Pasta - a dish that increases your appetite with its name only! If you have a microwave, you don't need to go to any restaurant and spend hefty amount to taste delicious pasta. It is not difficult to cook pasta in a microwave.
The first and easiest dish can be prepared using pasta shells (also known as conchiglie). In order to make this pasta, put a cup full of conchiglie in a microwave safe container. Now add a teaspoon of olive oil, a sprinkle of dried basil, chopped tomatoes and a crushed clove of garlic in the container. Cover it with microwave safe wrap and cook it for three minutes at full power. Remove the container from microwave and stir it. You can add two tablespoons of water, if you need some more liquid in your dish and cook it again for another two minutes on full power. Take the container out of the microwave and stir it and leave it open for two minutes. If you're a vegetarian, the dish would be one of the quickest dishes to prepare.
Fish lovers can try making tuna pasta with sweet corn. Take a bowl of water and put six strips of lasagna in it and leave it for an hour to soak. Now put a three-fourth cup of flour, a teaspoon of oil and a half chopped onion in microwave safe dish. Cook it for one minute at full power. In another microwave safe dish add two cup of milk, a pinch of pepper and salt and half cup of grated cheese and cook it for four minutes. Remove the dish and stir the mixture well. Combine a tin of sweet corn and tuna and mix it with previously cooked cheese and onion mixture. Spread the mixture on the base of the dish and put two lasagna strips over it. Make three layers using six lasagna noodles. On the top of the layered dish put some cheese and cook it for fifteen minutes on full power. Leave it open for few minutes and your tuna pasta is ready to serve.
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