Healthy African dinner recipes - Vegetarian pasta

 

Ingredients

1 pack of spaghetti

One medium sized onions

Olive oil

Fresh vegetables (Ugwu/scent leaf)

One medium sized tomato

One medium bell pepper

Salt

Maggi

Garlic

Ginger

One medium sized Cucumber

One large carrot

One small sized cabbage

² The vegetarian pasta; served with cucumber, grated cabbage and carrot is a highly nutritious meal. All ingredients are fresh and proportioned for four full meals.

u The onions is peeled and sliced into half-inch thick rounds.

u Dice your, bell tomatoes and peppers, ginger and garlic.

u Grate carrot and cabbage. Set aside.

u Cut cucumber into a round thick one-inch slice. Set aside.

u Put pasta in a half-full pot salted boiling water. Boil for ten minutes.

u Extract boiled pasta with a strainer.

u Pour in half-inch olive oil in a medium pan or skillet over medium heat.

u Add your sliced half-inch thick round onions and fry until golden brown

u Carefully add your diced tomatoes and pepper.

u Allow sizzling for five minutes. 

u Season the sauce with a 1/2 teaspoon of salt, ginger, garlic and one cube of Maggi. Fry for two minutes

u Place pasta into the skillet pan.

u Stir-fry for five minutes.

u Add you washed chopped vegetables into the mix.

u Simmer over low heat, stirring routinely.

² The vegetarian pasta is plated and garnished with the cucumber, cabbage and carrot.

² And it is all prepared in less than thirty minutes.