Recipe For Rasta Pasta - How To Make Rasta Pasta at Home

Recipe For Rasta Pasta - How To Make Rasta Pasta at Home

First Method:

This is my personal method. I've tried this countless times and still gets good results.

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1. Start by boiling the pasta in milk instead of water to save time. Add salt to the water. This method skips the draining and keeps the starch to make the sauce more creamy/glossy.

For the sauce:

2. Fry some onion, garlic, scallion and all 3 colours of sweet pepper in butter. 

Peppers

3. Season with black pepper and all purpose seasoning. Add the milk, pasta and springs of thyme. 

4. Add enough milk to cook the pasta, keep stirring a checking.

Once pasta is cooked, add some cream cheese and jerk drippings from your cooked jerk seasoned meat.

Enjoy your Rasta Pasta. 

Method Two:

Add salt to water and boil noodles according to directions on the box 

- in a bowl add raw shrimp ( peeled and deveined) and add 3 tsp of MILD jerk seasoning ( season with onion powder,obey,garlic powder,black pepper) mix. 

- add olive oil to base of pan and add shrimp cooking on both side for 3 mins each

- when shrimp are done remove from pan and in same pan add sliced bell peppers and diced onion 

-once your veggies are soft add in a tsp of minced garlic and sauté  for another minute.

- add heavy whipping cream ( turn heat on med low) 

- season with half packet of sazon , smoked paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, parsley, black pepper, Tony's Creole, and 2-3 tsp of jerk seasoning sauce. 

- add Mexican blend cheese and Parmesan cheese 

- wisk together well ... at this time taste sauce to see if you want more jerk sauce for more spice....

- add more cheese to thicken sauce or if sauce is to thick you can add water ( put on simmer) 

- add noodles and mix 

- add in shrimp ( optional

- add more season if needed!

This sounds ridiculous but boiling the pasta in milk instead of water saves time. This avoids the draining and keeps the starch to make the sauce more creamy/glossy.

Fry some onion, garlic, scallion and all 3 colours of sweet pepper in butter. Season with black pepper and salt. Add the milk, pasta and sprigs of thyme. Only add enough milk to cook the pasta, keep stirring a checking it's not boiled off.

Once pasta is cooked, add some cream cheese and jerk drippings from your cooked jerk seasoned meat.

Enjoy.

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