The Pink Café

My family is pure meat eaters. They can start eating meat right from the bed, from breakfast to dinner. We are even much crazy sometimes when we go out late night and hog on meats from fast foods open through out the night and mobile food vans. I wonder how our digestive system would be cursing us for it, but looks like it is in our Mallu genes to take care of that :D Yes this is Kerala, where everyone knows a Malayali can get a meat cravings attack anytime...yes anytime :) My boys had a heavy lunch from outside (without me), yeah that happens too when 2 of them ditch me and gang up. I unaware of all facts thought to prepare a full protein exciting dish for them, put together this, all meaty, veggie, dairy extravaganza. They were planning to skip the dinner, and I was upset about it thinking through my effort.  But I had faith in my dish and also the Mallu blood, which can jump on this when they see it out from oven. And I would say, it was literally JUMPING on it...

After finding out this healthy version of pasta which is my Quinoa beetroot pasta, I am making pasta dishes quite often.  This time I thought to make a creamy Basil 🌿 Pesto flavored with roasted veggies 🌶  So making it was so easy. Just boiled pasta and roasted the veggies in butter. It has the goodness of zucchini, carrots, broccoli 🥦, bell peppers, coriander leaves and as a side crispy potatoes.   Sauce a thickened version of cream and cheese 🧀  You can see the crisp veggies, which is sautéed in high heat for just a couple of mins, and mixed only after the pasta is cooked in liquid. This helps retain the color and crispness of veggies. And about potatoes, shallow fried them and sprinkled pink salt, onion powder, garlic powder and tossed. Don't add them to pasta until you serve :) Ingredients: Pasta - 1 cup Fresh cream - 1/2 cup Cheese - 1 cube Potatoes - 2 no  Zucchini, egg plant, red and green bell pepper, carrots 🥕 , ...