light meal. I love pasta for its beautiful shapes and its versatility to adapt to any kind of flavours & tastes. Of all I like the bow-tie shaped called Farfalle, but I couldn’t find any in nearby stores which I frequently. At last I got this Elbow shaped (Chifferi Rigati).

Coming to my pasta recipe, I tried this pasta on last Sunday for breakfast. Normally I prefer Sunday breakfasts to be simple to make them ready in a few minutes. Most of the times, it would be some toast, sandwich, upma, porridge etc. Because, only during Sundays, my son & hub will have the privilege of waking up at their own time. I too have my own time, only on Sundays, enjoying every sip of my hot tea while reading the newspaper without any disturbance since I keep following my regular wake up time even on Sundays.. J So as per Sunday breakfast standards, I thought of making this pasta quite simple with minimal ingredients. I boiled the pasta and kept it ready. When everyone was ready for their breakfast, I started preparing the dish & got it finished in 10 minutes. My son & hub enjoyed it hot but I had to take it cold due to photo session. Anyways, I liked it cold. I’m sure this mild sweet, spicy version of pasta will frequent my Sunday breakfast menu. What about you?

Ingredients:

To boil pasta:

• Pasta  – 1 cup
• Water – 3 cups
• Oil – 1 tsp
• Salt – 1 tsp

To prepare simple pasta:

• Oil – 1 tbsp
• Garlic (crushed) – 1 tbsp
• Green chilli (finely chopped) – 1 No.
• Onion (finely chopped)  – 1 No.
• Tomato (finely chopped) – 1 No.
• Carrot (chopped) – 1 No.
• Red chilli paste – ½ tsp
• Sweet & sour sauce – 1 tsp
• Spring onion – 3 stalks
• Pasta mix – 1 tbsp
• Salt –to taste

Method:

1. Boil 3 cups of water, bring it to boil.  Add  a pinch of salt, oil & pasta and cook until soft. Drain in a colander,  run through cold water and keep aside. You can keep ¼ cup of pasta boiled water for future use.
2. Keep the veggies ready. Chop the white part of spring onion finely & keep aside.  Roughly chop the green part for garnishing.
3. In a non stick pan, heat oil and add crushed garlic. Sauté till the garlic becomes golden brown in colour.
4. Add the finely chopped onion & sauté till it becomes translucent.  Add the white part of the spring onion and sauté for a while.
5. Add tomato and sauté until it becomes mushy & creamy.
6. Add carrots, salt  and sauté in high flame for 2 minutes.
7. Add the red chilli paste & sauce and sauté for a while.
8. Add ¼ cup of  plain water or reserved pasta boiled water and stir well.
9. When everything comes together, add the pasta and toss everything well.
10. Finally add pasta mix and garnish with spring onion green stalks.

Hot, spicy pasta is ready to eat with sweet & sour taste…

Note:

• If you don’t have pasta mix, add some oregano and pepper powder. If you don’t have both, don’t worry, add some chopped cilantro & pepper powder.
• If you like this to be sweeter, add some honey/ sugar while adding sauce.
• You can add any veggies of your choice.

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