Aglio Olio / Pasta with Olive Oil and Garlic

The simplest of all pasta. How can a recipe be so easy to make and taste so luxurious?
Aglio = Garlic
Olio = Oil
This basic recipe has no vegetables added, but when they serve the same in restaurants either Mushrooms or Broccoli is added. How can explain the exorbitant cost otherwise?!

Ingredients for 1 person:
Pasta (preferably Spaghetti) - 150 gms
Olive Oil - 5 tbsp
Garlic chopped - 1 heaped tbsp
Chilly flakes - 1 tsp
Holy Basil to garnish (optional)

Method:
Boil the pasta in heavily salted water till cooked.
Warm the olive oil in a heavy bottomed vessel and add the garlic.
Once garlic sizzles and starts turning golden, add the chilly flakes.
Add the (cooked and) drained pasta and mix well.
Serve garnished with chopped basil leaves.

A side of crusty bread will soak up the beautiful oil!!

No cook Ripe Mango curry / Trikkur Mampazha curry

Just 3 main ingredients are used to make this amazing yummy dish and the best part is - no cooking!

Recipe Courtesy: Mrs.Latha Shankar

Ingredients:

Ripe Mangoes - 2

Green Chilly - 2

Fresh Curd - 1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Tadka:

Coconut oil - 1 tbsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Dry red Chilly - 1, broken

Curry Leaf - 10

Method:

Peel the skin of the mangoes and keep the skin aside. Do not throw it away.

Now add 1 tbsp water to the peel and squish. Remove as much juice as you can from it.

Now add the peeled mangoes and squish them both. Leave them inside the curry.

Pound the green chillies and add to the curry.

Add the salt..

Break the curd and add to the curry.

Mix well and top with curry leaf.

Splutter the mustard seeds in coconut oil and add the broken red chillies.

Add this to the curry.

That's it!! The curry is done.

Serve with spicy and bitter South Indian Pitla made with Bitter gourd or Sambar.