Pasta ... Ashley Style

Disclaimer: This dish is strictly for single people like me who don't have access all the resources like people staying at home and want to have good food on Saturday evening. Other people, I think you can definitely make better preparations so don't blame me if you don't like it :-D.

This is something I tried this weekend. We had nice kheechadi (ingredients and recipes from different continent) dinner with soup and bread sticks, bread roll, pasta and mango milkshake for dessert. It was yummy dinner I must say.

Here is how I made the pasta.

Ingredients: Pasta (any type), a bottle of salsa sauce, oregano dressing packets of pizza hut, packet of frozen green peas(optional), salt to taste, little bit of oil.

Recipe: Put water to boil in a pan (proportion should be 3 cups for 1 cup of pasta). Add pasta to it and let the pasta cook for about 10 mins. Add 2 teaspoons of oil and one teaspoon of salt to avoid sticking of pasta. Once the pasta is cooked, drain the water and keep the pasta aside.
In a pan, take 2-3 tablespoons of oil and heat it. Empty the jar of salsa sauce in it and let it simmer. If you like watery pasta sauce (like I do), add a glass of water to this. Empty the packet of frozen peas in a vessel and wash them properly. Add them to the pasta sauce. The sauce can be little sour for some people, so you can add salt, chilly powder to adjust the taste as you like it. I think adding some boiled veggies like baby corn, carrots, beans should also taste nice. Sprinkle the oregano seasoning. It brings nice taste to this whole mixture. Once this whole mess gets to boil add the cooked pasta to it, mix properly and la hol .... yummy pasta is ready !!!

When I made this dish, it was all trial and error basis but it turned out very very nice. The reason I opted for salsa sauce was I like the taste (I know it is to be eaten with tortilla chips and not used for cooking but so what!) and it was much cheaper then the pasta sauces kept on display :-D.