Stuff you'll need:
Olive Oil
Chopped garlic and chilli paste
Finely chopped onions (about 6 medium sizes onions)
Mushrooms cut in half and nicely washed (You can either precook them in a cooker or cook em in the pan like I'm going to) (get about two boxes of button mushrooms)
Tomatoes chopped really small (not pureed...chopped is better) (About one kg of tomatos ...thats about 12 tomatoes depending on the size)
Olives sliced thin. (as many as you want)
Spices : Oregano, Pizza Masala(you get these nifty bottled spices which have a whole bunch of spices like rosemary, thyme, basil etc in it), Black pepper
Salt
Cooked pasta (Spaghetti, Fusilli, Penne, Tagliatelle, Fettucini etc. Personally I think Penne or Fettucini or Spaghetti would be good for this sauce). Cooking a pasta is simple. Just take a tall utensil, boil some water in it, put a bit of salt in it...and put your pasta in the boiling water.
It takes about 10-12 minutes to properly cook.
The way to know that its cooked properly (and not too less or too much) is to periodically take out a strand after a while and checking it out. If you bite it and the inner part is still raw...it ain't cooked. Let it cook a bit more. The moment you find that its cooked turn off the heat and strain it with a big strainer so that the water goes out and you've got cooked pasta in a bowl.
(I generally add some oregano in the water too, gives the pasta a nice flavour)
Take some olive oil (or any other oil but I've seen that olive oil gives great flavour) and put it in a pan.
Fry the garlic and chillis in this, and then add the onions. Fry em till they're almost transparent.
Then add the washed mushrooms. Add a whole lotta pepper (as much as you like) and salt and a lot of your spices on the mushroom. You really want the mushroom to take in the flavours.
Cover the pan once you've shaken the mushrooms properly so that all the spices are on them.
It takes the mushrooms about 15 minutes to cook properly. What I mean is they should be easy to poke with a fork once they are cooked. They release a lot of the water that they're washed in and the cook in that...so just let em be for a while. Keep checking every now and then though.
Then add the chopped tomatos. Now the idea of using chopped tomatos and not pureed is simple. The chopped pieces really absorb the spices brilliantly and they taste incredible with the pasta.
Put some more spices on the tomatos. The spices like I've mentioned about are taste spices...and they don't really make your food hot (I mean spicy hot)...they just give a brilliant flavour.
Anyway...let the sauce cook for a bit now.
You can use a Pav-Bhaji masher and mash the tomatos in a bit. Make em softer and more gravy like.
Add the green olives now...and let em mix in with the gravy.
Add some water and let the whole thing cook till its a nice thick gravy.
But not too thick mind you. You want it to be able to nicely flow on your pasta.
Take the cooked pasta, place it on a plate...make a small hole in the middle and pour the sauce in it. I like pasta this way...rather than mixing it with the sauce. It looks awesome. I think I have a picture of it somewhere. Lemme see if I can put it in.
Okay I think its in. I was having mountain dew with my pasta. I have no idea why its looking orange in that pic...but it goes great with pasta.
Right then! Its done!
Excellent pasta done...Musicman style! :)
Try it out and tell me what you think.
Thats all guys...till I think of something next!
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