Vegetable and almond pasta

almond-pasta
I love to make one pot dishes on weekdays. This is a simple and easy dish, loaded with vegetables, easy to make and delicious to eat. Almond pieces give a nice crunch and taste to it.
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Ingredients:
2 cups pasta(fusilli or penne)
1 cup vegetable (bellpepper, zucchini)
1/4 cup tomato
2 cups milk
2 tbl spns all purpose flour
2 tbl spns butter
1 tea spn chopped garlic
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
1/4 cup almonds
Pepper
Salt

Method:
Heat water and cook pasta along with salt according to package instructions.
Heat butter in a wide pan on medium low heat. Add vegetables (do not add tomato), garlic. Fry for 5-6 mins.
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Make a well in the center and add flour. Whisk it, taking care not to butn it and removing all lumps.
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Pour the milk and let it thicken. Add salt and pepper as required.
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Add cooked pasta, tomato.
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Lightly roast the almonds and chop them. Add these to the pasta. Mix well. Add cheese and mix.
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Serve hot.

Serves : 3
Preparation time : 20mins

31 Comments

  1. Beautiful! And guess what? I had pasta today too- the same shape! But your sauce looks better than mine… 🙂

  2. Wow..thats unique one and am surely going to try it out! I hv some colored fusilli idle in pantry! Tks for sharing this n lovely pictorial as well! (I wd b back here by next thu ur special day! 😀 Hugs)

  3. Geetha

    This looks yummy. My daughter likes pasta a lot. I will make this for her.

  4. Wow Shilpa pastas look great, wonderful addition of almonds, thanks for the step by step pictures 🙂

  5. I was crazy about almonds and I posted a few Almond based recipes, now after seeing your creamy pasta with almond I am totally into it…

  6. Sabitha

    Feel like eating straight away from the computer screen! Looks very nice.

  7. Awesome Shilpa!

    Now that I am reacquainting myself with bachlerhood, I need more such one-pot recipes! Will let you know how I manage to bungle this completely!

    PS, met your dad in Kumta, briefly!
    🙂

  8. Naseela

    what a coincidence!!
    my mom prepares it just like that(but without almonds and cheese) and she has prepared it today…….
    will try eating it with almonds

  9. Aruna

    Wow never tried this way with almonds. One question does the milk curdle when tomatoes are added. Never tried adding tomatoes to a white sauce based pasta.

    Shilpa: No. Because by the time you add tomatoes, the sauce would have already thickened.

  10. This is awesome! I have to try this as my daugher loves pasta, and I have a tough time getting her to eat almonds.

  11. Bharathy

    Sounds yummy.
    I did not find the quantity for almonds. Can you please add that to the post?

  12. Mamata

    Hey Shilpa,

    It looks absolute yummmmmmmmm …. will surely try this over the weekend 🙂

  13. jayanthi

    Hmmm… looks yummy! I always love your step by step photos.

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  15. Poornima

    Hey Shilpa,
    Thanks for this recipe. My daughter likes Pasta very much. I was quite bored of preparing with pasta sauce. I prepared this. Everyone at home liked it very much. It is a great recipe.

  16. kalpana

    it looks yummy.i am going to try today

  17. Jyothsna

    Excellent Pasta… simply loved it

  18. Radha Sriram

    I was just looking out for white sauce pasta recipe and i am glad i found the perfect one. I tried it today and turned out to be a delicious one. My daughter was very happy and liked it a lot. i keep track of all ur recipes. Keep up the good work.

  19. Poornima Prabhu

    Hi Shilpa
    am going to try and make pasta for the 1 st time-my ? is does the shape of the pasta matter much?……I have butterfly pasta which my daughter insisted on buying,i can make with this,right?
    Thanx in advance.

  20. Poornima Prabhu

    Hi,
    tried this and came out SUPERB……….thanx a lot,Shilpa.Can u post a Tomato sauce based recipe,too.

  21. Soumya

    Hello there,
    All your recipe look delicious.. Can u please post the recipe of Pasta salad if you have one..I have tasted one from Namdhari’s and always wanted to try one at home, but don’t know the recipe..
    Thanks,

  22. Summer

    Hi Shilpa

    Is there a substitute of “All Purpose Flour” for this recipe as am trying to make a gluten free version of it.

    Thanks!

    P.S. What an amazing job you’re doing with this blog! Love it 🙂

    • Shilpa

      I think you can use any white sauce. May be with white cheddar? (so far I can’t seem to get that sauce right!)

  23. Ritha Hegde

    Just made it, still eating it. Lovely 🙂
    Had used dry italian seasoning and totally missed the cheese, but still tastes lovely. Thank you 🙂

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