White sauce pasta (Maida free) | How to make pasta in white sauce | White Sauce Pasta Recipe
Try this White Sauce Pasta without using maida/all purpose flour (maida free) Recipe with oats. With its silky smooth and easy to make sauce, It's a definite way to delight your taste buds.
Servings 3
Ingredients
For boiling pasta
- Macaroni- 1/2 cup
- Salt- 1 tbsp
- Water- for boiling the macaroni
To saute vegetables
- Butter- 2 tablespoon
- Onions finely chopped - 1/4 cup
- Mix bell peppers- 1/2 cup
- Sweet corn- 1/4 cup
For making white sauce
- Butter- 2 tablespoons
- Oats powder - 2 tablespoons
- Milk - 1 cup
- Salt- to taste
- Processed cheese grated - 3/4 cup or more
- Cream cheese - 1 small pack
- Oregano - 1teaspoon
- Red chilli flakes- 1 teaspoon
- Black pepper powder- 1 teaspoon
- Mixed herbs seasoning- 1 tbsp
- Fresh Basil/Tulsi leaves- 3-4
- Tomato ketchup - 1tsp
Instructions
For cooking pasta
- Take water in a deep bottom pan and place it on stove on high flame. Once it starts boiling add salt, give it a good stir and add macaroni to it.
- On a medium flame, let it boil for about 8-10 minutes. The macaroni should be boiled until al-dente (cooked but not very soft). Strain the macaroni in a colander and separate it with fork with light strokes, to avoid them from sticking.
To saute vegetables
- Meanwhile, melt the butter in a pan on a low flame and add onion to it. Sprinkle a generous pinch of salt and sauté it for 2-3 minutes then add the mix bell peppers.
- On a high flame sauté bell peppers for few minutes then add the boiled corn kernels and cook it for a minute. Do not overcook, it shouldn’t loose it’s colour and texture . Once sautéed vegetables are ready, keep it aside.
To make white sauce
- Heat butter in a large pan on a low flame . Once it starts melting add oats powder and stir it continuously for around 2 minutes.
- Cook it until it's fragrant, but doesn't changes its color and immediately add milk. Keep stirring continuously with whisk to avoid lump formation.
- Now add salt to taste, black pepper powder, chilli flakes, mixed herbs and grated processed cheese. Stir the mixture and let cheese melt completely in the white sauce. Add cream cheese. In the last add tomato ketchup.
- The cheesy white sauce is ready!
- To this sauce, add the sautéed vegetables, basil leaves and boiled macaroni and mix it well. Cook it for 2-3 minutes.
- Creamy cheesy White Sauce Pasta (maida free) is now ready to serve. Serve it hot and garnish with basil leaves.
Notes
You may use any type of pasta, here I have used macroni. It can be Penne, Fettuccine, Rigatoni, Linguine, Orzo, Fusilli, or Bow tie/ Farfalle.
Always add macroni to boiling water.
I never add oil once pasta is cooked as oil coats the pasta and that deters it to coat sauce you wish to add into.
Always use whisk to make sauce as it prevents the formation of lumps.
If you find the sauce is thick then add some more milk to it.
Never discard the pasta water, I always use this into making gravies.
You can use cheese slices instead of grated cheese. Moreover you may increase or decrease the amount of cheese as per your preference.