Spaghetti with meat sauce

  Spaghetti is thin, long pasta from Italy.  Here, I used dried form of spaghetti packet, made of wheat durum semolina.  Spaghetti is topped usually with tomato sauce, with herbs like basil and oregano.  Here, I used meat sauce and the result was awesome.  The basic sauce, I used was Maggi's instant pasta sauce.  If you want an home-made one, click here

 

Since, this was my first Italian association, I followed each steps carefully.  These spaghetti were a bit denser than our instant noodles.  I cooked them till they were completely done and it went good with sauce.  They were heavy on stomach. One bite topped with sauce was completely heavenly.  I added both meat and vegetables here, vegetarians can replace the same amount of meat with additional mushrooms.

 

Nihari

Nihari is popular meat dish of Pakistan.  This arabic word meaning 'morning after sunrise', is had in breakfast.  Though meat from goat is used in main, you could also make using chicken.  It should be noted that mostly meat from shank, (ie near leg) is used.

Ingredients required

• 5 tsp oil

To make masala paste

• 5-6 cloves
• 4 cardamons
• 2 tsp shahjeera
• 1 cup of choppped onions

other

• 350gm chicken with bones
• 1 cup of chicken broth
• 1/2 tsp haldi/turmeric
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp Everest chicken masala
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 2 tsp tomato puree (optional)

Method

Heat oil and fry the blended masala (Blend all given under masala ingredients)

Add chicken pieces along with broth

Stir in all spices and tomato puree

Cover and cook till done.  Serve hot.