Pasta is a hit with most kids, almost all of them love to eat it, because of its interesting shape and the cheese that goes into it!
Mothers, however are not too convinced about its nutritional value and often don’t count it amongst healthy food. Here is a tip to make your pasta nutritive for kids.
Ingredients:
200 gm any pasta. Choose a Pasta, penne, fusilli, spaghetti or any other
3 medium sized tomatoes roughly chopped
1 medium sized onion roughly chopped
150 gms of chopped green vegetables like. You can use all the vegetables that your kids don’ eat otherwise!
Broccoli
Capsicum
Carrots
Spinach
Beans
2 1/2 tbsp Olive oil or any vegetable oil
2 tsp Fresh or dried herbs like oregano or rosemary or mixed herbs
2 cloves of crushed garlic
Grated cheese
Salt to taste
2 – 3 tbsp of any commercially available pasta sauce or tomato ketchup (optional)
Recipe:
Boil the pasta. Add 1 tsp of oil to the pasta while boiling it. Save some water while straining the pasta for the sauce, keep it aside.
Heat 1 tbsp oil
Add the tomatoes, onions and chopped greens to the pan. Add some salt. Sauté till the vegetables are cooked well
Puree the cooked vegetables in a blender. We will use this puree as the base for our pasta sauce
Heat the pan again with 1tbsp of oil
Add the 2 cloves of crushed garlic
Add the vegetable puree
Add grated cheese or pop in a few cheese slices if that is what you have at home
You can add 2 – 3 tbsp of any pasta sauce available commercially or ketchup at this stage. Else, just add some fresh or dried herbs like, oregano, rosemary or any other herb of your choice.
Add the water which we had saved while straining the pasta to loosen the sauce
Add the boiled pasta
Garnish with some cheese
Here is your healthy pasta with the goodness of vegetables!
WHAT DO YOU THINK?