White Sauce Pasta

Ingredients:

• 2 cups pipe regate pasta
• 1 small carrot, peeled and chopped fine
• ½ green bell pepper, carrot & onions. All vegetables to be chopped fine
• ½ tablespoon butter

For white sauce

• 1½ tablespoons butter
• 1 tablespoon maida
• 1¼ cup milk (prefrably boiled and cooled)
• 1 teaspoon pepper powder & salt
• ¼ teaspoon dried oregano
• ½ teaspoon red dried chilli flakes
• 2 teaspoon red pasta sauce (for a tangy taste, as per the requirement)

The process:

• Take a vessel and fill it half with water. Add pasta with a drop of oil. Boil it till it becomes soft. Once the pasta is softened, drain and reserve it. Set aside the boiled pasta.
• In a pan add 1/2 teaspoon butter. Add the chopped vegetables and saute for few minutes. .
• For white sauce, take a pan and add milk. Heat it little.
• In a small bowl add white flour and water, whisk it and make it thick. (Make sure there are no lumps in it)
• Now in milk pan, add the white flour mixture and keep whisking on low flame
• The mixture will start to thicken. Now add chilli flakes, pepper powder and salt
• Add the sauteed vegetables and boiled pasta and mix well.

Serve pasta hot by grated cheese and oregano on top!

Boiled pasta

White sauce

Sauteed vegetable

With red sauce

The Patsa