Indianized Pasta & Garlic Bread

Serves two.

I don't have an oven or a toaster, but still find this to be a very easy-to-make dinner - using just the stove, a kadai and a pan. It takes me about 15 minutes.

(Taken using my phone one evening - please excuse the quality of the picture!)

Pasta:

You need -

2 cups of macaroni

1/2 pack of tomato puree

1 onion

2 tomatoes

Garlic salt, oregano, salt, pepper

Cheese slices (optional, but recommended)

Coriander (optional)

What you have to do -

- Boil the mac until it's soft - add some salt and a drop of oil in the water to keep it from sticking to one another

- In a kadai, sautee chopped up the onion and tomatoes, and add half a pack of puree and wait for it to bubble

- Add salt, pepper and the garlic salt and mix

- Then, add the boiled mac and mix well

- Put in the cheese slices and watch it boil into the mix

- After letting the mac absorb the 'gravy,' add some oregano, garlic salt, chopped up coriander, and then take it off the flame

Garlic Bread:

You need -

4 slices of bread (brown/multi-grain if you want to make it healthy)

Garlic Salt

Butter

Grated cheese (optional)

Chopped green chillies

What you have to do -

- Apply butter on both sides of the slices of bread and sprinkle with garlic salt

- Heat on the tawa on a low flame and wait for both sides to turn golden brown (to make it crispy, turn the flame off and leave the slices on the hot tawa for a short while)

- Sprinkle the grated cheese and green chillies on top and wait for it to form a crust (with the heat of the toast)