Pasta Biryani. Yes, don’t be surprised. It is an Indian style biryani prepared with Italian pasta. This is one of the popular Indian style pasta recipes at home which received a very good feedback from my husband who normally hates pasta. My in-law normally tastes pasta only whenever its prepared at home. This time, she asked me to serve it in a plate and ate to her content as she liked the taste.
The idea of preparing this pasta biryani was in my mind for a long time but I kept postponing it for many reasons as I was not sure about its outcome. But last week, when I read a similar recipe in Maggi wrapper, I got interested to try it and now It is in front of you.
Basic Information:
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 20-30 minutes
Serves: 4
Ingredients:
Uncooked Pasta – 2 and 1/2 cups, I used Farfalloni Pasta
Oil – 1 tablespoon
Cloves – 4 nos.
Cinnamon stick – 2 inch length piece
Green cardamom – 2 nos.
Fennel seeds – 1/2 teaspoon
Bay leaves – 1 no.
Onion – 1 no., medium size, sliced
Curry leaves – 1 spring
Ginger – inch length piece
Garlic – 4 nos.
Green chillies – 2 nos.,
Mint leaves – 1 handful
Coriander leaves – 1 handful
Tomato – 1 no., large size, cubed
Red chilli powder – 1/2 teaspoon
Coriander powder – 1 teaspoon
Vegetables – 1 and 1/2 cups, I used carrot, capsicum, potato and green peas
Salt – to taste
Turmeric powder – to taste
Method:
1) Wash and cook pasta as per the package instructions.
2) Meanwhile, chop the vegetables to small cubes. I used 2 carrots, 1 green capsicum, 1/2 cup green peas and 1 small potato.
3) Grind ginger, garlic and green chilli to a fine paste without adding water. Set aside.
4) Grind tomato with red chilli powder and coriander powder to a smooth paste without adding water. Set aside.
5) Heat oil in a wide pan. When it is hot, add the spices (Fennel seeds, cardamom, bay leaves, cloves and cinnamon stick). Allow it to splutter.
6) Add onion with curry leaves. Saute till the onion becomes soft and translucent. Add ginger garlic paste and saute for 1/2 minute or till the raw smell of it goes off.
7) Add mint and coriander leaves. Saute till the leaves release nice aroma and mushed well.
8) Add tomato paste and saute again. If required, add 2-3 tablespoons of water to avoid burning while sauteing the tomato paste.
9) Once the raw smell of the masala goes off, add vegetables. Add turmeric powder and salt. Mix well. Keep in mind that we need to add pasta to this and add salt according to that.
10) Add 1/4 cup of water and reduce the flame to medium. Cover and cook till the vegetables are done.
11) Check for the pasta whether it is cooked or not. If it is done, drain the water completely. Do not wash it in cold water.
12) Add this cooked pasta to the prepared vegetable masala. Mix very carefully. Pasta might tend to break, so be extra cautious while doing this.
13) Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.
Notes:
1) Use any of your favourite shape for making this pasta. Small shaped pastas go well for this biryani with vegetables.
2) Add any of your favorite vegetables for this pasta.
Looks and sounds yumm! Bet it tasted unique.
I too love pasta in this way! 😀 yumm!
Looks so delicious Uma
Such a brilliant dish, am sure pasta with Indian spices tastes much more delicious than creamy pasta.
tis s something really italianoo desiii..too good method .. love itn awesome clicks.. first pic s classyyy
wow super dear…love the indian pasta…
Fusion food is the IN thing! Looks good.
I had similarly made Tadka Noodles one day (adding hakka noodles instead of dal to the vegetable and spice mixture that was to be used for a mixed vegetable dal) 😀
wonderfully done..i love these ribbon pastas…and namma style na sollave venda…am sure that will be the best
Ahh, yummy one I am sure.. Biriyani & pasta, an intriguing combo 🙂
Delicious pasta biriyani. love your fusion.
Looks tempting! I make Maggie this way:)
nice click.. and tasty one good alternative
Wow that's a great twist to the pasta…. Great clicks
Innovative recipe, pasta biriyani looks delicious.
Delicious and lipsmacking 🙂
Mmm…briyani using pasta…that's an interesting way to have pasta…looks delicious
recipe sounds delicious and what an interesting twist …
good one !
love this fusion cooking, spicy n flavorful pasta..looks yummm!!!
This looks and sounds amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.
Wow! This is very innovative style of Biryani. I was looking for some fusion dishes with biryani spices and I really liked your idea. I will try out your recipe today.. thanks for sharing 🙂
Wow! New and interesting biriyani! Will surely try this. I have some pasta left over! Thank you so very much!
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good one … my first pasta and it turned very well… thanks for the recipe 🙂