Recipe: EZ Healthy Pasta Mix!

The bad mood streak is still there I guess. The unwillingness, the bad feelings that just grows and spurts out of nowhere.

But I had a pretty good time in school today with the mates. We got chips up to the class again for a mini-party session and wanted to get to a talk during lunch-time but which turned out to be too crowed. I mean, just imagine people queuing up for hello-kitty multiply by.. two or three?

Horrible. We turned back the moment we saw the crowd which turned out to be a pretty good thing because we didn't finish our work until the last minute. POOF!

Walked back with Suhaili and Blake to the interchange and a light dinner. Eh well, to be honest I had the kid's meal at McDonalds. For some reason, I'm addicted to the grilled chicken bun and its like the only thing that will make me eat a sliced tomato - raw. So I got them to help me get one without the toy of course! Came home, cooked a really simple and healthy pasta dish for my brother who's busy playing his game.

Recipe

• Chopped and peeled prawns (chop into 3 parts depending on how big your prawn is)
• Diced carrots
• Chopped Cauliflower
• Marinated and sliced chicken.
• Pasta sauce (I prefer Prego's fresh mushroom)

 

Well, my family members are the meat people. They like and wont be full if there's no meat in the meal. So there was lots of chicken in the refrigerator. But I love carrots, cauliflowers and thought we must add them in for that vitamin A and fibre. Typical F&N student, except that I failed them in secondary school years. :)

Method

Get a big pan, throw in the carrots and cauliflower. Add in a little water and let the fire do the work. You don't have to add in too much water, maybe half covering your diced carrots. Reason being these vegetables they consists of high water content and after heating the pan up, they actually forces the water out of them. The idea is to soften the vegetables, not to make it so watery that it'll dilute your sauce later on.

After you're done, throw in the chicken first (you can still leave the vegetables inside, if your pan is big enough, move it to the side) and then the prawns. Don't worry about overcooking, its kinda hard to..especially when there wasn't even one drop of oil added to the dish. Simply flip over for the chicken and prawn if they turns white and red on one side. (partially cooked)

Mix in pasta sauce, shake in some italian herbs from the shaker. (you can get italian herbs from supermarket normally in a small glass bottle.)

Viola! You should get this.

You can also add in some water if you find the sauces too thick but personally i felt there wasn't a need too since there's still some liquid left in the pan used for the vegetable softening and cooking of the meat. Would love to add in mushrooms, as in big mushrooms sliced except that we have emptied our mushroom inventory. :(

Serves with rice/spaghetti or even bread as fillings. Serves 3-4 for above picture that I've taken.

NOTE: You don't have to wait for the prawn and chicken to be fully cooked to flip them over. Overcooked chicken are tough and overcooked prawn taste powdery to me. To check if chicken's cooked, simply use something to poke through. If it can be easily poked (or a white liquid flows after poking), it is done. Prawn usually get cooked real fast so no worries there. A non-stain pan might be a good investment. I used tefal's, the one that has a red ring in the middle which indicate when the pan is hot. It's really good because it doesn't splatter things around, cooks evenly and hassle-free when it comes to cleaning. :D