Hey Hive!
We're back with more of our home cooking! If you're unfamiliar with this series, it's where I showcase some of the recipes we've been trying at home since we've been cooking a lot nowadays! Also I'm running out of content so yeah gotta make the most of it!
So I've been trying a lot of different recipes lately and since it's been a while since we had pasta, I thought I'd try a pasta one for once! We've always just used store-bought pasta sauce whenever we make spaghetti so we've never really had cream-based pasta at home before and since that's one of Sean's favourites I thought I'd give it a try!
The recipe I was going to be following is this one from Tasty, but with some modifications!
Source: Tasty
Since we only had linguine at home, and we're not really big fans of penne pasta, I wanted to see if this recipe would be good with linguine. And I also wanted to add vegetables since Sean was going to bring some meat home.
So these were the ingredients I used:
- butter
- garlic
- flour
- milk
- frozen veggies (broccoli and cauliflower)
- carrot
- shredded mozzarella
- salt
- pepper
- chili flakes
- mixed herbs
- linguine
- milk
Seasonings:
Milk:
And of course the pasta:
So Step 1: Cut the carrot and boil the vegetables together in a pot. Salt the water.
Step 2: mince the garlic. I put about 5 cloves since we love garlic.
Step 3: once the water is boiled, put the pasta in and let it soften so it can fit in the pot.
Leave it to boil until the vegetables are soft.
Step 4 (not pictured): drain the pasta and vegetables and leave them to sit while we prep the sauce.
Step 5: So in the same pot on medium heat, melt some butter and add the garlic. Stir until the garlic is slightly browned.
Step 6: Add about 2 tablespoons of flour to the garlic and butter, stirring until incorporated. Then add 1 more tablespoon of flour and stir. This part was kinda iffy for me since the garlic just looked like this, but I figured it should turn out okay once I added the milk.
Step 7: Pour in the milk a little bit at a time, stirring well in between, until fully incorporated and sauce begins to thicken.
Now this was where I thought I screwed up because the recipe says to pour in the milk a little bit at a time but I just dumped the whole 2 cups of milk straight in. But after stirring it continuously while it was boiling it turned out okay.
Step 8: Add in the seasonings and cheese to thicken up the sauce and stir well to incorporate.
After a few minutes it was really starting to look like cream pasta sauce!
Step 9: once the sauce thickens, add the pasta and vegetables to the sauce and mix well.
Sean came back home with some turkey from a friend of his who had leftovers so we heated that up to eat with our pasta!
This was the pasta I made!
And topped with the turkey and some bacon bits:
I was actually pretty proud of the pasta because it turned out perfectly! Just the right amount of seasoning (maybe a little more salt for me would be perfect) but it was nicely cooked and the sauce was really legit! It reminded me of the carbonara we would eat in restaurants, just without bacon of course.
The turkey was kinda meh tbh since it was quite dry without any gravy but the pasta sauce made it a little better at least. I was just so happy the pasta turned out great, and Sean really loved it too!
I'm definitely looking forward to trying this recipe again and maybe with my signature chicken chop and baked potatoes? It's been a long time since I made that so this might be the perfect time to cook it.
Just thinking about it is making me hungry now so I'm gonna go have dinner! Thanks so much for reading and hope you enjoyed this recipe!
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Why does this look so delicious! And you have a good set of spices! I wish I had one ๐ Thanks for sharing this recipe! You make pasta cooking look so easy!