Vegetarian Pasta Recipes – Broccoli Pasta Bake
Ingredients:
2 tbsp – Olive oil
2 tbsp – Butter
100 gms – Pasta
500 gms – Broccoli chopped
1 No – Onion chopped
2 No – Garlic clove finely chopped
5 No – Bread slices (day old crust removed)
1 1/2 cup – Cheddar/ parmesan cheese grated
4 tbsp – Flour
4 cup – Milk
1/2 cup – Basil
50 gms – Butter melted
Method:
Cook pasta and keep aside.
Steam broccoli until tender.
Heat oil in a pan and add onion and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened.
Add broccoli and mix well. Take it off the heat.
In another pan melt butter belnd in flour and cook stirring constantly.
Take off the heat and whisk in milk. And again re-heat.
Stir constantly until the mix begins to boil and thickens.
Remove from heat and add the basil and add 1 cup cheese.
Add broccoli, pasta and mix thoroughly.
Spoon the mix in a greased oven proof dish.
Cut bread slices into cubes and toss them in melted butter. Then scatter over the broccoli mix.
Sprinkle remaining cheese and bake until crisp golden.
You may choose to replace broccoli with cauliflower.