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DISH
- 2 bell peppers
- 4 black olives
- 12 green olives
- 500 g spaghetti
- 1 package sliced cheese
- 1/2 spinach puree
- Salt
TOMATO SAUCE
- 1 onion
- 1 tomato paste
- 800 g crushed tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 package mozzarella
OTHER PASTA COLORS
- A handful of crushed blueberries will ensure a beautiful blue-purple color
- 1 tablespoon turmeric will color the pasta yellow
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon for orange-brown pasta
- 4 tablespoons pickled beetroot will color the pasta red
INSTRUCTIONS
- 1Place about half of the spinach puree into a large pasta pot. If it's frozen, that's fine, it will thaw in boiling water. Pour water over the spinach so that the spaghetti can still fit into the pot without problems (there should be at least 5 cm of space from the rim of the pot). Salt the water and bring it to a boil.
- 2Add the spaghetti to the boiling water with spinach puree and cook according to the time indicated on the package.
- 3After cooking, drain the spaghetti. If you mind the remnants of spinach puree on the pasta, you can rinse them to remove the puree.
- 4From the sliced cheese, cut out 8 circles and 8 smaller triangles using a knife or a cookie cutter, which will represent the monster's teeth. Cut out 8 slightly smaller circles from the bell peppers and halve both black and green olives.
- 5For the final serving, be inspired by the picture. Place a portion of pasta and layer the prepared tomato sauce on top to form a circle, exactly as shown in the picture. On top of the sauce, place two cheese circles side by side, then place bell pepper circles on them, and on each bell pepper circle, place one half of a black olive. Arrange halves of green olives side by side to form a mouth, and place the cheese triangles representing teeth underneath them.
TOMATO SAUCE INSTRUCTIONS
- 1Finely chop the onion and sauté it in olive oil. As soon as the onion becomes translucent, add minced or finely chopped garlic. Stir everything together.
- 2Add tomato paste and sauté the mixture over medium heat for about a minute.
- 3Then add crushed tomatoes to the mixture, stir, and let it simmer together for at least 5 minutes.
- 4Season with salt and pepper, and finally add grated mozzarella to the sauce.
TIP
- 1Pasta doesn't have to be just green; nature offers many other magical colors that are truly pleasing to the eye. For red spaghetti, add several tablespoons of pickled beetroot to the water instead of spinach. Ground turmeric best colors yellow pasta. You will achieve a beautiful blue-purple color if you add a handful of crushed blueberries to the boiling water. Orange-brown pasta will be ensured by adding cinnamon.
