PASTA SQUARES

Ingredients:

For Pasta:

Macaroni – 200 gms

Spinach puree – 4-5 tbsp

Mushrooms – 4-5

Cheese – 1 cup (grated)

Butter to grease the dish

For sauce:

Maida – 2 tbsp

Milk – 50 ml

Eggs – 2

A pinch of nutmeg powder

For garnishing:

Garlic pods -5-6

Oil – 1 tbsp

Red chilli powder – ½ tsp

Method:

• For pasta: Boil the macaroni in salted water. Drain and keep aside. Cut the mushrooms into circles.
• For sauce: mix the Maida and milk carefully so that no lumps form. Beat the eggs and mix into the milk together with the nutmeg powder.
• Mix in the spinach and the cooked macaroni.
• Grease an ovenproof dish and pour the macaroni mixture into this and cover with grated cheese.
• Bake in an oven till the cheese is golden brown and the pasta has baked into a cake.
• Cool and cut into squares.

For garnishing:

Heat the oil in a pan and add the peeled garlic pods and the red chilli powder and allow to smoke for a few seconds.

Sprinkle this on the baked pasta squares.

Serve hot or cold.