Baked Penne Pasta with Beetroot Sauce
Learn how to make baked whole wheat penne pasta with beetroot sauce.
Servings 0
Ingredients
Cooking Pasta
- Pasta 2 cups
- Oil 1 tbsp
- Salt 1 tsp
- Water as required
Beetroot sauce
- Butter 2 tsp
- Beetroot puree ⅓ cup
- Milk ⅛ cup
- Cheese ½ cup
- Italian Seasoning 1 tsp
- Pepper powder 1 tsp
- Red Chilli flakes 1 tsp
- salt as required
Masala
- Cabbage ½ cup
- Mushroom 5 cut into small pieces
- Eggs 2
- Red chilli powder 1 tsp
- Garam masala ½ tsp
- Salt as required
- Oregano 1 tsp
- Garlic powder ½ tsp
- Oil 1 tbsp
Instructions
Cooking Pasta
- Boil water and add pasta, oil, salt and cook for 10-12 minutes.
- Drain the water and keep it ready
Beetroot Sauce
- Pressure cook beetroot for 3 whistles. Grind them in mixie to prepare beetroot puree.
- Heat butter in a pan.
- Add beetroot puree and milk and saute nicely.
- Add cheese and mix till mixture thickens.
- Add salt, 1 tsp Italian seasoning, 1 tsp pepper powder, 1 TSP red chilli flakes and mix.
Making Masala
- Heat oil and add cabbage, mushroom and saute nicely till it soften.
- Now add eggs and scramble them
- Add all the spice powders and mix till everything is combined.
- Cook for few minutes till it is crunchy.
Assembling
- In a baking pan grease with butter
- Add vegetable masala as bottom layer
- On top of it add cooked pasta
- Then add beetroot sauce
- Repeat the same layers till everything is finished.
- Top it with grated cheese and season it with chilli flakes, Italian seasoning and pepper powder.
- Preheat the oven to 225°C for ten minutes
- Bake in same temperature for 12-15 minutes till top layer is browned.
- Serve beetroot sauce paste hot.
Notes
Adjust the seasoning as per your taste
If you are not baking, when masala is ready, add the pasta and beetroot sauce and saute till everything is combined. Top it with cheese and serve hot.