When there are only two persons having a meal at home, cooking pasta is one of the best options available as pasta is not only delicious but very little work is involved in cooking - just boiling the pasta, cutting the vegetables and cooking in one pan. One of the easiest pasta meal is the White Sauce Pasta, the sauce made from butter, flour and milk. One can add any meat for protein. Vegetables used are usually broccoli, carrots and capsicum.
Ingredients:
- 150 g spiral pasta (for 2 persons)
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- 1 piece of chicken breast
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- 8 pieces of white round mushrooms, sliced
- 1/4 cup of cut carrots
- 1/2 cup of cut broccoli florets
- 1/4 cup of cut yellow capsicum
- 1/4 cup of cut red capsicum
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 cup milk
- salt to taste
- 1/4 tsp black pepper powder
- 1/2 tsp red chili flakes
Method:
- Boil pasta according to instructions on the packaging. Drain and set aside.
- Season the chicken breast with salt and pepper.
- Add cooking oil into a non-stick pan and pan-fry the chicken breast till golden brown.
- Once the chicken breast is cooked, remove it from the pan and let it cool down.
- Shred the chicken breast and set aside.
- Add 1 tbsp of butter into the same pan.
- Saute the garlic.
- Add the mushrooms and fry till brown.
- Add the carrots, broccoli, yellow and red capsicum. Stir-fry them for a short time. Dish them up.
- Add the remaining butter into the pan. When it has bubbled and turned brownish, add in the flour, stirring to prevent clumps.
- Add in the milk. Keep on stirring till the sauce slightly thickens.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Add the pasta into the sauce, stirring to ensure all the pasta is coated with the sauce.
- Add the cooked chicken breast, mushrooms, carrot, broccoli and yellow and red capsicum.
- Mix them up well with the pasta.
- Dish out to serve.