Sunday, August 29, 2021

Baked Macaroni

In the early 80’s this dish was served to us by a German lady who had married a Kannadiga man, in Manipal. I loved it, took recipe from her and it used to be a regular item at home.

Ingredients

200 gms macaroni (in the pictures I have used pasta)

Salt to tast

1 large Brinjal or 2 to 3 small ones

1 tsp garam masala powder

2 to 3 tomatoes

2 large onions

½ tsp nutmeg powder

½ tsp pepper powder

2 tbsps milk

1 egg

1 tbsp butter

½ cup grated cheese

½ tsp oregano

Instruction

-          Keep 4 glasses of water with salt and ¼ tsp oil to boil and drop the pasta. Let it cook (takes about 12 minutes) and then drain and keep aside.

-          While it is being cooked, slice the brinjals into rounds of 1cm thickness. Sprinkle salt and garam masala powder on both sides and keep for about 15 minutes.

-          Slice onions and tomatoes into rounds.

-          Fry the brinjal slices till brown on both sides. Then lightly fry the onion slices.

-          Grease a baking dish and spread half of the cooked macaroni on the bottom.

-          Arrange fried brinjal slices on top of it. Arrange sliced tomatoes over it, and then fried onion slices.

-          Now put the remaining macaroni on top.

-          Beat the egg, add milk and nutmeg and pepper powder, beat again and pour over the macaroni.

-          Arrange butter on the top, and finally the grated cheese. Here I have used Amul cheese slice pieces.

-          Bake on a pre-heated oven at 180 degrees for ½ hour till cheese is melted and a little brown.

-          You can also bake for 25 minutes and then grill for 5 minutes.

-          Can sprinkle oregano on top. And serve hot with tomato ketchup and salad. 



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