Baked vegetables with Garlic Bread

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Serves: 4

Ingredients:
  1. Half Cauliflower
  2. Peas - 3/4 cup
  3. Carrots - 2 or 3 - sliced
  4. Medium onion - chopped
  5. 8-10 cloves of garlic - chopped
  6. Pasta macaroni (the tube one)
  7. Cheese - grated (4 cheese, cheddar, pepper jack etc)
  8. Full cream - 1/3 cup
  9. Cinnamon - 2 sticks
  10. Cloves - 4-5
  11. Ginger - about an inch - grated
  12. Butter
  13. Salt

Method:
  1. Boil water, add a spoon of olive oil, a spoon of salt and add macaroni to it till it is cooked
  2. Steam peas, cauliflower florets, carrots in a pressure cooker so that they are soft and well cooked
  3. In a grinder, grind cloves, cinnamon, ginger with a little bit of water. Take the mixture and add a little bit of warm water to it and keep soaked
  4. In a pan, sauté the onions and garlic till reddish
  5. Add the steamed vegetables to it, and keep cooking till the whole mixture comes together
  6. Add cream and salt per taste, and keep cooking till the mixture starts to boil and explode
  7. Through a sieve, press the ground mixture into the pan so that the flavors mix with the vegetable mixture. Stir and cover
  8. Preheat an oven to 350F. Butter the pan to bake in
  9. Now create layers with macaroni, vegetables, cheese on top of each other. You can pinch in salt in between layers if necessary
  10. Create 3 such layers at least
  11. Bake for 20 mins.
  12. Mix in butter and chopped garlic, and spread on bread slices with cheese and bake alongside with 
  13. Top with crushed chili peppers and enjoy your meal


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