White Sauce Shell Pasta || White Sauce pasta - it is very creamy, cheesy, aromatic and melt in mouth pasta recipe which is loaded with veggies. Sauce that is filled in shell pasta just burst in our mouth, you just cannot stop eating it. Many people think that preparing restaurant style Mexican recipes, Chinese recipes and other food recipes are very difficult to prepare at home. So they skip preparing at home and just order from outside. Trust me it is very very easy to prepare those restaurant style recipes at home. Coming to our recipe, pasta is one of favorite food to kids, yes I am coming to your point not only kids everyone love's it 😍😍. This is the best way to make your kids to have veggies, as we can add veggies like carrot, capsicum, sweet corn, mushrooms, broccoli. This is perfect as starter in kids parties, they will just love and love to have it 💓. Do not blame that this pasta contains butter and loaded with cheese 😬, I personally feel it's okay to have all these on cheat days. Eat well in correct portions and do workouts💪, and let your kids enjoy all the taste. The main point is always use good quality pasta, today I used durum wheat semolina pasta and did not used any maida to prepare sauce. So do not worry just enjoy this creamy and cheesy pasta with your friends and family.
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Foodie Monday Blog Hop
Taking this creamy and delicious white sauce pasta to FoodieMondayBloghop fb groups #276Kid'sTreat theme. By this time you are all aware that I am part of this lovely group where we bloggers share recipe for theme suggested by a person in alphabetical order every week. This week theme is suggested by one of favorite bloggers "Swaty Mailk" who blogs at "FoodTrails25". Check out her space for delectable and innovative recipes. You can learn many UP's regional recipes and also many fusion, baking recipes from different regions. Her photography and way of presentation inspires me a lot. Bookmarked her sev puri, Palak panner fried rice, Ragi chocolate cookies recipes to try soon.. Preparation time - 15 minutes
Cook Time - 20 minutes
Main ingredients : shell pasta
Author : Aruna SarasChandra
Ingredients
To cook pasta
shell pasta - 1 cup( I used durum wheat semolina pasta)
oil - 1 tsp
salt - 1 tsp
water - 4 cups(adjust)
To saute veggies
You can use veggies of your choice which I mentioned early, here I am using
onion - 1
capsicum - 1/2
carrot -1 small or 1/2 large
sweet corn - 1/4 cup
finely chopped garlic - 2 tsp
olive oil - 1 to 2 tsp ( you can use normal vegetable oil)
pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
To prepare white sauce
butter - 3 tsp
whole wheat flour - 3 tsp
milk -2 cups(adjust)
pepper powder - 1 tsp
red chilli flakes - 1 tsp
mixed herb - 1&1/2 tsp
grated cheese - 1/2 cup (adjust according to ur taste)
salt as per taste
Instructions(will share step by step pics soon)
1) Boil 4 cups of water by adding 1 tsp of oil and 1 tsp of salt.
2)When water starts boiling add shell pasta(you can use any shape pasta) and mix everything well.
3) When pasta cooks 90% switch off flames and drain water completely and keep it aside. Do not throw pasta boiled water, we can use it in preparing sauce.
4) Now saute veggies, for this add 1 tsp of olive oil in a pan(you can use vegetable oil too) add finely chopped garlic and fry well till it starts changes color.
5) Now add all the veggies, 1/2 tsp of salt and mix it well. Add 1/2 tsp of pepper powder and fry it well, do not over cook veggies. Just fry till its raw smell goes away, you can skip adding pepper powder here. Veggies absorb that strong aroma of pepper if you add it while frying veggies.
6) Keep fried veggies aside and prepare white sauce. For this add 3 tsp of butter when it melts add 3 tsp of whole wheat flour(you can use maida instead of wheat flour) and mix everything well till it starts changing color.
7) Now add milk little by little and mix well till you get thick sauce. Make sure that there is no lumps in sauce, If sauce is too thick use pasta cooked water.
8) Now add grated cheese and mix everything well, our white sauce is ready now.
9) Now add salt, red chilli flakes, mixed herbs, pepper powder and mix everything well.
10) Now add fried veggies and boiled shell pasta in sauce and mix everything well. Cook it on low flames for 3 to 4 min
11) If you feel sauce is very thick you can add some more pasta boiled water.
12) That's it our pasta is ready to serve.
How to serve white sauce pasta?
Spread one layer of prepared white sauce pasta on plate now add grated cheese then again spread remaining hot white sauce pasta. Sprinkle some red chilli flakes, pepper powder and some mixed herbs. That's it our White pasta is ready to serve, serve it hot and enjoy with your friends and family.
Tips
** Use good brand wheat pasta, to make it more healthy.
** Instead of olive oil you can use normal vegetable oil.
** Use equal portions of butter and whole wheat flour..
** If your okay with maida you can replace whole wheat flour with maida.
** Do not overcook pasta, boil 90% . After boiling 5 min check pasta by cutting if you see white color then switch off the flames.
** As I used wheat flour we did not get white color to sauce.
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