Pink Sauce Pasta

 

I made Pink sauce pasta. Here I used drum wheat pasta. And this recipe is my way of making pasta.

Pink sauce is nothing but a combination of white sauce and red sauce.

Kindly click the below link for the white sauce and red sauce recipes.

https://supriyalakshminarayanan.blogspot.com/2023/03/white-sauce-red-sauce.html

It's always advisable to follow the cooking time for pasta as mentioned in the pasta packet you buy. Because each pack will have a different cooking time.  

Ingredients:

         1.     Pasta – 2 cups

2.     Capsicum – 1 cup (steamed)

3.     Garlic – 1tbsp (finely chopped)

4.     Butter – 1tbsp

5.     Cheese – 3 cubes

6.     Pepper powder- ½ tsp

7.     Mixed Italian herb – ¼ tsp

8.     White sauce- ¼ cup

9.     Red sauce – ¼ cup

10.  Salt to taste

11.  Oil.

To Cook Pasta:

1.   In a kadai / pot add 7 cups of water and allow to boil well.

2.   Once water is boiled add salt, ½ tsp oil and mix.

3.   Now add 2 cups of pasta and cook as per time mentioned in the packet.

4.   Once the pasta is cooked drain the water and add normal water to the cooked pasta to stop further cooking.

Now pasta is cooked.

To Make Pink sauce pasta:

1.     Heat a kadai and add 1 tbsp of butter.

2.     Once the butter melts add 1 tbsp of finely chopped garlic and saute for 1-2 minutes.

3.     Now add steamed capsicum and saute for 30 secs.

4.     Then add ¼ cup of white sauce and red sauce then saute and mix well.

5.     This is called pink sauce.

6.     Now to this add ½ tsp pepper and ¼ tsp mixed herb then saute and mix well.

7.     At this stage check for the salt and adjust the salt to your taste.

8.     To this add 2 cups of cooked pasta and mix well. Ensure that the sauce gets evenly coated in the entire pasta.  

9.     Finally add 3 cheese cubes and keep mixing until the cheese gets melted completely

10.  Ensure the cheese is mixed well with the pasta mixture. And then turn off the stove.

Now rich and creamy pink sauce pasta is ready.

Note:

1.     Here I used drum wheat pasta. But you can use any pasta of your choice.

2.     The ratio of white & red sauce can be adjusted based on your need.

3.     If you want your pasta to be little watery you just add little hot water to your pink sauce and adjust the texture.

4.     As all the ingredients we add in this recipe are precooked adding hot water will not change the taste of the sauce.

5.     Here while cooking pasta, white and red sauce we add salt and cook. So before adding salt ensure to check the salt.

6.     Just remember while adding pepper and cheese you should be careful in adding the salt quantity.

7.     Here I just add capsicum. You can add broccoli, carrot and mushroom. Just steam all the veggies and add them along with the pasta.