Spinach with Pasta
Pasta made with spinach..can be used as a side dish or main course with garlic
Recipe by Pooja Srivastava of Edison, US
Ingredients
vegetarian
2 servings
- 1 cup Corkscrew pasta
- 1 bunch Spinach (cut the end part, keep only the leaves)
- 1 cup milk
- 2 tbsp Butter
- 1 tbsp Maida
- Salt to taste
- Pepper powder to taste
- 4 Garlic pods (crushed)
- 2 green chillies (chopped finely)
- 1 tbsp Virgin Olive Oil
Directions
- Take water in a saucepan, add some salt and boil pasta in it till done.
- Drain pasta and keep aside. Do not throw away the water in which it is cooked.
- Wash the spinach leaves and chop them roughly.
- Take olive oil in a pan, add green chillis and garlic to it.
- When garlic gets cooked, add the spinach and cook.
- Add salt and little pepper powder to this.
- Cook till spinach gets done (it will reduce completely in quantity)
- Remove from pan. In same pan, add butter. Add maida.
- Keep striing slowly on low flame to remove the rawness of maida.
- Slowly add cold milk, stirring continuosly. Bring to a boil.This makes the white sauce.
- Add cooked pasta to the white sauce.
- Add a little water (which was used to cook pasta) if the mixture is too thick.
- To this mixture add the spinach.
- Check for salt/pepper.
- Serve hot with garlic bread.
Note: You can also add cheese instead of white sauce. I avoid adding cheese due to health reasons. White sauce is a good substitute for similar taste.