Sweet Chilli Macaroni with Smoked Mozarella
servings4
This will make a perfect weekend pasta, as you can serve it hot as a meal or cold as a salad or side dish. So it makes for an ideal picnic lunch, so no matter which way or meal you are going to serve this, I know that you are going to love it.
Ingredients
- 250 g macaroni
- 1 can sweet chill tomato and onion mix or 6 ripe tomatoes
- small onion chopped
- 1 Tablespoon sweet chilli sauce this is only if you are using fresh tomatoes or canned tomato which does not have chiil added
- 1 Tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 small green bell pepper chopped
- 1 teaspoon chilli powder optional
- 1 teaspoon mustard powder optional
- ½ cup grated smoked mozzarella
- ¼ cup grated cheddar cheese
- feta to crumble
- cilantro/ parsley to garnish
- 10 ml oil
Instructions
- Boil pasta according to package instructions.
- Heat oil in a pan, and add chopped onion and chopped bell pepper. Cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes until the onions and pepper are softened
- Add the can of tomato and onion mix or your chopped tomatoes to the onions and pepper and put in the chilli powder and mustard powder now if using. Squirt in the soy sauce.
- If you are using a plain tomato and onion mix or chopped tomatoes then add in your sweet chilli sauce now.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Cook for about 10 minutes until slightly reduced.
- As soon as the pasta has finished cooking, strain out the water but do not rinse.
- Stir the cooked pasta into the cooked sweet chilli tomato mix anx mix together well to coat evenly
- Mix in the smoked mozzarella and cheddar and stir to combine.
- Crumble feta over pasta and garnish with chopped cilantro or parsley.