Mushroom White Pasta

This recipe might have taken a non-negotiable fraction of Vrashank Bhaia (aka Daddy Cool)'s  stint here at Evanston (that's some suburb in Illinois he comes to visit every fortnight, denouncing the silver spoon for not being shiny enough) but he swears he wrote this effortlessly suave piece in under ten minutes!

 

Step 1: Go to Whole Foods with a lot of money and enthusiasm to spend the next hour or so cooking.

Ingredients to buy:

1. 100gms of All Purpose Wheat Flour (Maida. I know its not good for your stomach, but neither is )

2. Salted Butter (Coz buying unsalted for same price and adding salt doesnt make marwari sense)

3. Mushroom (diced would be nice. if you buy whole, you'll  have to dice them. I mean duh. )

4. Mozarrella cheese (but the one on discount - do I need to be telling you all this? God. Keep up!)

5. One Onion (One, not two. They're huge. You dont need more than a half for this.)

6. Green Chillies (no, you can't take them for free with Dhania here you gotta pay for this shit)

7. One Capsisum (Again, just the one. They come real big here for some reason.)

8. Olive Oil (You could just use Sunfoil that you got from India, but then you're making pasta, not palak. Go full Italian dude! 365 Whole Foods Olive Oil is nice)

9. Milk (2% fat. I am just kidding! buy whatever % you get man who cares!)

10. Pasta (365 Whole Foods Pasta is a good choice. Rigate will work, so will any other pasta so eeny meeny miny mo, catch a pasta enough lets go)

Step 2: Walk to your Kitchen

Step 3, and this is the most important one: Keep your phone aside. There will come a time for photos. Now is not the time.

Step 4: Chop capsicum however you want. Chop onions however you want. Chop the chillies if you want.

Step 5: Boil 3 cups of milk, then keep for cooling. Why? I'm gonna go all Oogway on you and say Everything is done for a reason.

Step 6: In a pan, heat olive oil for 20 seconds, then put the stuff you just chopped and fry. Add a spoon of butter. Then while its cooking, shove your face over the upcoming steam and inhale that breath of heaven. If thats what terrorists were promised in return for suicide missions, it'd make sense.

Step 7: In another pan, boil 3 glasses of water. Then put pasta (half the box for 2 people should be MORE than enough) and sprinkle salt. Boil it for 10 minutes and check if it has become moist. Here's the clever part (you'll thank me for it): If the pasta is soft, but you can still see the textured lines on it, TAKE IT OFF THE GAS RIGHT NOW!

Step 8: Now, comes the hard part. Alright you ready? Pull that sleeve up a little bit. Wipe the nonexistent sweat off your forehead to look prepared. Take a long breath and listen carefully.

Put 5 spoons of butter in a pan. Get it?

5 spoons. Five. Now, heat it. It becomes ghee right? Excellent! Now, put 2 tablespoons of the flour. While you're doing this, KEEP STIRRING. Oh man, I cant emphasize this enough. KEEP STIRRING. now you've put the flour and butter. Keep stirring till the edges of the pan become brown and slowly the brownish tinge comes into the center. Thats it! Thats the moment! Now, pour that milk! Just keep stirring just keep stirring, just keep stirring stirring stirring (Like Dory from Finding Nemo? No? Fine.). In a minute, this is going to become thicker and thicker till you're like "arre thick ho gaya!". Then you shut the gas.

Now, you have stirred vegetables. Boiled pasta. And White sauce.

Put everything together, add a glass of water, add salt and pepper. Now watch the magic come to life. The mushroom and butter is gong to combine with the milk and create that part of life called Happiness. This part right here - its called "achievement unlocked!".

What's left?

A photo and three hungry souls! All the best! Thank my friend who told me all of this

And This!