Tuesday 19 May 2009

Episode 115 - Stir Fried Elbow Pasta with Chicken & Cabbage

Now that would be the longest name for a recipe haha.. Hi all, I just cooked this half an hour ago and I've never cooked this before but when I tasted it, it was really good! I burnt my tongue though because I was too excited of how the taste would turn out hehe. Anyway, there's a reason why I used Elbow Pasta. Elbow pasta has holes through them and the sauce & meat can get trapped inside thus when you take a bite, you can really taste all the flavours & stuff. You can also use Penne pasta. However, I don't really like Bowtie Pasta because the middle part would be pretty chewy if you don't cook them well. I also chose to use chicken meat because it's less fatty. But beef would also be really good with this recipe.

Stir Fried Elbow Pasta with Chicken & Cabbage

Ingredients:
1/2 packet of San Remo Elbow Pasta
1 cup of minced Chicken meat (around 0.2kg+)
2 cloves of Garlic
1/2 Large Onion
1/4 of Cabbage
3 inches of Carrot
1/2 a jar of Ragulleto Romano Cheese Tomato Sauce
2-3 tablespoon of shredded Parmesan Cheese
2 tablespoon of Cheddar Cream Cheese
1 small tin of Button Mushrooms (ready sliced)
5 tablespoon of Olive Oil
2 tablespoon of Butter
Salt, Pepper and Dried Parsley
1 tablespoon of raw/brown sugar

Method:
Cook the pasta as instructed on the packet (make sure to boil your pasta with some salt in the water, around 2 tablespoon for this). When it's nearly done, you can start cooking the ingredients by using a non-stick wok, place the olive oil and butter and sate the chopped onion and garlic on medium low heat. Put in the minced meat and stir fry it for a bit. Keep in mind to always stir the meat and break it up so that it won't clump together in chunks (you can add abit of water to the meat to loosen it up before you stir fry it). Then, put in your shredded cabbage and shredded carrot and continue to stir fry everything till nearly cooked. Then dump in the sliced mushrooms. Now, you can drain the pasta and put the whole lot into the wok.

Afterthat, you can put in the sauce, shredded cheese, cream cheese and stir eveything up till it's mixed well. If the pasta seems abit dry, you can add abit more sauce. Lastly, season it with salt and pepper,parsley and add the sugar. Stir and give it a taste. Delicious innit? :oD

Serves: 4-5

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