Dish #427 - Chilli Prawn Spaghetti

Chilli Prawn Spaghetti... a beautiful dish that not only looks good but also tastes awesome....

Ingredients:

Fresh or Dried spaghetti - 250 gms
Olive oil - 4 tbsp
Garlic cloves - 2 - peeled and crushed
Chilli flakes - Dried - ½ tsp 

Prawns - 200 gms - shells removed and de-veined
Cherry Tomatoes - full or halved - 100 gms
Tomato paste - 2 tbsp
Basil - fresh - 1 handful or dried - 1 tsp

Thyme - fresh - 1 handful or fried - 1 tsp
Lemon -1/2 - juice only

Method:
Cook the spaghetti in boiling salted water for about 3-4 minutes or according to packet instructions, until al dente, then drain.
Gently heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Add the garlic and chilli flakes and leave to infuse with the oil for a few minutes over a low heat. Turn up the heat and add the prawns and the tomato paste. Cook for 2-3 minutes until they turn pink and are cooked through. Remove from the heat.
Add the cherry tomatoes, pasta, basil and lemon juice. Toss together, spoon onto 2-3 plates and serve immediately.

My dish No. 402 - "Kulith kele Koddel" or Horse gram raw & raw banana in garlic seasoned coconut gravy - A Konkani curry

Here's yet another konkani delicacy that I make quite often, but somehow not had the time to blog it...
A very simple curry but very aromatic and delicious...perfectly goes with steaming white rice...

Roasted Garlic Chutney Dry

Garlic is known best for keeping cold at bay. Eating a clove of garlic when you feel like you may have an onset of cold, improves your immune system and strengthens up the natural defense system of the body.
Garlic has compounds that help prevent any kind of heart disease. It helps in lowering the cholesterol level in blood.Garlic also helps in the control of blood pressure or hypertension. Garlic is effective against fighting off a host of infections.

Here is a Garlic Chutney, that that be used with pancakes as well as in sandwiches. 

A favorite with all of us at home. 

I have also carried this on my trips abroad, and all my friends who have tasted this have loved it.

• A dry chutney that can be stored for up to 6 months in the refrigerator and can be stored outside for atleast a month.
• It can even be mixed with equal quantities of butter to make a sandwich spread.
• It can be used as a side dish with rice and dal.
• and also as an accompaniment for dosas/pancakes.

Very easy to make, needs very few ingredients and yet to versatile.