How to make White sauce pasta with vegetables
White sauce pasta with vegetables is really a rich and creamy dish which makes you full for the whole day. If you are looking for a recipe with pasta, with loads of veggies, creamy, cheesy and tasty, then this is the right dish for you.
Servings: 3
Calories: 400kcal
Ingredients
Ingredients To cook pasta
- Macroni pasta - 200 gms you can also use other variety of pasta
- water - enough water to cook
- salt - as required
- oil - 1 tbsp
Ingredients to prepare white sauce
- Butter - 1 to 2 tbsp room temperature
- All purpose flour/maida - 2 tbsp
- Milk - 1 cup
Other ingredients
- Butter - 1/2 tbsp
- Olive oil - 2 tbsp
- garlic clvoes - 4 chopped finely
- onion - 1 small size chopped finely
- carrot - 2 tbsp
- sweet corn - 1 tbsp
- different colored bell peppers / capsicum - 1/4 cup each
- frozen green peas - 2 to 3 tbsp *check notes
- chilli flakes - 1 tsp
- salt - as needed
- pepper powder - 1/4 to 1/2 tsp
- mixed italian herbs - little
- oregano - little
- basil - little
- mozzarella cheese - 1/2 cup
- chilli flakes - little to sprinkle before serving
- Milk - 1/4 cup add only if needed
Instructions
Cooking the pasta
- In a big pan, add enough water to cook pasta and add salt as required and oil.
- To this add macroni pasta and cook until 90% only. Do not over cook as it may become soggy and break when added to the white sauce. You can also use any variety of pasta for this.
- Once it is 90% cooked, filter water completely and keep aside.
Prepare the white sauce
- In another pan, add butter and allow to melt completely.
- Make the flame low, and add the all purpose flour / maida to this. Mix it thoroughly in butter. It gets thickened.
- Once it gets thickened, add the milk and start to stir it continuously, so that no lumps are formed.
- You can see that, the mixture gets thickened nicely. This is our white sauce. Keep it aside.
Cook the veggies
- Now we need to cook the vegetables. For this, in another vessel, add butter and olive oil.
- Add the finely chopped garlic and fry it in medium flame for a minute.
- Include the finely chopped onion and saute it nicely till it becomes translucent.
- Further, include the finely chopped carrots and sweet corns. Carrot and corns are added first, as it may take time to cook.
- Once the carrot and sweet corn are cooked 50%, add the bell peppers. Try to add different colors of bell peppers, as it looks colorful and attract the kids.
- Now I have added the frozen peas.
- Check if the veggies are mostly cooked. Now add the chilli flakes, required salt, italian herbs like oregano and mixed herbs and basil. Mix well and cook for 2 to 3 min in low flame.
- Include the prepared white sauce now. keep the flame low and cook it.
- Mixture starts to thicken again. If the mixture becomes too thick, add 1/4 cup of milk. Now add the cooked pasta and mix well.
- Add the mozzarella cheese and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes or until the cheese melts completely.
- So cheesy, tasty, creamy pasta is ready to be served.
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Notes
check the below notes