Pasta Frenzy

I hate HATE HATE preparing complicated meals especially during weekdays. Here are two of my family's favorite weekday dinners. Trust me, if you did not accidentally amputate your fingers while chopping the garlic or carelessly dip your fingers into the boiling pasta, I can assure you that dinner will be served in just a mare 30 minutes or less!

Here goes... L'abeille's cheese-less and healthy dinner for twos...

Lemony Tuna Pasta with Zucchini & Dried Chili



You'll need:
2 handful of alphabet pasta [boiled and drained]
1 can of tuna flakes in Olive oil [drained but save 1 tablespoon of olive oil for frying later]
3 dried chillies [soaked, remove seeds and sliced thinly]
1 clove garlic [roughly chopped]
Lemon juice [to taste]
Sea salt & crushed pepper [to taste]


Method:

1. Heat up the nonstick pan, pour the olive oil into the pan.
2. Add in the sliced dried chillies and garlic. Saute until fragrant.
3. Stir in the tuna flakes and mix well with the dried chillies and garlic.
4. Add in lemon juice, salt and crushed pepper.
5. Stir in the cooked pasta and mix evenly.

Dinner's Serve!
Easy isn't it?

Here's another one..

Lazy Chunky Chicken Pasta

My "assistant" chief...

A packet of Bolognese sauce mix comes in handy

when I'm too lazy to make my own sauce

A few stalks of fresh rosemary goes perfectly

well with chicken.

Chop the rosemary coarsely and I've also add in

a few bay leaves for the flavor.

Shred 1 small carrot, cubed 2 tomatoes, onions and garlic

About a 150gm of chicken fillet.

Don't mince, just chop coarsely.

Marinate with a little bit of sea salt and crushed pepper

Ok, Ingredients ready in 5 minutes, pasta's cooked, what's next?

Heat up the nonstick pan, add in the onions and garlic

together with the chopped rosemary and bay leaves.

Stir..stir...stir...

Next, add in the tomatoes, carrots and chicken.

Stir in the sauce mix and 1 1/2 cup of water.

Stir...stir..stir..

You might want to add in a dash of worchester sauce,

a dash of ketchup for th extra Ummmppp!

Add salt and pepper to taste.

Pour the chunky gravy over the pasta,

sprinkle some freshly crushed black pepper and serve!

Other serving suggestion:
Serve them with crusty bread, roll them up with tortilla,

spreading them on pizza base or use it as pie filling...slurppppp!

Ta-dah! Another easy meal served in less than 30 minutes!

Other similar recipe: Jamie Oliver's sundried tomatoes & pesto