Mix-veg Pasta with white Béchamel sauce

About this Recipe...

Béchamel sauce also known as white sauce is made from butter, flour and milk. These three main ingredients and there are some seasoning ingredients make this sauce a truly indulgence.
This sauce is one of the main sauce in Italian cuisine. You can make plenty of dishes with this sauce, but my personal favorites are pasta and lasagna.
So today I made this simple mix vegetable pasta with Béchamel sauce. The steps of making it is so simple that you can enjoy the authentic Italian meal at home. So let's quickly note down the ingredients and give it a try at home. Your family will love this dish...

Ingredients

Cooking Pasta

• Any pasta of your choice
• Water
• Salt
• 1 tsp Olive Oil

Preparing Veggies

• 2-3 cloves of Garlic finely chopped
• 2 Tbsp Chopped Onion
• Mix veggies like broccoli, bellpepper, mushroom cut into slices
• Sweet corn
• Shredded spinach
• Salt as per taste
• 1 tsp Black pepper powder
• 1/2 tsp Dried basil
• 1/4 tsp Italian seasoning
• 1/2 tsp Red chilli flakes

Bechamel Sauce

• 2 Tbsp Salted butter
• 1 Tbsp All purpose flour
• 1/2 Cup Milk
• 1/2 Cup Half and half
• Salt as per taste
• 1 tsp Black pepper powder
• 1/2 tsp Dry thyme
• 2 Tbsp Shredded Cheese

Directions

Cooking pasta

1. Boil water in a pan, add salt and oil. When the water will boil add the pasta of your choice and boil it uncovered as per package instruction timing.
2. When the pasta becomes al dente, drain the water and keep aside.

Preparing Veggies for pasta

1. In a pan take some olive oil, when oil is hot enough add garlic and sauté for a while. Now add the other veggies one by one and fry it till everything becomes crunchy.
2. Now add salt, pepper powder, dry basil, chili flakes, Italian seasoning and mix everything well and switch off the flame.

Béchamel Sauce

1. Now in a another pan heat up butter, when butter will melt add the flour and fry it till the raw smell goes away.
2. Now add the milk slowly and continuously stir it so that no lumps can form.
3. Now add the remaining milk and half and half followed by salt, pepper powder, dried thyme and mix everything and let it comes to a gentle simmer.
4. Now add cheese and stir gently, the sauce becomes thick.
5. Meanwhile you can check the salt in the sauce, if everything is perfect then add the fried veggies and boiled pasta. Give a quick mix gently and your pasta is ready to serve.

Notes:

1. In the Béchamel sauce you can add only milk for less calories or instead of half-n-half, you can add heavy whipping cream also.
2. While serving the pasta you can sprinkle some Parmesan cheese over the pasta.