Pasta Salad with Eggs

Here's a healthy dinner Idea. Easy to make and low on carbs. I made this for dinner tonight and loved it.

Ingredients: Serve 1

1 egg ( use golden yolk eggs)

1/4 cup spiral pasta

1 small carrot

5 green beans

1/2 cup cauliflower florets

3 fresh spinach leaves

1 tbsp mayonnaise

salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Peel the carrots and cut in to quarters. Break the edges and de-vein the green beans.

Boil pasta and egg in salted water and put a steamer on top and steam the vegs till bite tender but not mashy. Put the spinach at last for steaming. 

Keep the vegs and spinach aside to cool. Peel the shell off the egg and cut in half.

Make sure the pasta is boiled perfectly and soft. Drain the water and keep aside to cool.

Cut the vegs to desired pieces. Add in the pasta. Season with salt and pepper and add mayonnaise. Refrigerate to cool if desired. Place the halved egg on top and serve.

Sea Food Pasta

Although I'm not a very big fan of pasta, once in awhile I enjoy Italian Food. Got the inspiration for this recipe from Jamie Oliver.

Ingredients: Serve 4-5

Macaroni 400g

300g prawns 

100g cuttle fish

2 Carrots

1 stalk of Celery

5 leaves of Cabbage

1 onion minced

3 cloves garlic minced

4 ripe large tomatoes 

1 red bell pepper

1 Chicken cube dissolved in 1/2 cup water

1/2 tsp fennel seeds

1 tsp oregano

1 tbsp vinegar

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

salt and pepper

Olive oil

dash of corn flour

Method:

First to make the pasta sauce:

Clean the sea food. Remove head of the prawns and de-vein. Remove shell if preferred. Clean, wash and cut the cuttle fish in to small pieces. Season the prawns and cuttle fish with salt and pepper. Add a dash of corn flour to cuttle fish.

Mince carrot, celery and cabbage in a food processor. Mix with Worcestershire sauce, fennel seeds, oregano and vinegar.Cut the red pepper in the strips.

Put the tomatoes in to boiled water for a minute and put a cross at the bottom with a knife and peel away the skins. Liquidize the tomatoes in a food processor and keep aside.

Heat a large pan with 3 tbsp olive oil. Fry the prawns till they turn orange color. Remove and keep aside. 

Then fry the cuttle fish till they curl for 1-2 minutes and keep aside.

Now add the garlic and onions and fry till they turn golden. Add in the minced vegs and fry till almost turning golden. Add in the chicken cube dissolved in hot water, red pepper strips, and liquidized tomatoes. Mix well. Add in the prawns and cuttle fish and cook on low heat. Season the sauce. (If the sauce seems dry add some boiling water from the paste to the sauce.)

Cook pasta according to the packet instructions. Make sure to salt the boiling water. Once cooked drain the pasta and add in to the Sauce and mix well. 

Serve Warm!!!

Cheesy Macaroni with Chicken and Tomato

''Made this dish today for dinner after reading some recipes online and making it my own version with ingredients I found at home :)''

Serves 2

Ingredients:

1 fillet of a chicken breast (skin less) cubed in to1inch pieces 

1 onion sliced thin

1 large tomato cubed

1 cup macaroni

400ml not fat milk

1 tbsp olive oil

Dash of snipped parsley

1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese

For marination of chicken:

1/4tsp ground pepper, salt to taste,1/4 paprika, 1/4 oregano

Method:

1.Marinate the chicken and cook in microwave oven on full power for about 7-8minutes until its done. (if the chicken is dry add little water to the marination stop it from burning)

Keep it aside.

2.Heat olive oil in a pan and when its heated add in the sliced onions and stir fry until its translucent and becoming brown. Add in the cooked chicken and fry for a minute or two. Then add in the juices escaped from chicken when cooked along with the tomatoes and cook for 2 minutes. Keep aside.

3.Add not fat milk in a pan and add the half packet of soup and mix well. Heat the pan in low heat, consistently stirring until it becomes thick. Take off fire. Keep aside.

4.Cook the macaroni as instructed in the packet. ( Boil 1.5 L water in large vessel, add macaroni and about 1tsp salt and 2 tsp butter. Cook until just cooked. Drain water.) Keep aside.

5. Add the chicken and macaroni to the soup mixture. Add in the grated cheese. Mix well. Adjust seasoning for salt and pepper if needed.

6. Put the prepared macaroni mixture in to a lightly greased casserole dish and Bake in a pre heated oven of 250C for 10-15minutes. Bake till top browned and its bubbly.

( But i didn't bake till its browned as my mother doesn't like it browned)

7. Sprinkled with parsley and serve hot.

Noodles in cheese sauce

This preparations taste a lot like Carbonara with a spicy tinge.

Ingredients:

Maggie Noodles (Curry flavour) 1 packet

Fish Steak (Tuna) 2''cube, salt and pepper to taste and lime juice.

