white sauce pasta recipe (Italian)

•  Using lots of processed cheese in white sauce, you can make Pasta Alfredo.
• Adding heavy cream with white sauce make Creamy white sauce pasta.
• Mix white sauce with grated parmesan  and grated Gruyere cheese to make Mornay sauce pasta.
• Add some boiled chicken to make white sauce chicken pasta.
•  Adding exotic vegetables , you can make White sauce vegetable pasta.

 Steps to make the recipe 

First take a non stick pan and melt butter in low flame heat. Add flour and stir continuously for 1 minute till the flour smell goes off.


Don't over cook or brown the flour mixture, keep it white in color.  Remove the flour mixture from the pan and keep aside in bowl to cool down. This mixture is called Roux.


Next make studded onion using bay leaf and cloves. This will make the sauce more flavourful. Make it like as shown in below picture.

Take a pod and heat milk with the studded onion . When the milk start to boil , switch off the flame.


Add the above prepared Roux into the milk slowly and stir continuously with a whisk till a smooth  paste is formed. Don't let to form any lumps in the milk.


Strain the sauce using a conical strainer and keep aside in a container or bowl. Add some crush nutmeg powder in the sauce.


Top the sauce with some melted  butter .This is called butter bath. It will restrict to form layer on the top of the sauce.

 

Take a medium large pot,add water and little salt. Bring it to boil. When the water start to boil, add the pasta and cook for 6-7 minutes till it get cooked. I have taken penne pasta for this recipe, you can use any other variety of pasta like speghetti or macaroni.


Stain the pasta using a strainer and quickly cool  down under running water. Otherwise the cooking process of the pasta will continue and our pasta will become soggy.  Mix 1/2 teaspoon of cooking oil with the pastas to prevent them getting stuck with each other.

Making pasta  

Now heat olive oil in a non stick pan and saute garlic till light brown. Add vegetables if using and saute for one minute.


Add the prepared white sauce according to your need and saute for one more minute. Add the boiled pasta. Further saute it for 1/2 a minute.


Add salt , black pepper powder and oregano to the pasta. Check the seasoning, if required add more to the pasta.



Remove the pasta in a plate and garnish with black olive and basil leave. Topped the pasta with grated parmesan cheese and sprinkle some fresh chopped parsley. 

You can add carrot , french beans and green peas to make pasta more healthy.

Cut the vegetables into small pieces .But I prefer a diamond shaped vegetables in pasta as they look beautiful with penne pasta. Boil water in a pod and blanch them with little salt. Don't over cook the vegetables either they will become meshy while cooking with pasta. You can tossed these boiled vegetables in olive oil with salt , pepper and herbs for some extra flavour.

Take a pan, heat olive oil and saute garlic till raw smell goes off. Add the vegetables and saute for one minute.

Add the prepared  white sauce and mix. Cook them for one more minute. Then add black pepper powder, herbs like oregano and salt. And cooked them in slow flame. Add the boiled penne pasta in the sauce. Further cook for a minute.



If the white sauce become dry, add little milk .Remove in a plate and garnish with chopped parsley and grated Parmesan cheese.
Serve white sauce vegetable pasta  with a garlic bread .

4. Chicken White sauce pasta 

 You can make your pasta a complete full meal by adding boneless chicken pieces to it. Chicken can add more protein and nutritions to your pasta for a complete diet.

 To make white sauce chicken pasta, you need to boil chicken pieces.You can either use a leg boneless or chicken breast.

Cut the chicken breast into small cubes and boil them in water, adding small pinch of salt.


After sauteing the garlic, add the chicken pieces and saute for one more minute.
Add the prepared white sauce and pasta and cook for one more minute. Add salt, pepper and oregano and cook further.
Remove and serve hot with a garlic bread.

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White sauce pasta

•  1 cup Penne pasta ( or any pasta )
•  4 cup water to boil pasta
•  1/4 teaspoon salt

•  100 gm butter
•  100 gm all purpose flour (Maida)
•  1000 ml milk
•  1 medium size onion
•  3 - 4  cloves
•  1 - 2 Bay leaves.
•  Small pinch of Nut meg powder

•  1/3 teaspoon oregano
•  1/4 teaspoon black pepper powder crushed
•  1/2 teaspoon chopped garlic
•  1/3 teaspoon olive oil
• Salt as per taste.

•  1/3 teaspoon chopped parsley
•  1/2 teaspoon grated Parmesan cheese
•  1 black olive
•  1 Basil leaves

1. Take a medium large pot and boil 4 cup water with a small pinch of salt.
2. When the water start to boil add the  pasta and cook for 6 - 7 minutes. It should be in al dente texture.
3. Stain the pasta and quickly cool down under running water. Mix 1/2 teaspoon oil with them to prevent getting stick to each other.

   Making white sauce

1. To make a standard white sauce or bechamel sauce take butter, flour and milk in 1 : 1 : 10 ratio.
2. Heat a pan and melt 100 gm butter in slow flame. Add 100 gm flour and stir  continuously for 1 minute. Don't over cook or brown the flour. Keep it in white color.
3. Remove it from the pan and let cool down. This mixture is called Roux.
4. Make studded onion by piercing the cloves with bay leafs as shown below.
5. Now heat 1 litre milk in a pod with the studded onion.n
6. When the milk start to boil switch off  the gas flame.
7. Now add the prepared Roux into the  milk slowly and stir continuously with a whisk. Don't let to form any lump.
8. Stain the sauce in a container and add the crushed Nut meg. Topped the sauce with melted butter to prevent to form any layer on the top of the sauce.

   Making pasta in white sauce

1. Heat olive oil in a non stick pan and saute the chopped garlic till light  brown.
2. If using vegetables then add them and saute for 1 minute.
3. Now add white sauce according to your needs and cook for 1 minute. Then add the boiled pasta and mix nicely with the sauce.
4. Add salt, crush black pepper powder and oregano and stir the pasta for a minute.
5. Remove the pasta in a serving plate and garnish with black olive and basil leaves.
6. Topped the pasta with grated Parmesan cheese and sprinkle some chopped parsley.e
7. Serve  penne in white sauce pasta with  a garlic bread.

• Calories :- 339
• Fats :- 10 gm 
• Protein :- 16 gm
• Carbohydrate : 44 g

•  White sauce Pasta can be served with garlic bread. You can also take french fries with pasta.
• Some leafy green vegetable salad with pasta make a perfect meal.

•  After boiling the pasta, it is important to cool them down immediately to restrict further cooking.
•  If you want to make a creamy white sauce pasta then add fresh cream after adding the pasta.
•  Don't use more then one herbs, oregano is good for a veg white sauce pasta recipe.
•  Thyme is generally used in a non vegetarian pasta dishes with red sauce.
• You can store the white sauce for 2-3 days in a fridge for later use .
• You can skip to use the studded onion while making the white sauce. But to get the authentic Italian taste, it is necessary. 
• In an authentic Italian white sauce pasta recipe, there is no use of chilly flakes in white sauce pasta.
• So it depends upon you to use it or not, after all we are preparing a white creamy pasta.

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