White Sauce Penne Pasta recipe.
The cheesy saucy pasta is something we can’t get over it, Boiled Penne pasta cooked in a creamy white sauce and loaded with lots of cheese which just melts in the mouth.Pasta has to be always served hot right from the pan to plate, though it’s an Italian cuisine but we being Indian and the taste buds will always ask for more, Check out the mouth-watering Indo-Italian white sauce pasta recipe with the step by step procedure.
Equipment
- Sauce Pan
- Strainer
- bottom vessel
- whisker
Ingredients
- 500 ml Milk Boiled
- 3 tbsp Maida All Purpose Flour
- 3 tbsp Butter
- ½ Cup Cheese Grated
- ½ Cup Sweet Corns
- Assorted Bell peppers May add Brocolli & Beans instead
- 250 grms Penne Pasta
- 2 tbsp Garlic Chopped
- 1 tbsp Red Chilly Flakes
- 1 tsp Italian Seasoning
- ½ tbsp Black Pepper Powder
- ¼ Cup Finely diced Carrots
Instructions
- Ingredients
- Take a bottom vessels and boil around 1.5 litres of water, Water should be 5 times of the pasta quantity
- Keep it on a high flame and add some salt around 1 tsp
- Now add 1 tbsp Oil to the water, this is avoid stickiness and extra starch in pasta
- Once the water starts boiling, Add pasta to the boiling water
- Stir it well to the pasta to avoid sticking to each other or bottom of the vessel
- Let it boil on a high flame for 2-3 mins, Do not over cook the pasta as it will get mushy, Keep string in between and cook for 2-3 mins
- After 3 mins the pasta seems to be cooked, Check the pasta if its almost done (do not overcook) about 80-0% done then we can turn off the flame. If you can cut it easily with the knife then its cooked
- Turn off the flame and immediately drain it over a strainer
- After removing it on a strainer, immediately pour room temperature water over it to stop cooking or sticking to each other
- Now Heat a Saucepan or a kadhai, Pour over 2 tbsp of Oil
- Add around 1 tbsp of Chopped Garlic once the oil is hot
- Fry the chopped garlic on high flame, do not burn, Stir continuously
- Then add the finely diced carrot, Stir it on a high flame for 30-45 secs
- Once the carrots are fried then we can add sweetcorn and fry it well too on a high flame only stirring it continuously
- The reason we are frying them separately is due to different cooking capacities.Now after frying sweet corns for 30 – 45 secs on high flame we will add the bell peppers
- The veggies are half cooked now and we can remove them off the flame
- Take another sauce pan to make white sauce for the pasta, keep it on the low flame only and in the sauce pan add 3 tbsp of butter
- Once the butter is melted add chopped garlic and fry it once, Make sure you keep it on low flame.
- Now use a whisker as we add all purpose flour in portion to the saucepan
- Keep stirring continuously with a whisker, with the help of whisker we can avoid lump formation in the sauce
- Now pour in milk in parts, Not all together in portions only and whisk it well to avoid lumps
- Once the sauce is ready add red chilly flakes, Italian seasoning and black pepper powder to the sauce
- Mix it well with the sauce and get it to a boil, and add salt as required
- Once it starts boiling well add half portion of cheese in the sauce
- Mix it continually until the cheese melts completely in the sauce
- Now add all the fried veggies to the sauce and give it a good mix
- Add little water to get a smooth consistency if the sauce is getting too thick
- Once the sauce starts boiling, it’s time to add the boiled pasta
- Mix it really well along with the sauce
- Add some water in the sauce get too thick to get the right consistencyNow add it with some red chilly flakes
- Spread some cheese generously over the pasta
- Mix it well And it’s time to serve it hot!! With some more cheese
Video
Notes
- Cook Pasta only for 2-3 minutes on high flame, Do not overcook and pour water over the pasta once immediately after straining it
- While preparing sauce keep the gas stove on a very low flame, and keep continuously stirring the sauce to avoid lumps specially while adding flour and milk.
- Use processed cheese in the sauce and not mozzarella cheese.