Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Béchamel Chicken Pasta



Ingredients: 
Red Sauce

  1. Chicken 280 gr
  2. Adequate water
  3. Short type of pasta (can be rotini, macaroni, or manicotti) 500 gr  
  4. Olive oil 2 or 3 drops 
  5. Adequate salt 
  6. Any vegetables (onion, pumpkin, paprika, broccoli, corn, ext.)
  7. Adequate vegetable oil
  8. Tomato sauce


White Sauce


  1. All purpose flour 3 spoons
  2. Milk +-300 gr (it may vary, depend on the amount of the chicken broth. The milk is a little bit more than the chicken broth)
  3. Butter 1 spoon
  4. Cornstarch 2 tsp
  5. Shredded cheese or mozzarella 


Instructions:
Stage 1: Making the red sauce

  1. Boil chicken with the water. The chicken must sink under the water level. Boil it until tender (around 20 - 40 minutes).
  2. Boil the pasta with a little salt and 2 or 3 drops of olive oil (to avoid the pasta stick each other) for 8 minutes.
  3. Cut all the vegetables in cube.                           
  4. Fry the red sauce (tomato sauce and all vegetables) in a small fire and add some broth (the water from the boiled chicken). Add salt and taste it when it boiled.   
  5. Drain the pasta and add it into the red sauce little by little and keep stir it until all blend.
Stage 2: Making the white sauce

  1. Melt the butter on the small fire, add the flour, stir until the color is a little bit pink then add milk and salt.
  2. Add the chicken broth and keep stir.
  3. Dissolve the cornstarch+water in a cup then pour it into the white sauce.
  4. Taste it. Add salt if you think it is not enough. Add more cornstarch if the sauce is still too watery. 

Stage 3 :
  1. Pre-heat the oven 190 degrees Celcius around 15 minutes
  2. Seal the tray with butter and pour the pasta+red sauce into it. Then, flatten the surface 
  3. Add the white sauce on the pasta+red sauce                                       
  4. Bake it until the surface a little bit hard, take from the oven and add the cheese on it and bake it again                                                                                                      
  5. Bake for 20 - 30 minutes until the color turn to gold brown                       
  6. Cut it and enjoy it ^_^



Note:
  1. The amount of every ingredient is might vary, depend on your preference. 
  2. Taste it in every step.





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