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Mar 2, 2014

Roasted Beets And Garlic Pasta / Roasted Beets Pasta / Pink Pasta

I made this roasted beet and garlic pasta / pink pasta for my friend Priya R of Cook like Priya as a virtual birthday treat to her. But because of my kiddo's health issue i could not share this post on time, so sorry Priya but hope you had a blasting celebration with your family and enjoyed gawking other delicious pink dishes made by our friends. This is a simple and healthy Pasta recipe and also a kid's friendly dish. The pinkish red colour pasta sure attracts kids particularly the gals would love this a lot. My boys too liked this pasta but asked me too many questions that why i prepared pink pasta for boys? Somehow i managed to answer their questions and happy that they liked the taste. we decided to share some pink recipe for her virtual birthday treat but I was not sure about the end colour of the pasta since i tried the dish with half mind so i did not take step wise pictures. After trying the ground roasted beet and garlic paste with pasta i got the right colour so took only the end process. If you like cheese feel free to add some grated Parmesan or Goat cheese or serve with a scoop of Ricotta as mentioned in the original recipe.

Recipe Source : Slightly Adapted from Simplebites.
Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 1 hour
Serves   6

Ingredients
  1. Whole Grain Spaghetti or any Pasta    1 lb
  2. Beet root   2 medium 
  3. Garlic   4 fat cloves
  4. Walnuts Toasted    1/2 cup (chopped, i used toasted Almonds) 
  5. Tomato   1/4 of a one medium tomato
  6. Olive Oil    3 tbsp
  7. Red Chilli Flakes    2 tsp or to taste
  8. Salt    to taste

Method
  • Prepare spaghetti according to package instructions. Reserve 1 cup of pasta water.
  • Preheat oven to 400 F. Drizzle beets with olive oil and wrap beets, garlic cloves and tomato tightly in foil. 
  • Roast until very tender, approximately 1 hour. After removing from oven, remove foil and let cool slightly. Carefully peel beets and coarsely chop.
  • Now in a blender, add roasted and chopped beets, garlic,tomato, 1 tbsp olive oil and toasted almonds and using pasta water blend it to a coarse paste.
  • Then heat a pan, add 1 tbsp olive oil heat it and add chilli flakes let it sizzle and add cooked and drained spaghetti and toss well.
  • Switch off the stove then add ground beets paste and toss well. If desired add grated Parmesan or ricotta and mix well.
  • That's it..Roasted Beets and Garlic Pasta ready. 

Notes:
For the light color i added less beets paste and after taking picture, i tossed the pasta with generous beets paste.
So add the beets paste according to your taste.
I tried mixing the left over beets paste with ildi batter and made dosa for kids.

12 comments:

  1. Super vibrant colored plate which is so yummy and healthy too.perfect treat for her aks.

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  2. wonderful birthday treat sis...I haven't seen a pink colored pasta...innovative recipe sis...

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  3. Lovely mouthwatering pasta. Nice colour.

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  4. Sounds yummy and very colorful dear :)

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  5. Pasta looks delicious......love the beet root flavor !!

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  6. Thats sooo irresistible, wat a fabulous looking pinky pasta, am loving it.

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  7. Super pink dish akka, looks so perfect!! Wish I was ur neighbor to enjoy this.. Boys epdio samalichutinga pola.. Nice treat for Priya akka.. :) Lovely pink clicks!!

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  8. Such a lovely n natural color ..love the clicks sangee

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  9. Love the color of the pasta, looks delicious and flavorful with the roasted beets.

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  10. wow awesome pink color pasta looks absolutely delicious and yummy !! love the pink color you got !!

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