Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baked bechamel pasta. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baked Bechamel Pasta is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Baked Bechamel Pasta is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baked bechamel pasta using 24 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Baked Bechamel Pasta:
- Take For mince:
- Make ready 2 1/2 cups Beef/Chicken Mince
- Make ready 1 cup chopped onion
- Get 4 garlic cloves
- Prepare 4 tbs oil (i used sunflower oil)
- Take 1 cup chopped tomato
- Prepare 1 tbs garam masala
- Make ready 1 tsp red chilli powder
- Take 1 tsp turmeric powder
- Get 1 tbs cumin powder
- Prepare 1 chicken stock (if using stock, don't add salt until required)
- Take 4 tbs tomato paste (packet/tin)
- Get For pasta:
- Take 6 cups pasta (you can also use spaghetti)
- Make ready Salt (as per requirement)
- Get 1 tsp oil
- Make ready Water for boil
- Prepare For Bechamel sauce:
- Prepare 1 full packet of bechamel powder (i used knorr brand)
- Prepare 6 cups full cream milk
- Prepare 2 tsp Crushed pepper corns
- Make ready Salt (if required)
- Take Mozzarella cheese for topping
- Get Oregano to sprinkle on top
Steps to make Baked Bechamel Pasta:
- Take a pot and add water. Let it heat for few minutes. When you see the water almost starts boiling, add the cups pasta and then add salt and oil. Keep checking the pasta to avoid over boil.
- For Mince: After setting the pasta to boil on one side, take another pot and add oil, add onions and saute till onion becomes transparent and then add chopped garlic (4 cloves) and tomatoes.
- Let it cook for sometime and once you see tomatoes release water and is getting cooked, add mince (Beef/Chicken) and cook till mince changes its colour.
- Lower the flame and add chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and cumin powder. Mix well.
- Add chicken stock or salt. Make sure you check the saltiness and then adjust it as per requirement. Close the lid and cook for 8 mins.
- Add tomato paste and black pepper. Mix well and let it cook for another 6 - 7 mins.
- For Bechamel sauce: Once pasta is boiled and mince mixture is made. The last step is to make the Bechamel sauce.
- Take a pot and add milk. Let the milk turn warm and add the Bechamel powder and usually there will be pieces of powder collected and i would prefer you to take wooden spoon to mix the milk and Bechamel powder. If you have whisk, that would be amazing option instead of wooden spoon.
- Keep mixing the milk and Bechamel powder and in between add pepper corns powder. If required add salt.
- Keep mixing the sauce and slowly as the sauce heats up the thicker it gets. Once done, off the flame.
- Now for making the proper Bechamel pasta, take wide glass bowl (Make sure its safe to put in oven) or a baking tray.
- Firstly spread 4 tbs of Bechamel sauce on the glass bowl or tray.
- Then add half pasta on the top of sauce which was mentioned in above step. And add half of the Bechamel sauce on top of pasta.
- Then add full mince mixture on top of half pasta.
- Later add the rest pasta on top of mice mixture. And add the rest Bechamel sauce.
- Lastly, add mozzarella cheese on top as per preference. And sprinkle oregano on top of mozzarella chesse.
- Put in the oven for 120 degree for 25 mins (in some ovens temperature varies, so be careful). Add check every 15 mins to make sure the mozzarella cheese doesn't completely burn. Once the cheese turns golden brown, Remove it from over and let it cool a little. And serve.
So that is going to wrap it up with this exceptional food baked bechamel pasta recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I’m sure that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page in your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!