Veggie Feast Pasta + Cheese
This veggie pasta feast is a real treat! Made with tiny star-shaped pasta + green veg in a cheese sauce, it's bound to get a gold-star review!
Your little one will love our deeelicious recipe for veggie feast mac n cheese.
Recipe from our The First Foods Book
Serves
4Prep
15Cook
15
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Ingredients
- 75g/21/2oz dried stelline (star) pasta
- 75g/21/2oz cauliflower, finely grated
- 1 small courgette, grated
- 1 small leek, trimmed, cleaned and very finely chopped
- For the cheese sauce:
- 15g/1/2 oz unsalted butter
- 2 teaspoons plain flour
- 250ml/9fl oz whole milk or milk of choice, warmed, plus extra if needed
- 1/2 teaspoon English mustard
- 50g/13/4oz Cheddar Cheese, grated
Method
- Cook the pasta in a saucepan or boiling water according to the packet of instructions until tender, adding the cauliflower, courgette and leek 3 minutes before the end of the cooking time. Drain, reserving the cooking water.
- Meanwhile, make the cheese sauce. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over a low heat ,add the flour + cook, stirring continuously, and cook for 6-8 minutes until the sauce has thickened. Gradually pour in the milk, stirring continuously and cook for 6-8 minutes until the sauce has thickened. Remove from the heat+ stir in the mustard + the cheese. Keep stirring until the cheese has melted.
- Tip the cooked pasta + vegetables into the sauce, stir and add 2 tablespoons of the reserved cooking water if necessary.
- Using the back of a fork, mash the pasta mixture to a coarse purée, adding a little reserved cooking water if necessary..Alternatively, chop it finely.
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You could try grated carrot, shredded spinach or sweetcorn instead of courgette + peas - the veggie possibilities are endless!
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