Saturday 15 August 2015

sail in pasta

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Ingredients
pasta                    2 cups
Coconut milk      3 cups
lemon grass       2 sticks chopped
Galangal             1 thumb size
Salt                      2 tbls +as required
Chicken               100 gram bite size pieces
Fish sauce           1 tbls
Thai red chilli       2-3
Lemon juice            2 tbls
Dry red chillies       3-4 soaked in warm water
Garlic cloves           3-4
Pepper corns          1/2tsp
zeera                         1tsp
Corriender seeds     1 tsp
onion                          1 chopped
Olive oil                      4 tbls
basil leaves              8-10
Lemon zest              1 tbls
Lemon leaves          4-5
chilli powder            1 tsp
Red.yelliw.green bell pepper     2-2tbls each .cut into triangular pieces
Baby corn              2 cut diagnaly
Broccoli                3-4 florets cut lengthwise
To garnish
Potato oval shaped      1 big
Tomato slice                  1
Tooth pick                       1
Method
Boil enough water in a big pan add 2 tbls salt when it starts boiling add 2 cups of pasta stir in between boil for 7-8 minutes check if done drain the water it should be slightly under cooked keep aside.
Heat a wok add 2 cups of coconut milk half of galangal and half of lemon grass cook for 2-3 minutes add chicken pieces cook till done add half of boiled pasta stir well add thai  red chilli .fish sauce 1 tbls lemon juice and lemon leaves cook a while and keep aside
Make paste of soaked red chillies.garlic zeera. Corriender. Galangal.lemon grass.little salt and little water and make smooth paste.
Heat oil add the paste sauté for 2-3 minutes add all the vegetables add some pasta water add 1 tsp red chilli powder and left over boiled pasta mix well add 1 cup coconut milk lemon zest and lemon juice and basil leaves mix well.
Boil the potato .peel it .cut into 2 halves length wise .scoop out and make space in between and fry it till golden.fix tomato slice with the help of tooth pick and fill it with pasta
For plating fill white pasta in a bowl and keep it up side down in the centre of the plate then keep red pasta around it .remove the bowl and keep the potato boat on the white pasta.and Sail in the pasta