Hot Schezwan Pasta Recipe – Schezwan Spaghetti Recipe

Preparation Time : 20 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins
Serves : 2

Ingredients:


For Schezwan Sauce: (makes 1 cup sauce)Dry Red Chillies -30
Garlic – 20 cloves crushed
Ginger – 4 tblspn grated
Tomato ketchup – 3 tblspn
Soya Sauce – 1 tblspn
Salt to taste
Black Pepper Powder – 1 tsp (if you have schezwan pepper use them)
Sugar – 2 tsp
Oil – 1/4 cup

For Pasta:
Butter – 1 tblspn
Schezwan Sauce – 2 to 3 tblspn or to taste
Spaghetti or any pasta – 200 grams
Water lots of it
Salt to taste
Peas – 1 cup ( i used frozen)
Coriander leaves or Parsley a handful finely chopped
Cheese – 1/2 cup grated

Method:

Take dry chillies and cut the top open. Remove the seeds out of it. You can just invert it and roll between your hands, the seeds just fall off.Now take the chillies and add it to a sauce pan. Add 1 cup of water and bring it to boil. Simmer it for 5 mins.By this time the chillies must have plumped up. Drain chillies. Reserve the water, you need that for grinding.Take the chillies in a blender add the reserved water slowly and make them into a paste. Set aside till use.

Now heat oil in a sauce pan. Add in garlic and ginger. Fry it for couple of mins.Now add in the chilli paste and mix well. Now add in ketchup, soya sauce, salt, sugar and pepper. Mix well.Simmer this sauce for 5 to 8 mins.Now the sauce is done. Cool this and store in a clean air tight container refrigerated.

Now cook pasta in boiling salted water as per package directions. Drain and set aside.

When the pasta is cooking, heat butter in a pan. Add in sauce and cook well.

Add in peas and toss well.

Add in the cooked drained hot pasta and mix well.

Add in parsley and cheese and mix well.

Serve.