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vegetable pasta bake
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i tried making a vegetable pasta bake but the sauce didn't turn out how it should.
This is what i did.
boil fusilli and quickly fry the vegetables (tomatoes, onion, brocolli, mushrooms)
place drained pasta into a dish
add a little stock and tomato puree to veg.
add grated low fat cheese and stirred in until melted
mixed with pasta and baked for about 20 minutes.
But the sauce was really watery, what can i do to make a nice, thick tomatoey cheesey sauce?
This is what i did.
boil fusilli and quickly fry the vegetables (tomatoes, onion, brocolli, mushrooms)
place drained pasta into a dish
add a little stock and tomato puree to veg.
add grated low fat cheese and stirred in until melted
mixed with pasta and baked for about 20 minutes.
But the sauce was really watery, what can i do to make a nice, thick tomatoey cheesey sauce?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Either Don't cook the pasta - it's hard to tell you how much stock to put in doing it your way, or i cook the veg lightly, cook and drain the pasta well, make a roux based sauce, flour fat and perhaps milk, add herbs/garlic/cheese so it's quite thick, add pasta and veg, stir and sprinkle with a crushed packet of plain crisps mixed with some breadcrumbs and grated cheese for a lovely crispy top
As others have said...you need to make a roux, and make a proper cream sauce - and add your cheese to that. Also-use full fat cheese. The way you did it,the fat free cheese broke down....and you ended up with a watery sauce.
This should help you with the basics-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A515332
This should help you with the basics-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A515332