Vegetable Pasta

Ingredients

1 cup finely chopped and slightly boiled vegetables of choice

(Like mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli, French beans, spinach)

½ cup macaroni, slightly boiled and cooled in cold water

1 cup vegetable stock

3 cups milk

2 tablespoon flour

100 gm grated cheese

3-4 spring onions, finely chopped (white and green parts separate)

1” ginger, finely chopped

2-3 cloves garlic, finely chopped

2 tablespoon finely chopped parsley leaves

½ teaspoon mustard

1 teaspoon chili sauce

1 teaspoon tomato ketchup

½ teaspoon mix herbs (dried)

Salt to taste

2 tablespoon Butter

2 tablespoon fresh cream

1 table spoon olive oil

 Method

White sauce:

Melt butter in a pan

Add flour to it. Stir it for a while

Now gradually add milk and keep stirring it so that no lumps are formed.

Add vegetable stock to it and boil it. Keep stirring.

Mix fresh cream to it, remove from stove and keep it aside.

Pasta:

Now heat the oil in another pan.

Add ginger and garlic to it.

Add the white parts of the spring onions to it and stir it till the onions becomes a little transparent.

Now add the vegetables and the chopped green leaves of the onions to it and stir it.

Add macaroni to it.

Now add mustard, chili sauce, tomato ketchup, mixed herbs, salt and stir well.

Now add about 70 gm grated cheese in it and stir it.

Now add the white sauce to it.

Cook for 4-5 minutes on slow flame and stir it.

Now add chopped parsley leaves and mix well.

Take out all the contents in an ovenproof dish.

Evenly sprinkle the remaining grated cheese over it.

Bake it in a moderately heated oven for about 25-30 minutes

Serve it with garlic bread, French loaf or any other bread of your choice.