Penne Pasta in Bechamel Sauce | White Sauce Pasta

Penne Pasta in Bechamel Sauce | White Sauce Pasta | Creamy Pasta | Restaurant style White Sauce Pasta | Penne Pasta in White Sauce | Veg Pasta – I love Pasta!!! Especially Penne Pasta. White sauce penne pasta is my kids favorite. Its so creamy. Yum!!! Whenever we go out on vacation, I feel this is the safest food, I can give to my kid. It is freshly prepared and very filling. This is the restaurant style Penne Pasta in White Sauce. One of the recipe which our Chef Pearl Jude F, the recipe author, learnt to cook during her training days at Restaurant.

The key to the creamy, silky, smooth texture of White sauce Penne Pasta is the Roux. This is mixture is prepared by mixing butter with flour in equal parts. Roux is then combined with milk and this sauce is called Bechamel Sauce. A very famous Italian cuisine is what we will prepare. We love this Pasta and we are sure when you prepare this Homemade Veg Pasta, you will no more go to a Restaurant for White sauce Penne pasta or Bechamel Sauce Pasta.

What does Pasta go well with

Pasta is usually combined with different sauces with different consistency. White sauce is very commonly used in preparing Pasta. There are different varieties of Pasta too.

Variations to White Sauce Pasta

Method of preparing White Sauce can vary. There are many White Sauce pasta recipes in the Internet. To the below recipe, you can add your favorite veggies. I would recommend to include Mushrooms too, if you like them. It tastes good and add a flavor in the dish. We will very soon come up with more sauce and more types of Pasta variations too. Also, this is a Veg Pasta. You can add Chicken too.

If you are looking for more on Vegetarian recipes, please check our Veg Recipes section. For more Non vegetarian options, please refer our Non Veg Recipes section.

Nutrition Facts

Home cooked food is filled with Nutrition. If you are keen on knowing the nutrition that goes in your body with every food you consume, we have picked some facts for you. Source is Wikipedia.

When cooked, plain pasta is composed of 62% water, 31% carbohydrates (26%), 6% protein, and 1% fat. A 100 gram portion of unenriched cooked pasta provides 160 Calories and a moderate level of manganese(15% of the Daily Value), but few other micronutrients.

Pasta has a lower glycemic index than many other staple foods in Western culture, like bread, potatoes, and rice.

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Penne Pasta in White Sauce or Bechamel Sauce

White sauce Pasta is a delicious creamy Bechamel sauce which is tossed with Penne Pasta, veggies and some flavorful ingredients. 

Prep Time15 mins

Cook Time30 mins

Total Time45 mins

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: Italian

Servings: 5

Author: Pearl Jude F

Ingredients

For Boiling Penne Pasta

• 1 Bowl Penne Pasta
• 3 Cups Water for boiling
• Salt as per taste

Cooking Veggies of your choice

• 1 tbsp Butter for frying
• 1 Onion chopped
• 1 Carrot Cubed
• 1 Capsicum Cubed
• 1/4 Cup Peas
• 1/4 Cup Corn

For White Sauce

• 3/4 ltr Milk
• 1 big Onion cubed
• 4 Cloves
• 3 Cardamom
• 6 Pepper Corns
• 1 big Bay leaf
• Salt as per taste

For Roux

• 2 tbsp Butter
• 2 tbsp Plain flour (Maida)

For Tossing Pasta

• 1 1/2 tbsp Oregano seasoning
• 5 Basil leaves
• 1 tsp Pepper Powder
• Parsley for garnish
• Or Chilli Flakes for garnish
• Or Oregano for garnish

Instructions

How to Prepare Penne Pasta in Bechamel Sauce or White Sauce Pasta

To Cook Pasta

• Bring water to a boil.
  
• Add Penne Pasta into the boiling water.
  
• Add Salt into it. Optional - you can add few drops of Oil too
  
• After the Pasta is cooked - Drain off all the water from Pasta and keep aside
  

For Veggies of your choice

• Heat another pan and add butter into a Pan.
  
• Add finely chopped Onions and fry them for some time.
  
• Add Capsicum into the Pan
• Add Peas into the Pan.
  
• Now add corn, carrot into the Pan.
  
• Add some salt into the Pan.
  
• Fry veggies until 3/4th cooked on medium flame and turn off the flame
  

To Prepare White sauce base or Bechamel Sauce

• Add Milk in a Pan and switch on the flame
• Add big sized Onion cubes, cloves, cardamoms and pepper corns into the milk.
  
• Add Salt into the Milk and bring it to boil to induce flavor into it.
  
• When the flavor is nicely induced in the milk, remove all the ingredients added in the milk.
  
• Now add Penne Pasta into the flavored milk.
  
• Now add all the 3/4th cooked veggies into the Milk.
  
• Add Salt if required into it.
  
• Add oregano into the Milk.
  
• Add pepper powder into it and Stir.
  

For Roux preparation

• Now take a new pan on the other side and add butter and let it melt.
  
• Now add equal quantity of Maida or plain flour into the pan and combine it well with the spatula to make it into a smooth paste and cook for 1-2 mins for the flour smell to be gone. This smooth paste is called roux.
  

Now back to the White sauce mixture

• Now add the roux into Pasta and keep stirring until the roux dissolves into the pasta.
  
• When sauce thickens add basil leaves and turn off the fire. 
  
• Garnish with Parsley or Chilli flakes or Oregano
• Pasta in Bechamel Sauce is now ready to serve.
  

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Step by step Directions for Penne Pasta in Bechamel Sauce

To Cook Penne Pasta – Follow the below Instructions

For Veggies of your choice

To Prepare White sauce base or Bechamel Sauce

For Roux preparation