White sauce pasta

DIRECTIONS

Step 1: Cook the pasta:

1. Boil water in a deep pot.
2. Add 3tbsp of oil and salt and stir it well.
3. Add Dry pasta to the boiling pot, boil until they are cooked and drain the water.
4. Rinse the cooked pasta with cold water and add few drops oil and spread it (it helps pasta not sticking to each other)

Step 2: Sauce preparation:

1. Take a pan, melt the butter and add garlic and fry until the raw smell is gone.
2. Add 2tbsp of all purpose flour and whisk it.
3. Add fresh cream and whisk and combine all together.
4. Add milk when the cream thickens
5. Add salt, pepper and the seasonings for taste.

Step 3: Combine all together:

1. Add the mushrooms and broccoli and stir until the vegetables are half cooked.
2. Add the pasta to the sauce combined with vegetables.
3. Final step!! Add cheese and mix them together and add extra cheese and close the pan with a lid for about 2 minutes.
4. Serve it hot!! and enjoy.

RECIPE HISTORY

White Sauce Pasta, also known as pasta in béchamel sauce, has its roots in French cuisine. The base of this dish is the classic Béchamel sauce, one of the five "mother sauces" of French cooking. Overtime, it was adopted into Italian cuisine and is now enjoyed worldwide with all sorts of personal twists—creamy, cheesy, herbed, and sometimes even spiced!

Now here’s my little pasta story.

I still remember my school days where my friends would bring fancy lunches like white sauce pasta, noodles and when I open my lunch box excitedly it would always be this exciting south Indian dishes such as sambhar rice, lemon rice. While I absolutely appreciated home-cooked meals, there was something about pasta that felt exciting and different.

A few years later, when I began cooking for myself, I finally decided to give it a try. I didn’t follow any strict recipe—I just trusted my instincts and used ingredients that were easily available at home.

To my surprise it turned out well for the first try, overtime I started making it often for fulfilling my cravings, I slowly started making it better and I realized that I unknowingly I have mastered and created a recipe of my own style of white sauce pasta, — one that I love, and more importantly my friends and family too!!

This recipe has become special to me not just because of its taste, but because of the way it represents a full-circle moment—from craving something as a child to creating it confidently in my own kitchen. Today, I’m genuinely excited to share it with you. I hope it brings as much joy to your table as it continues to bring to mine.

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