Tuesday, 25 October 2016

Pasta stuffed potato skins


Hello friends,
Yesterday was world pasta day.. As we know pasta has now become a very trending dish amongst youngsters and very familiar by now in our kitchen too.lets do something innovative with this pasta.we already have in our blog few dishes of pasta like white sauce pasta which is also called alfredo pasta and red sauce pasta which is also called arabitta pasta and cruncy pasta which was a very tasty snack.
Let's make a lip smacking appetizer with your guests would love. Impress your family with this easy cheesy pasta dish.
Everyone loves potato as well as pasta so let's combine these two.
Easy and cheesy yet unique potato skins stuffed with creamy white sauce pasta.
Potato skins simply means potatoes served with their skins without peeling them stuffed with some filling and served as an appetizer.
They are also known as jacket potatoes.
So try this for sure
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Ingredients:
Boiled potatoes 3 : cut in half and scooped as shown in the pic
Boiled pasta: 1 cup
Tomatoes: chopped 1/2 cup
Capsicum: chopped 1/2 cup
Corn: boiled 1/2 cup
Milk: 1 cup ( full fat milk)
Cheese cubes: 2
Cheese slice : 1
Tomato sauce: 3 tbsp
Garlic: 4-5 Cloves
Maida(all purpose flour): 1 tbsp
Butter
Oregano
chilly flakes
Salt
Pepper

Process:
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Step 1:
Boil water in a pan, add 1 tsp oil and salt in it
As the water comes to boil, add pasta to it
Strain the boiled pasta and keep aside

Now, In a pan add 2 tbsp butter and add maida to it
Cook the maida and now add milk to it and stirr continuously.
Now add corn, half portion of capsicum and pasta to it.
I am using penne pasta, you can use any variety of pasta preferably macroni I.e elbow shaped pasta
Add oregano, chilly flakes, salt, pepper, and cheese slice

And white sauce pasta is ready


Step 2:
In a pan add some oil,
Now add chopped garlic, tomatoes and capsicum to it
Add 2 spoons of chilly flakes
We have to make this sauce a little spicy but if you don't prefer spicy food then you can keep it less spicy
Add oregano, pepper powder and salt as per taste
Let the sauce cook till tomatoes are completely mashed.

Spicy red sauce is also ready

Step 3:
Take boiled potato and cut them in 2 pieces
Scoop the potatoes so that we can make places for stuffing
As you see in the pic the potatoes should be properly scooped
Make sure the potatoes are not over cooked
Now in a pan add butter and put this potatoes and stir fry them for 1minute
Add salt and pepper and potatoes are ready

Step 4:
This is the final assembling part

Take potatoes in a plate
Fill them with white sauce pasta
Now Put red sauce over it
And finally grade some cheese over it

Microwave it for 2 minutes until the cheese melts.


Your pasta stuffed potato skins are ready to serve

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