Cherry tomato and roasted garlic spaghetti

We love pastas and have tried to prepare a variety of them from many years. Though I favourite being a simple aglio olio. In India you get good vegetarian options of pasta but you cannot say the same in other countries. Most of them will be seafood or meat. 

But at home atleast we can prepare a sumptuous vegetarian pasta. You can except lot more pasta recipes from VegCookHouse .

Cherry tomatoes are ignored in Indian cooking. The sweet yet sour taste of cherry tomatoes makes it a good candidate to use in other cuisines. Guess we should experiment with cherry tomatoes in South indian cuisine. 

We use garlic a lot in our food but never roasted it much. The roasted flavour of garlic is mouth watering.

A unique pasta with these two ingredients. We used spaghetti but can also use fusilli, penne  , angel hair pasta

Ingredients:

spaghetti pasta - 200 gms
cherry tomatoes - 100 gms
garlic pods - 15
butter - 2 tbspn
olive oil - 3 tbspn
green chillies - 2
salt - 1 tspn to taste

Procedure:

Take a pot and add water to it. add 1/2 tspn of salt to it and bring it to boil. Add the spaghetti to it. cook it for 3 mins until the pasta is almost cooked (dont cook it completely).

Drain the water ,rinse it with cold water along with a few drops of oil. once completely drained add a drop of oil to the pasta and spread it across. This will avoid stickiness.

Take a pan and add butter and 1 tbspn of olive oil. Chop green chillies to fine. add green chillies and garlic to the pan and fry it till brown.it should be roasted well almost like burnt garlic.

Cut the cherry tomatoes to half. add the tomatoes to the pan and fry it. add salt and cook with closed lid for 1 minute. cherry tomatoes cook very quickly.

once cooked add the spaghetti and mix well. add 2 tbspn of olive oil and mix it well till the pasta is blended.

If you dont want to use butter can replace it with olive oil only.