Easy Broccoli Pasta in white sauce

As we all know Broccoli is one of the popular vegetable in the whole world used in salads or consumed raw which is nutritious. It has plenty benefits to offer for mankind. You may prepare this as a  a cold dish or hot. I will post another cold salad recipe with pasta and broccoli.

This Recipe needs to items, one cooked pasta and white sauce. There are plenty of videos available on preparing white sauce. You can follow this as well by Vah Chef. I will share my experience and tips here.

For Pasta:

1. Fusilli (Spiral Kind)
2. Broccoli Florets - small
3. Carrot finely sliced - 1
4. Capsicum chopped - of your choice
5. Garlic finely sliced or chopped as preferred - 4 pods
6. Olive oil 
7. Salt, pepper, oregano or other available pasta seasoning
8. Chopped parsely / Spring onion (optional)

For White Sauce:

All you need is butter, warm milk and maida. Butter and Maida should be of equal quantity with milk being 10 times of butter. I usually take some more milk as the sauce thickens quickly. You may add seasoning as desired like pepper, salt etc.

Preparation:

1. Boil a large pot of water with salt in it, add broccoli florets to it cook for 2 - 3 min max. Do not over cook the florets should be crunchy without losing lot of nutrients.
2. Take off the florets and finely chop them
3. In the same water boil the pasta stirring intermittently, it would take 5 - 7 minutes for the pasta to cook depending on the brand and the quality
4. Strain the pasta and sprinkle little olive oil to prevent it from sticking. Keep aside

Making Sauce:

1. Milk should not be boiling hot, you may heat milk and turn the heat off once it reaches the boiling point
2. In a sauce pan Heat the butter and add maida , keep the flame to the lowest. Keep stirring the mixure till it gets cooked and the nice aroma arises
3. Add the milk little by little and keep stirring, to prevent lump formation
4. Increase the flame, keep mixing the sauce would come to a boil shortly 
5. At this time add salt & pepper, switch off the flame.

Note: The sauce would thicken if we keep it for long, I always add lot of milk and have the sauce liquid like consistency, so it would be correct when we add to pasta.

You may serve pasta with vegetables with hot sauce on top, or do the following.

In a large wok, heat 1 spoon of olive oil. Toss the garlic saute for a minute, all vegetables and stir for 30 second add pasta and mix well. Add all the seasonings too, after that pour the sauce and turn of heat. Mix well and serve immediately.