Italian Recipe: Spaghetti puttanesca

Spaghetti puttanesca  is a spicy, tangy, somewhat salty Italian pasta dish.  The ingredients are typical of Southern Italian cuisine: tomatoes, olive oil, olives, chili pepper, capers, garlic.

Ingredients:

400 gr spaghetti

400 gr peeled tomatoes or tomato puree

2 tablespoon parsley

8 filler anchovy

100 gr pitted olives or gaeta olives

4-5 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon of capers in salt 

2 cloves of garlic

1 fresh chili or powdered chili pepper

Method

1. Cook the spaghetti in salted boiling water and drain the cooked spaghetti.
2.  Heat extra virgin olive oil and fry chili and garlic. Stir well on a low flame.
3. Add capers and olives and stir for few minutes.
4. Add tomato puree and continue cooking for 4-5 minutes, until you have lovely tomato sauce consistency.
5. Add parsley leaves.
6. Add drain spaghetti into it and stir well.

Your Spaghetti puttanesca is ready to serve. Serve hot with more olives and parsely leaves.

Coconut Cake

The cake is tender, creamy and moist. Perfect for tea time.

It's a spongy cake and delicious one. Has a good taste of milk,cream and coconut..Yummy... :-)

Really a quick dessert and can serve with fruits and whipped cream.

So just try it..

Ingredients:

1 Cup Cream

1 Cup superfine sugar

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

2 Cup all purpose flour

1/4 tea spoon baking powder

1 cup dessicated Coconut

1 cup milk powder or 1/2 cup milk powder

Milk – as required, to adjust batter to dropping consistency max 75 ml

1/2 cup Custard Powder

Vanilla essence

 Method:

 Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius.

1. Mix all purpose flour,Custard powder, milk powder, baking powder and baking soda together.
2. Add cream,sugar,vanilla essence and milk.
3. Beat cream mixture well till  blended smoothly.
4. Then add flour and coconut into the cream mixture.
5. Again beat well till blended smoothly.
6. Add adequate milk to achieve a batter of dropping consistency.
7. Pour the batter into a greased baking pan.
8. Add some Choco Chips into it.
9. Bake it for about 45-50 minutes or till done.  

Your delicious Coconut Cake is ready to serve.