Rotini pasta with White sauce.

My little one loves pasta, I guess she takes after me. Fettucini Alfredo is one of my favorites. I make pasta once a week for dinner. Its a quick and easy week night dinner. When buying pasta I usually get the whole wheat or whole grain ones. Pasta dishes with sauce are usually high on calorie count. Using a whole grain pasta is one way to make it a little healthy I guess. I used Whole grain Rotini in this recipe. I made a White (Bechamel) sauce to toss the pasta in. This was the first time I made white sauce and it came out well. Here is the recipe.

Cooking time:30 min

Serves:2

Ingredients:

• 1 pound Whole Grain Rotini / Any pasta of your choice.
• 1 tbsp salt.

For sauce:

• 2 cups milk.
• 2 tbsp butter.
• 3 tsp All purpose flour/ Maida.
• 1/2 tbsp grated nutmeg powder.
• 1/4  tsp salt.
• 2 tbsp grated parmesan cheese.

Method:

• Boil water in a deep bottomed sauce pan with 1 tbsp salt.

• When it comes to boil (when bubbles raise) add pasta and cook until Al Dente.
• Al Dente means that pasta should have a bite but still cooked through.
• Once cooked drain the pasta thoroughly.
• Reserve some pasta water for the sauce
• Do not over cook the pasta, it will turn mushy and make the dish flavorless.

• Keep the Ingredients for the sauce at hand.
• In a sauce pan add butter .
• Add flour to the butter and saute till it changes color and become sandy consistency (Usually known as making a Rue), do this in a low flame.

• Now add the cold milk (boiled) and keep stirring to avoid any lumps.

• After 5-7 minutes the mixture will thicken up into sauce like consistency.
• If sauce is too thick add the reserved pasta water.
• Now add Parmesan cheese and Grated Nutmeg .
• Now add the cooked rotini pasta to this and toss .

• Serve hot it in pasta bowl with Grated Parmesan Cheese and black pepper.   

Note:

• Dont cook the pasta with pressure cooker .unless you know the correct time and water to cook them with
• The sauce should be hot otherwise you feel you are eating some rice flour over pasta.
• If you are not worried about fat content add more cheese that gives fantastic flovor to pasta.

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