SAIL IN PASTA
ingredients
Pasta 2 cups
Coconut milk 3 cups
Lemon grass 2 sticks chopped
Galangal 1 thumb size
Salt 2 tbls +as required
Chicken 100 gm bite size pieces
Fish sauce 1 tbls
Thai red chilli 1 or 2
lemon juice 1 tbls
Dry red chillies 3 or 4 soaked in warm water
Garlic cloves 3 or 4
Pepper corns 1/4th tsp
Cumin seeds 1 tsp
Corriender seeds 1 tsp
Onion 1 chopped
Olive oil 4 tbls
Basil leaves 8 to 10
Lemon zest 1 tbls
red .yellow green bell pepper 2-2tbls each cut into triangular pieces
Baby corn 2 cut diagnaly
brocoli 3-4 florets cut length wise
To garnish
1 big oval potato
Tomato slice
Tooth pick
Method
Boil enough water in a big pan add 2 tbls of salt when it starts boiling add 2 cups pasta stir in between boil for about 7-8minutes check if done drain the water it should be slightly under cooked.
Heat a wok add 2 cups of coconut milk half of galangal and half of lemon grass cook on low flame for 3-4minutes add chicken pieces cook till done add 1 1/2 cup boiled pasta stir well add thai red chillies 1 tbls.fish sauce and 1 tbls lemon juice can add lemon leaves also.keep aside
Make paste of soaked dry red chillies.garlic.onion.rest of galangal rest of lemon grass little salt and some water and grind in a fine paste
Heat oil in a wok add the paste sauté for 4_5minutes add all vegetables and add some pasta water add red chilli powder and boiled leftover pasta mix well add coconut milk lemon zest and lemon juice.mix well.
Boil the potato peel and cut into 2 pieces scoop out the inner portion to make it hollow
now deep fry till golden .take a slice of tomato and fix it on fried potato with the help of tooth pick to make a boat fill the boat with pasta
For plating first fill white pasta in a bowl and keep it upside down in the centre of a plate now keep red pasta around the bowl then remove the Bowl this way we will have the white pasta in the centre and the red one around it now keep the prepared boat on top of white pasta .
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