Saturday, May 3, 2008

Chicken Curry Pasta


(3-4 Servings)


Ingredients.


250 gms of Penne Rigatti Pasta
250 gms. of chicken breast, deboned and chopped into thin strips.
150 gms. of baby potatoes chopped into eight per piece.
150 gms. of frozen carrot cubes and corn.
4-5 pieces of chicken liver sliced into cubes.
1 can of tall evap milk
Fresh Basil
1 onion sliced into rings
5 cloves of garlic
8-10 tbsp of chicken curry
1 KNORR cubes chicken
canola or olive oil
3 tbsp. soy sauce
sugar
salt and pepper



Procedure.


1. Cook pasta with 1L water, salt and oil.

2. In a small sauce pan, boil 1/4 cup of water, with soysauce, 1 tsp of salt, 2 tbsp of sugar, 2 tbsp of curry powder and 1 tbsp of canola or olive oil.

3. once brought to boil, add in chicken strips, setting it aside until all liquid evaporates and chicken fries a bit. Then remove from heat and floss the chicken using two forks. This is called the process of flossing.
4. in another saucepan, saute garlic and onion with small amount of oil.
5. saute in potatoes and add salt pepper and about 1 tbsp curry powder, stir and cook until semi burned or grilled looking (check picture below)
6. set the potatoes aside (like in the pic) then place the chicken liver in the center and have it cooked for 5-10 minutes, mash it a bit, add in salt and pepper on the liver mixture with sprinkle of oil.
7. add in basil to the liver mixture.

(this process allows cooking of two dry ingredients in one pan, in this case the liver and the potato)

8. mix mashed liver and potato, then add carrot and corn.
9. add in 1 tbsp of curry powder.
10. pour in milk, have it boil then add all remaining curry powder.
11. Knorr cubes. sugar salt and pepper

12. drain pasta and add in to the sauce. making sure pasta is coated with sauce
13. taste. add sugar salt and pepper as necessary.

14. top with the chicken floss as garnish.


Simple Italian Pasta



(3 - 4 Servings)


Ingredients


250 gms of Penne Regatti Pasta
1 small pack of DEL MONTE Tomato Paste
1 can of Mushroom Sliced
100 gms of cooked ham, sliced into 1cm squares
*Optional 1 tsp hot sauce
1 onion sliced into rings
3 cloves of garlic
1 KNORR cubes chicken flavor
olive oil
Fresh Basil
sugar
salt and pepper


Procedure.


1. Boil 1L of water in a big saucepan, with oil, one palm of salt.
2. Once on boil add in 250 grams of pasta til cooked for 7-10 minutes.

3. Saute garlic and onion over minimal oil in a separate hot saucepan.
4. throw in mushroom, sauteing for 3minutes, the add in cooked ham.

5. Meanwhile continually stirring the pasta on the other bowl.

6. Add in chopped basil on the meat and mushroom mixture.
7. Add the tomato paste but do not stir yet.

8. Drain Pasta and add in to the meat mushroom mixture
9. Stir until the pasta is coated with tomatoe paste.
10. Add in knorr cubes.
11. sugar. salt and pepper.
12. you may add water about 50 ml to loosen the thickness of tomato paste as desired.


*best served with toasted whole wheat bread brushed with minimal olive oil.
*Bon'a Petito!!!