One Dish Dinners Made Easy

One dish dinners are the most ideal solution to weekday meals when time is at a premium. If you're a beginner, you will find these meals a boon, while those with simple dinner notions will appreciate the fact that not too many work is required by way of utensils and cookware.

Find these recipes that you can make from your fresh or frozen as well as storecupboard ingredients and leftovers. This is a made-in-minutes main course with vegetarians in view.


Pasta Twists with Mushrooms and Tomatoes

Ingredients

- 2 cups dried whole-wheat pasta spirals
- 2 tsps olive oil
- 4 tbsps corn oil
- 1 onion
- 21/2 cup mushrooms
- 4 large tomatoes
- 31/2 ounces process cheese slices
- 4 tbsps minced fresh parsley
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup heavy cream

Procedure

Grease a fairly deep casserole. Preheat oven to 400F.
Bring a large saucepan of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and olive oil and cook for about 10 minutes or until just tender. Drain pasta. Set aside.

Chop onion. Wipe mushrooms and slice thinly.

Heat half the corn oil in a large skillet. Add onion and saute' for 5 minutes or until softened or pale gold. Stir in rest of corn oil. Add mushrooms and saute' for 3 minutes more.

Cut a small cross in each tomato. Put into a heatproof bowl. Cover with boiling water.
Let stand for 1 minute. Rinse under cold water. When cool enough to handle, slip off skins. Slice tomatoes.

Layer prepared dish with pasta, sauteed onions and mushrooms, sliced tomatoes, half the cheese and half the parsley, sprinkling salt and pepper between the layers.

Trickle in the cream, top with remaining cheese slices and bake uncovered for 20 minutes. Garnish with rest of parsley and serve at once.

For non-vegetarian, serve with broiled bacon or sausages.