Shell macaroni with sprouts & cheese

Cuisine Style: Indo-Italian | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 3 | Type: Breakfast or Dinner

Ingredients

• Shell macaroni or shell pasta – 1 ½ cup
• Green peas and chickpeas sprouts – ½ cup
  
• Tomato – 1 [finely chopped]
• Tomato sauce – 4 tbsp
• Onion – ½ [sliced]
• Garlic – 3 cloves [chopped & mashed]
• Green chilli – ½ [slit]
• Freshly ground pepper powder or crushed peppercorns – 1 tbsp
• Dried Basil leaves – 2 tbsp
• Coriander leaves [chopped] - 4 tbsp
• Lemon juice- 1 tbsp
• Cheese – 1 ½ to 2 tbsp [grated]
• Sugar a pinch
• Salt to taste
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Water as needed

Preparation

• Steam sprouts in an idli cooker till soft.
• Heat pan add water and salt & let it boil then add shell macaroni till soft. Then drain water & keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a pan then add onion sauté till soft. Then add garlic and green chilli sauté gently. Then add tomato and dried basils mix well.
• Add steamed chickpeas and green pea’s sprouts sauté gently. Then add boiled macaroni mix well.
• Add tomato sauce, sugar, & pepper powder mix well & leave it for a min.
• Add lemon juice mix well then cut off heat
• Sprinkle cheese, coriander leaves & pepper powder then serve hot.

Shell macaroni pasta with sprouts