How to make white sauce pasta
Ingredients
- 1 cup Any Pasta, I have used penne pasta
- 1 tsp Oil
- 1 tsp Butter
- few Fresh / Frozen green Peas
- 1 small carrot, Finely chopped
- 7-8 Mushrooms, Finely sliced ( optional )
- 1/2 capsicum, Finely chopped
- 1 tsp Salt
To make white sauce
- 1-2 tbsp All purpose flour ( maida ) / Wheat flour
- 1 cup Milk, at room temperature
- 1/2 medium size onion, finely chopped
- 3-5 flakes Garlic, finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp Red Chilli flakes
- 1/2 tsp Pepper powder
- 1/2 tsp Oregano powder
- 1/2 tsp basil powder, Can add fresh basil too
- 1 tsp Butter
- Salt to taste
- grated Parmesan Cheese / any cheese, as required
Instructions
Pre Cook Pasta
- In a large pan take 5-6 cups of water . Add little salt and a tsp of oil . Allow water to boil . When it boils .. add pasta into the boiling water.
- After 10-12 mins .. pasta would have cooked . Check .. take care not to over cook . It should be al dente ( Cooked just enough to retain the shape ) . Drain and retain the stock water . Refresh the cooked pasta with running water . This avoids over cooking of pasta due to the heat .
- Cooked drained pasta is ready . Keep aside
Saute veggies
- Take a pan . Add little butter . Add all the chopped veggies 1-1 to the hot pan ... ie green peas , carrot , capsicum and Mushrooms . You can use choice of your veggies . Add little salt and saute for 3-4 mins till done .
- Don't over cook the veggies .. retain thir color and crunchiness . They taste and look best that way . Once the veggies are done , transfer to a plate and keep aside .
How to make White sauce
- To the same pan add some butter . When its hot , add some finely chopped garlic and onions . Saute till raw smell goes .
- Once garlic - onion are sauted , add all purpose flour ( maida ) / wheat flour . Saute nicely for 4-5 mins till rawness goes .
- Next .. to the sauted flour .. add milk at room temperature . Add slowly and mix well such that no lumps are formed . Bring the milk to boil .
- When its boiling .. simmer and add salt , red chilli flakes , pepper powder and oregano powder . Mix everything well .And allow the sauce to thicken
- When the sauce has thickened .... add grated parmesan cheese .. give a mix . Our white sauce for the pasta is ready . Time to bring everything together .
How to make veggie pasta in White Sauce
- To the ready white sauce ... add the sauted veggies and cooked pasta . Mix and allow pasta to take in flavors . If the sauce has thickened a lot .. add little reserved stock water that we have kept aside . Add stock water as per your required preference of thickness .
- Finally add some fresh / dried basil leaves . Mix everything and switch off .
- Transfer it to the serving plate and garnish with some grated cheese if you want to make it more cheesy . White sauce pasta is ready to serve . Relish white sauce pasta hot .
