Penne Florentine

Bored of the same indian food daily,try out some italian and mexican food !
I love thin crust italian pizza along with authentic italian soups, dinesh loves lasania.

I would like to share a simple receipe of pasta/penne , slightly indianised, so everybody would simply love it!

Ingredients for penne florentine:

• Penne - 100 gms
• palak/green spinach leaves - 3 bunches (depending on their size!)
• 2 cups of milk or 1/2 cup of cream
• black pepper - 1 tsp grounded/powdered
• green,red and yellow capsicum - each 1 sliced
• oil - 3tsp
• salt - to taste

Method :

• Cook penne/pasta as we do normally,strain and wash in cold water and add some oil so that it does not stick with each other.
• Clean and wash palak/spinach leaves several times,boil and grind them into a paste(as we do for palak panner)
• Heat a kadai add oil and fry the red ,yellow and green peppers and remove them in a cup
• now in the same kadai add the blended pureed spinach and when it comes to a boil add salt and the fried peppers
• slowly add the cooked penne and stir well snd wait for two mins so that the penne binds well with spinach
• Add a tsp of pepper for spice and milk or cream.
• Stir well for a minute and serve hot!

Serving suggestions:

Taste best along with garlic bread and some corn soup!