Pasta in White Sauce

Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine and Pasta in White Sauce is very delicious, filling and easy to prepare. In this delightful recipe, cooked pasta is enrobed in a freshly made white sauce which can be serve as a main course. So lets begin to learn with "Flavors of Sneha's Kitchen".




Ingredients:

Penne Pasta in White Sauce

Penne Pasta - 125 grams
2-3 tbsp of olive oil
2-3 cloves of garlic finely chopped
1 small onion finely chopped
2 green chilli chopped
Half red capsicum cut in slices
1/2 tbsp pepper powder
1-2 tbsp dried oregano/mixed herb
1-2 fresh basil

For White Sauce:

2 tbsp of butter
2 tbsp of cornflour/all purpose flour
1 1/2 cup of milk (boiled and cooled)
3-4 tbsp of grated cheese (mozzarella or parmesan or even amul cheese cubes)
Salt and pepper powder to taste

Method:

• Add pasta in boiling water along with 1/2 tbsp of salt and 1/2 tbsp of oil.
• Cook pasta till al dente (should be soft but firm). Strain the water and then rinse the pasta in ice cold water so as to stop the cooking process.
• In a heavy bottom pan heat up rest of the olive oil.
• Add the chopped garlic, onion and green chilli. fry till onion gets translucent.
• Add the sliced capsicum. stir for a minute.
• Add pepper powder, fresh basil and oregano.
• Add some salt and chopped tomato.
• Cook till tomatoes gets soft.
• Now add the cooked pasta and give it a good toss.
• Pour the white sauce and mix well.
• Garnish with cilantro

White Sauce:

• In a pan add butter and flour.
• Add salt and little bit of oil so that the butter does not burn. keep stirring for a minute or so.
• Add milk and keep stirring for few minutes.
• Add the pepper and grated cheese.
• cook till cheese melts.

Note: In this recipe you can use any pasta of your choice instead of penne pasta. Though, I have just used red capsicum but you can also add different color of bell peppers, broccoli, zucchini, mushroms, paneer and american corn.