Penne Pasta with Red and White Sauce

If you have unexpected guests and you don't know what to cook, surprise them with a great pasta dish. Here is a hassle-free and extremely delicious pasta recipe that calls for a variety of flavourful ingredients that blend beautifully in red and white sauce and tastes delicious.

 

PREP TIME	COOK TIME	TOTAL TIME
40mins	10mins	50mins

Serves:-  4-5

INGREDIENTS:-

• Penne Pasta  - 300 gms
• Broccoli ( You can use other vegetables too)
• Oil-  2 tbsp
• Salt- to taste 
• Red Chilli Flakes - as per your requirement
• Oregano - as per your requirement
• Black pepper- 2 tsp

For white sauce:-

• Maida -  1 tbsp full
• Milk- 1 cup
• Butter- 1 tbsp
• Salt - for taste
• Sugar - one pinch
• Cheese -  one cube  

 For tomato sauce:-

• Tomato Puree -  made out of 6 tomatoes
• Garlic -  5-6 cloves finely chopped
• Onion - 1 if big, 2 if small
• Tomato ketchup- 1 tbsp 
• Salt- For taste

METHOD:-

• Take a pan and fill enough water, add oil and salt to the water and bring it to boil.

• Add the penne pasta to the boiling water. Pasta should be added only after water boils or else it will break.

• Boil the pasta for 10-15 mins till its cooked and then drain all the water.
• Side by side take water in a pan and add broccoli and boil them.

White Sauce Preparation:-

• Heat butter in a pan, when it starts to melt add maida.

• Whisk it well. Now add milk and keep stirring.
• Keep stirring until the mixture becomes slightly thick and creamy.

• Keep stirring to avoid lumps. 
• Add little salt and a pinch of sugar and grate the cheese.
• Cook the it till you see small holes in the sauce. When you achieve this, it means the maida is cooked.

• Once that is done take it off the pan and whisk it well.

Red Sauce Preparation:-

• Take 6 tomatoes and boil it.

• Remove the skin and blend it with little tomato ketchup and make a puree.

• Take oil in a pan and heat it
• Add chopped garlic to the oil and saute it.

• Then put chopped onions and saute it till it turns transparent.

• After that add tomato puree and salt.
• Add the white sauce made to this red sauce and boil it.

• Add oregano, red chilli flakes and black pepper and mix it well.

• Add the boiled broccoli to the sauce and mix it.

• Add the penne pasta and garnish it with cheese.

•  And your pasta is ready to be served. You can serve it with garlic bread and enjoy it .