The first time in my life, the pasta was over-cooked, which didn't seem so when I mixed with vegetables. Once I mixed them both, I found it all mushy, felt bad. Normally, when I cook pasta, hubby loves it and hardly anything will be left over.
As I hate wasting food, today decided to make pakoras, as that is anyway what hubby wanted along with his afternoon coffee. The pakoras were crisp, so hubby asked me what all I added to make it!
INGREDIENTS
left-over pasta 1 cup along with veges
onion medium size 2 finely chopped
besan about 1/2 cup
rice flour 1/2 cup or little more
salt and chili pdr. to taste
hing little
ajwain crushed with hands 1/4 tsp
peanuts 2 tbsp
oil for frying
METHOD
mixed all the ingredients well, except oil
once oil was hot, made pakoras by dropping small pieces with my hand
fry til brown and crisp, serve hot with tea/ coffee.
NOTE- how much pasta is left-over, according to that you can add the ingredients, it also depends on the number of people for whom you're making it.
Hence quantities of besan, rice flour can be increased or decreased.
I prefer to add little more rice flour than besan always to have the pakoras crisp.