" Easy white sauce pasta recipe..."

Ingredients:

Macaroni or penne pasta - 1 cup

Salt - as per taste

Maida - 3 tsp

Butter - 2 tsp

Milk - 1 cup

Black pepper - 1/2 tsp

Red chilli flakes - 1tsp

Oregano - 1 tsp

Chopped capsicum - 1/4 cup

Chopped carrot -1/4 cup

Chopped onion - 1/4 cup

Chopped garlic - 1/2 tsp

Mozerella cheese - 1/2 cup grated

Method:

1. Boil water in a pan, add salt and some drops of oil. Cook the pasta for 7 minutes or till done.

Drain the water and wash the pasta in running cold water.

2.  Take butter in a pan and add all the veggies and saute for 3 minutes.

3. Take the veggies out of the butter and in the same butter add maida. Saute till the color changes slightly.

4. Add milk to this mixture and whisk and cook till the mixture thickens.

5. Add chilli flakes, oregano, salt and black pepper. Mix well. If the mixture seems too thick you can add some water.

6. Add the sauted veggies. Mix well on low flame.

7. Now add boiled pasta and mix well again. Add the grated mozerella cheese and mix again on low flame.

8. Mix well on medium flame and serve hot.

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"Kashmiri Methimaaz Recipe..."

Ingredients:

Damin (lamb stomach) -1kg

Mocha (lamb intestine) -1kg

Turmeric - 2 tsp

Red chilli powder - 2 tsp

Ginger powder - 1 tsp

Fennel powder - 1 tsp

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Garlic - 10-15 cloves or 4 tsp garlic paste

Fried onion paste - 4 tsp

Salt to taste

Black cardamom - 2

Green cardamom - 8

Cloves - 8

Cinnamon stick - 2 medium

Dried methi leaves (fenugreek) -3 tsp

Oil - 8 tsp

Red food color (optional) - few drops

Method:

1. Wash the lamb stomach and lamb intestine properly in cold water. Take a pan filled with water and boil this water. Turn off the flame.

2. Cut the intestines and stomach in medium sized pieces and put two pieces in warm water at a time for 2 minutes, cover with lid and take out these pieces and remove/ scratch the outer layer with the help of knife. (Do not boil these pieces in water)

3. These pieces should be clean now and wash them under running water. Now take some water again in the pan,add a little bit of turmeric in it and add some garlic cloves/ paste too and boil these intestines and stomach pieces in water. Discard this water, Repeat this process two times.

4. Now these pieces should be clean. Take a chopping board and chop these medium sized pieces into small pieces.

5. Take 3 cups water in a cooker and add all spices and salt except cumin seeds and the remaining garlic cloves/ paste and the small pieces of lamb intestines and stomach in it. Bring it to boil. Cover the lid and pressure cook on medium flame for 20 minutes.

6. Open the lid, add  fried onion paste, dried methi leaves, oil and food color (optional) into this mixture. Simmer until the gravy is absorbed and oil leaves the sides of the pan. Now add cumin seeds.

7. Methimaaz is ready to be served with hot rice.

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