Pasta!
Taken from www.tarladalal.com
Put a vesselful of water to boil, add the tomatoes and cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Peel and chop them finely. Keep aside.
Heat the butter in a pan, add the onions rings and sauté till they turn translucent.
Add the capsicum rings and mix well.
Take out a few onion and capsicum rings for the garnish.
Add the tomatoes, garlic and chilli powder and cook while stirring continuously for 4 to 5 minutes.
Add the pasta, baked beans, tomato ketchup and salt and mix well. Keep aside.
Grease a baking dish and put the mixture in it. Cover with the reserved onion and capsicum rings and sprinkle cheese on top.
Bake in a hot oven at 200°C (400°F) for 20 minutes.
Serve hot.
I love it! You love it! We all love it! It is the quintessential fast food of today. All restaurants serve pasta in one form or the other.
Pasta comes in hundreds of different shapes and sizes but the most popularly known is the humble Macaroni.
Other shapes include Penne, slanting, and hollow shaped suitable for saucy pastas as it can hold a lot of sauce, Farafalle, a bow shaped pasta suitable for meat sauces, Fusilli, a spiral shaped short cut pasta suitable for casseroles and salads, Lasagne, flat sheets of pasta suitable for a layered pasta dish and the famous Spaghetti!
Pasta comes in hundreds of different shapes and sizes but the most popularly known is the humble Macaroni.
Other shapes include Penne, slanting, and hollow shaped suitable for saucy pastas as it can hold a lot of sauce, Farafalle, a bow shaped pasta suitable for meat sauces, Fusilli, a spiral shaped short cut pasta suitable for casseroles and salads, Lasagne, flat sheets of pasta suitable for a layered pasta dish and the famous Spaghetti!
Dried pasta in different shapes are available everywhere today with different varities like coloured pasta, whole wheat etc…But I like to make fresh pasta using flour and egg and make some wonderful Ravioli or Cannelloni.
I was not in the mood to have a white sauce pasta and did not have a lot of veges in my fridge. But I wanted to eat pasta. While going through my cookbooks I found a wonderful pasta recipe in Tarla Dalal’s ‘The Pleasures of Vegetarian Cooking’. I loved the recipe as it only required two major ingredients, macaroni and baked beans!
A quick soup followed by this filling pasta dish made a sumptuous dinner for the two of us. This is also a hit at parties and almost no effort can produce an exotic dish for 6-8 people!
Here is the recipe…
Macaroni Hot Pot
Taken from www.tarladalal.com 
Ingredients
1 cup cooked macaroni
1 large can baked beans
100 g grated cooking cheese
2 capsicums
4 large sized tomatoes
1/3 cup tomato ketchup
4 cloves garlic crushed
3 onions
1 tsp chilly powder
2 tbsp butter
salt to taste
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