Onion1,Some crushed soya chunk, pinch of sugar, Chillie flakes 1/8 tsp,pinch of salt

Cheddar cheese 1cm thick block

skimmed milk 1/2 cup

little oil.

Method:

Deep fry onions and soya chunks till golden brown and mix with sugar, salt and chilie flakes and keep aside. Or can use Maldive fish sambol or vegetarian seeni sambol 1tbsp.

Cut the fish steak in to small cubes and marinate the fish with little salt, pepper and lime juice. stir fry the fish until cooked with little oil.Keep aside.

Heat skimmed milk in non stick pan and add the chedder cheese grated. Stir until cheese dissolves and makes a thick sauce. Keep it aside.

Make the noodles by adding 1cup of hot water in to a pan with the noodles and its flavoring.  When almost all the liquid has absorbed, add in the prepared fish, onion fry or maldive fish sambol and mix well.

Add in the cheese sauce prepared and mix lightly.

Spoon in to the serving dish and serve hot.

Cheese & Veggie Macaroni

Ingredients:

Macaroni 1 cup

1 medium carrot grated

1/4 of cauliflower cut in to small 5cm pieces

1 tomato pureed. (blend in a liquidizer)

1 capsicum de-seeded and sliced

1 onion sliced

1 egg beaten lightly

Cheddar cheese 30g cubed

soya sauce 1tsp

skimmed milk 1/2 cup

salt to taste

black pepper (1/4 tsp)

green leafs like spinach handful

Method:

Boil the macaroni with little salt as instuctions on the packet and drain. Keep aside.

In a pan boil the cauliflower with little salt in little water till almost tender and add carrots for a minute and take off fire. Keep aside.

Heat a non stick pan and add 1tbs oil and fry in the onion and capsicum till onion is translucent. Add the tomato puree. stir fry with little salt and pepper. Add skimmed milk and cook till boiled and add in the vegetables (cauliflower and carrots). Add the egg and stir well till combined with sauce. Add soya sauce. cubed chedder cheese and cook for a minute. Add in the green leafs of you choice.

Add in the macaroni and stir well to coat in the sauce. Take off fire. serve hot.

Quick Mixed Veggie Noodles

'' This noodle version of mine is easy to prepare when you are tired and the great thing is it has no added oil for frying any veggies''

Serve 1

Ingredients:

Maggie Chicken Noodles

1/2 Onion sliced

1 Capsicum slices

Some Mushrooms chopped

1 Carrot grated

Green leafs of your choice (Any kind of veggies you like to use)

minced Soya meat chunks 2 tbsp

Water 1 cup

salt to taste.

Method:

Put all veggies, onion, capsicum and mince soya meat with 1 cup of water on a pan and start cooking.

add in the flavor packet provided with noodles and adjust salt to taste.

When the veggies starts to become tender add in the noodles and cook for 2 minuts. If needed add a little hot water to cook.

Serve warm.

Tip: If you like add a beaten egg at the later stage of cooking and stir well until done.

Noodles with Fish in Tomato Pasta Sauce

'' I made this easy pasta sauce with noodle for dinner today and it was yummy''

Recipe:

Ingredients:

Maggie curry flavor noodle packet 1 with its flavor packet

Onion one chopped

Tomato chopped

Green chille de seeded and chopped

cumin seeds 1/2 tsp

garlic and ginger paste 3/4 tsp

oil 2 tbsp

Fish some small pieces

little pepper

salt

paprika 1/4 tsp

soya sauce 1tsp

tomoto sauce 1tsp

Method:

Wash and cut the fish in to bite size pieces and marinate with little salt and pepper and keep for 10 minuts.

Meanwhile puree the tomato and grind the onions with the green chillie in a food processor and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the fish pieces till cooked and litghty golden brown, drian and keep aside.

In the same pan used, put cumin seeds and let it splutter and add in ginger and garlic paste followed by onion and green chillie paste.  Saute.

Then add in the tomato puree and stir for a minute and add 1/2 of the noodle flavor packet and paprika.

Then add the fried fish pieces, soya sauce and tomato sauce. saute for a minute.

The sauce is done.

Cook the noodles as in the packet instructed with 1cup of hot water and the remain of the flavor packet.

Once cooked add the noodles to the sauce prepared and mix well.

Serve hot.

Macaroni Salad

''Healthy Dinner Idea :D''

Recipe:

Ingredients

Boiled macaroni
Steamed cabbage leaves or fresh lettuce
Boiled and cubed potatoes
Steamed beans
Fresh tomatoes cut in to cubes
Fresh Onions cubed
pinch of salt
black pepper to taste
little white vinegar (1tsp)
and a generous amount of (1-2 tbsps) of Mayonnaise

Method:
Mix all the ingredients together and Serve Chilled.

Tip: can add roasted chicken flakes or boiled and cubed egg or richer taste.