White Sauce Penne Pasta

Pasta is one of my favorite dish! This creamy White Sauce Penne Pasta is so yummy, kids will love it. It has cooked pasta and veggies covered in cream, milk, butter and cheese. Doesn’t this sound tasty & healthy!?

Making pasta is quite time consuming! But it’s worth it! Its taste will motivate you to do it every time!!The taste stays in your tongue! What are you waiting for!? Read the recipe and start cooking! It’s Pasta Time!!!Lemme know your comments. Happy Cooking! Cheers!

Ingredients:

Penne Pasta – 2 cups

Carrot – 1

Broccoli – 10 florets

Cauli flower – 10 florets

Mushroom – 3 nos

French Beans – 3 nos

Baby corn – 3 nos

Sweet corn – 2 tbsp

Capsicum – 1 (green/red/yellow)

Boiled Milk – 1 cup

Fresh Cream – ¼ - ½ cup

Water – ½ - 1 cup

Maida – 1 tbsp

Butter – 2 tbsp

Pepper  - 1 tbsp

Red chilli flakes – 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. In a large pan boil excess of water along with salt and one spoon of oil. Add pasta to the boiling water. In 9 – 10 minutes pasta will be cooked. Do not close the pan while cooking pasta. Once cooked immediately drain the excess water, otherwise it be getting cooked in that hot water. 

Cooked Pasta

2. Cut veggies to eatable size. If all 3 colors of capsicum is available use all 3.Do not steam cook capsicum. Steam cook in an idli pan / steam cook the veggie the way you usually do.

3.Meanwhile heat a pan and melt 1 tbsp of butter, add maida and roast it, once roasted add a cup of milk little by little so that big clumps are not formed. Keep stirring continuously. An egg beater can be used to break the clumps. The milk turn thick and start bubbling. Add pepper, chilli flakes and salt.

4. At this stage add the cream, next add the ½ cup of water. If its too thick add another ½ cup and let it boil. When it bubbles out switch off the range. The Creamy white sauce is ready!

5. By now your vegetables will be cooked.Heat another pan and melt some butter and add chopped garlic to it. Once the raw smell of garlic goes add capsicum and then the veggies and gently turn around so that all the veggies are coated with butter. Switch off the range.

6. Now the pasta, veggies and sauce is ready. When the people are ready at the table take a flat bottomed pan preferably, If not available you can take a kadai / any available pan and heat it add some sauce some pasta and some veggeis, lavishly sprinkle mozzarella cheese and gently turn around. Wait for the cheese to melt. When done, garnish with Italian Seasoning and serve hot. (Italian Seasoning is avaible in all supermarkets!)