Some people may not forgive me for this but oops, I went and did it anyway. Personally, I cannot have my pasta with anything but a light sauce like white wine, balsamic vinegar and good olive oil or drowned in the heaviest, richest tomato-based sauce. Anything else doesn’t sound like pasta to me but I didn’t have any tomato puree or sauce or pesto and I’d randomly seen a yoghurt pasta recipe today. Curiousity killed the cat. That’s the general saying.
I was kind of killed with this — not in a good way. It was nice, I’ll give it that. But I don’t think I was actually eating a proper dish of pasta and I doubt I’ll make it again except maybe with fresh herbs to bring out the flavour better.
I added chilli because it reminded me of a curry. And yoghurt helps to cool the tongue if it gets too fiery. I don’t know if I did the right thing. I loved the lemony, basil-y flavour of this pasta dish and you’ve gotta use a sweet apple like Braeburn or Gala to really get the flavours going. It smells great, that’s another pro. But at the end of it, it just isn’t pasta like I know it.
On the brighter side of things, exams are over! They were officially over and done with at half 12 today 
A huge burden off my shoulders for now. This also means I have more time to work on this Sugar Bar. I whoop for joy. A setback though is I won’t be able to bake sweet yummies for a while till after 5 June as the girls and I have agreed to watch our diets and sugar intake, so I’m forbidden to make anything that will compromise our waistlines.
It’s absolute torture but since we’ve agreed, I gotta stick to it. Someone weep for me, please.
Here’s a serving for 1.
Yoghurt & Lemon Pasta with Plum Tomatoes & Apples
Ingredients
- 70g pasta shells
2 medium sized plum tomatoes, sliced
1/4 cup chopped Braeburn apples
1 tbs green chilli, finely chopped
3 tsp plain yoghurt
1 1/2 tbs lemon juice
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp dried rosemary
cracked black pepper, for seasoning
tiniest bit of salt, for seasoning
Cook the pasta till al dente and strain away the water, returning pasta shells to saucepan.
Reduce the heat to its lowest setting, stir into the pasta the yoghurt, juice, herbs, tomatoes, apples and chilli. Give it a good stir and keep it on that low heat for about 10-20seconds just making sure the yoghurt is heated through. Add the seasoning to your desired taste. You don’t want this to be salty as you want to keep the general flavour of the lemon and yoghurt.
You can opt for fresh herbs which will you give you a better blast of flavours. Serve on plate with a lemon slice.
i’ve never had apples in combination with pasta, but it sounds lovely and looks darn tasty!
That looks so delicious. Yay that your exams are over…mine are just beginning lol. I wish I had your willpower for not baking sweet things!
Congrats on finishing your exams! I look forward to a lot more nice recipes like this!
Aw, sorry it didn’t turn out as you had hoped. I wouldn’t necessarily choose creamy pastas, but I can still eat them no problem (I’m a 26 year-old man… Omnivore). Maybe you could’ve gone the aglio olio route or something if you’ve no tomatoes
Congratulations on getting through your exams!
Looks great, it’s too bad you didn’t seem to enjoy it. Oh well, the photos alone made me want to try it!
Wow Diva, you’re really taking that whole “watch what you eat” thing seriously. For healthy food(healthier than my braised pig fat), this really does look delicious. Nice job!
grace: hey! it does look good, didn’t taste too bad. but wasn’t amazing
laura: i think i’m losing the willpower! but for the sake of the girls and for myself i have to keep my word. all the best for your exams my friend
appetiteforchina: thank you thank you! it’s a big relief.
manggy: i was actually going to make pasta aglio e olio but i was intrigued with this recipe! oh well. now i’ve learnt! thanks for stopping by
bobby: let me know if you can make this taste better than i did
marc: yea it’s a damn shame cause there’s so many things i wanna make and eat. after 5 june though. i just need to hang in there till then. lol. thanks again for your encouragement.
xx
You make it look SOO delicious! It surprises me that it wasn’t as good as it looks. Congratulations on the close of the school term! That is great! I hope you enjoy the summer with your friends in a care-free way. Too bad about the diet….. Poor thing.
xoxox Amy
This actually sounds pretty refreshing. Looks beautiful too! I agree that fresh herbs would boost flavors nicely; just remember to double or triple the amount for fresh, because dried is much more concentrated.
That pasta look good and sounds nice and simple!
Never seen or heard anything like this before…I’ll give it to you for trying. It’s a pretty pasta. CONGRATS on exams getting over…YAY YAY YAY…must be quite a feeling of exhilaration! :0)
Really intrigued by the combination of ingredients here…
Hmm combination sounds really interesting… well nothing i have evere heard of… Yiu can may be call it a fusion pasta and gulp it down ur throat…. But for mr.. it looks awesome… so what if its not like the normal pasta…. only great mind think out of the box… u did :P…
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