Red Sauce Penne Pasta Recipe
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Ingredients
  • Pasta - 2 cup (any type)
  • Onion - 1, finely chopped
  • Tomatoes - 3, medium
  • Capsicum - 1, cut into square
  • Yellow bell pepper - 1, cut into square
  • Garlic - 2 tsp, finely chopped
  • Sweet corn - ½ cup, boiled
  • Red chili powder - ¼ tsp
  • Black pepper - ½ tsp
  • Tomato ketchup - 2 tbsp
  • Cooking Oil - 1tbsp + 1 tsp (for boiling pasta)
  • Salt - to taste + ½ tsp salt
  • Grated cheese - ½ cup
Instructions
  1. Heat water in a pan and add penne pasta, 1 tsp cooking oil and ½ tsp salt. Boil pasta and keep aside.
  2. Now, blend tomatoes to a smooth paste.
  3. In a pan, heat oil and saute capsicum and yellow bell pepper and remove on tissue paper to drain excess oil.
  4. In the same pan, add 2 tsp oil and saute chopped garlic. Do not turn it brown.
  5. Add chopped onion to the pan. Cook till onion become translucent.
  6. Add prepared tomato paste to the onion. Mix well.
  7. When the raw taste goes away from tomatoes add red chili powder, black pepper and salt to taste. Mix Well.
  8. Add 2 tbsp tomato ketchup. Stir.
  9. Add boiled sweet corn and pan-fried capsicum and yellow bell pepper. Mix.
  10. Add boiled pasta. Mix very well as to coat pasta with the red sauce.
  11. Add grated cheese over the pasta and mix well. Remove from gas.
  12. Red Sauce pasta is ready. Serve hot.
Notes
Do not over boil pasta.
You can use any type of pasta, I have used penne pasta here.
In place of fresh tomato paste, tomato puree can also be used. It is readily available in market.
Recipe by Indian Cuisine at https://www.indicuisine.com/how-to-make-red-sauce-pasta-recipe/