Butter Corn Pasta - Easy Pasta Recipes

Category: Pasta / Macaroni 
Preparation Time: 10 mins  
Cooking Time: 15-20 mins
Servings: 1-2 servings

Yummy Cheesy Pasta

Butter corn pasta is one of the easy pasta recipes and a favourite among the kids. 

If we have pasta sauce in hand, we can do this in a jiff, if not we can also use finely chopped tomatoes or pureed tomato. 

Butter Corn Pasta

We can also add finely chopped bellpeppers to it to make it more nutritious and colourful. 

Adding cheese is an optional here, it tastes good even without the cheese.

Ingredients:

• Pasta - 1 cup (I used small Ditalini Pasta)
• Sweet corn, frozen - 1/2 cup 
• Pasta sauce - About 1/2 cup (use as needed)
• Butter - 1 Tbsp
• Basil leaves / Italian seasoning - to taste
• Salt - to taste
• Pepper powder - to taste
• Mozzarella cheese, grated - as required (Optional)
• Water - as required

 Notes:

• This time I have used store brought Organic Garden vegetable Pasta sauce here and you can find one of my home made pasta sauce recipe here: Homemade Pasta Sauce
• If we are not having pasta sauce in hand, we can replace it with pureed tomatoes or tomato paste. In that case, add finely chopped clove of garlic while sautéing and a little more Italian seasoning at the end
• For make it more interesting and colorful, we can add finely chopped coloured bellpeppers along with the sweet corn

Broccoli - Sweet corn stir fry

Category: Stir fried veggies
Cooking Time: 10-12 mins
Servings: 2-3 Servings

Preparation Time: 10 mins 

Broccoli - Sweet corn stir fry is a very easy & versatile recipe and we make it often. This is very much kid-friendly and we can adjust the spices as per our taste and recipe. 

Broccoli - Sweet corn Stir Fry!

If we are using as a side dish for Indian rice varieties or kathi rolls, I use Garam masala and lime juice; for sandwich filling I prefer Italian seasoning and will add cheese along with it. Also we can just add cooked rice and mix it up to have a quick veggie rice :) Choice is up to us:)

Tasty & Healthy :)

Ingredients:

• Broccoli florets - 2 cups
• Sweet corn kernels - 1 cup (I used frozen)
• Extra virgin Olive Oil / any cooking oil - 2 tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Garlic - 1 Tbsp, finely chopped
• ٭Spice Powder - 1/2 tsp

Zucchini & Sweet corn Quesadilla (With Whole Wheat Tortillas / Rotis)

 Category: Kids Recipes 
Preparation Time: 15 mins        
Cooking Time: 20 mins      
Servings: 2-3 servings

Quesadilla: A quesadilla is a Mexican dish and type of taco, consisting of a tortilla that is filled primarily with cheese, and sometimes meats and spices, and then cooked on a griddle. Traditionally, a corn tortilla is used, but it can also be made with a flour tortilla, particularly in northern Mexico and the United States (Source: Wikipedia) 

Zucchini & Sweet corn Quesadilla

Quesadilla is a very easy recipe and perfect for busy weekday dinners. Also kids love them so much since it has Cheese in it :) It also makes a good lunch-box option. For this recipe, I  make tortillas from whole wheat flour, we can also use our regular rotis / chapathis.

So Cheesy!!!!

Ingredients:

• Whole Wheat Tortillas / Rotis - 5 
• Zucchini / Italian squash - 1 (2 cups sliced)
• Sweet corn, steamed - 1 cup
• Garlic, chopped - 1 Tbsp
• Mozzarella cheese, shredded - 1/2 cup to 1 cup (use as required)
• Olive oil - 2 tsp

Quinoa salad with Black beans & Sweet corn

Category: Quinoa recipes / Salads
Preparation Time: 10 mins  
Cooking Time: 20 mins

Servings: 2 -3 servings

 Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah) is an excellent complete protein source for vegetarians. 

It is not only healthy but also very easy and quick to cook. 

Quinoa salad with Black beans & Sweet corn

We love the combination of black beans and sweet corn in pastas, quesadillas and also as a side dish for Chapathi. 

                                           

This quinoa salad is a quick fix lunch option if we have the cooked quinoa, black beans and sweet corn in hand. Quinoa can be cooked in stovetop or pressure cooker. Nowadays am using my Instant pot for cooking the quinoa.

Please refer my detailed post on how to cook quinoa in instant pot and stovetop here: How to cook Quinoa in Instant pot & Stovetop?

                                   

Ingredients: 

• Quinoa, cooked - 1 1/2 cup (1/2 cup uncooked)
• Black beans, cooked - 1/3 cup
• Sweet corn, cooked - 1/3 cup
• Tomato, finely chopped - 1 small
• Coriander leaves, chopped - 1/4 cup
• Green chilly, finely chopped - 1-2 no's (can be avoided if making for kids)