My "Everything But The Kitchen Sink" Pasta Mix!

Sorry about the lack of posts over the last few weeks, I was doing my mocks! :O I thought that I'd put up a recipe that was totally different from the last one, so here it is, a delicious pasta mix! Its simple I know but you can pretty much throw in whatever you can find in your kitchen and it will still taste brilliant! I ALWAYS make too much of this mix, so there's plenty left for a great lunch the following day. This is a really sweet mix so if you don't fancy that much then leave out the brown sugar. If your feeling braver, add a teaspoon or two of hot chilli powder! You can manipulate the recipe to taste whatever way you want it to. So try it out and mess around!  :)




Pasta Mix!

Ingredients:

• 1 Carrot
• 1 Onion
• Half Yellow Pepper
• Half Red Pepper
• 5 Mushrooms
• 2 sections Garlic
• 2 Handfulls Cahews
• Juice of 1 Lemon

• 3 Breasts Chicken
• 2tbsp Soy Sauce
• 2tbsp Honey
• 1tbsp Sweet Chilli sauce
• Penne for 4 people
• Chicken stock cube
• 50g soft (dark) brown sugar
• 1tsp Cumin
• 5tbsp tomato Purée

Method:


First, chop up all of the Vegetables. Cut the Carrots and Peppers into strips and dice the Onions and Mushrooms. Put everything into a bowl with the crushed garlic and Cashew nuts and pour over the lemon juice (with bits!) Mix this around lik a salad and cover over the bowl with a plate or something. Leave this to one side for now.


Fry the Chicken in the biggest pan you have with a drop of oil, the 2 tablespoons of Soy sauce, the 2 tablespoons of honey and the Sweet Chilli sauce. Once the outside of the chicken has turned white, cut it up into tiny pieces and put on the kettle for the Penne. Make sure all of the chicken gets coated in the mix of sauces. Now put the Pasta into a pot with a bit of salt and pour in the boiled water until the pasta is submerged. Bring this to the boil and let the pasta cook. Don't forget to stir it around every few minutes so that the pasta doesn't stick to the pot!


When the chicken is almost fully cooked, prepare the stock cube in half a cup of hot water and add it to the pan. Lower the heat and let the mix simmer. Stir the Dark Brown Sugar and cumin into the mix. At this point, you could produce a delicious curry if you made rice instead of pasta and also added a handfull of sultanas, a chopped up apple or two and an extra teaspoon of Cumin! 


Next, Mix in the Tomato Purée and let the mix simmer on a low heat. Now drain off the Pasta and rinse off the salt with hot water. Add the Vegetables to the mix in the pan and then stir in the pasta. Make sure everything gets covered in the sauce. Serve it up and enjoy!

Soundtrack to this recipe:
Nas- Hero Ft. Keri Hilson
Rihanna- You Da One