Spinach Garlic Pasta

Some days back a close friend was contemplating whether to order food at my house (there was nothing exciting in my fridge) so I told him give me 15 mins and I will cook him a nice pasta. I had never made this pasta recipe but had an intuition that it will be very delicious(now I can say the intuition was correct). My friend was patient enough to let me cook this pasta for him. To his luck I also had a nice bread loaf to make toasted bread. All it took was 15 mins. Not a minute more or a minute less. So this is how I made this.. 


What do you need? (Pasta for 2)

  1. Pasta of your choice
  2. Half bunch of thoroughly washed Spinach
  3. Chopped garlic-6 cloves or 1/2 spoon garlic paste 
  4. Bell pepper -1 or (1/2 of each red /yellow pepper)
  5. Rosemary 
  6. Oil
  7. Salt and pepper
  8. Any processed cheese ( prefer cheddar cheese)
What you need to do?
  1. Boil water, add some salt and oil to the water and cook you pasta al dente( just about cooked as the pasta cooked when you toss it with the sauce) 
  2. While the pasta cooks , in a pan put some olive oil and garlic (chopped or paste) . Toss in your spinach leaves. Cool for 2 mins and add salt and pepper
  3. Remove the spinach in a grinder and add 1/2 cup of  pasta water( in which pasta is cooking) . Grind this into a coarse paste ( very small pieces of spinach leaves should be visible) 
  4. In the same pan fry the slices bell peppers with rosemary 1/2 tbsp and salt and pepper
  5. Add the spinach paste and cook the bells with the sauce for 1 minute 
  6. You would have removed your cooked pasta and strained the water out and ran it through cold water. 
  7. Add this pasta to the pan woh sauce and bells and toss it till all pasta is coated woth the green sauce. 
  8. Grate some cheese on tha pasta and cook for a minute till the cheese melts slightly 

Yummy and restaurant like pasta is readyaaaaa!! 
As we say in Bangalore, Cook and Enjaaaai Maadi 


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