Sweet potato pasta
Pasta is one of the
dishes that both my kids will eat. My older one is usually not too keen on
vegetables unless it is from a very small list of his favourites. I find pasta
dishes an easy way to get the vegetables in. I make sauces using different
vegetables so that when blended, he does not quite know what vegetable it is.
This dish can be made using most root vegetables. I use sweet potatoes as it is one of five a day veggies and rather hard to get it into them otherwise and some
days I also add carrots. As long as you can decide what colour what the sauce
would be, choose vegetables accordingly. Here is the recipe
Boiled pasta, enough for two
1 medium sized sweet
potato, cubed
1 carrot, cut into
chunks
1 onion, cubed
3 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon butter
1 heaped teaspoon all
purpose flour
1 cup milk
Oregano to season
Salt to season
Cooking oil
Heat some oil and add
the onions and garlic
Add the carrots and
sweet potato and sauté for couple of minutes. Add enough water and cook the
vegetables covered until soft
Allow it to cool and
blend to smooth paste
To make the white
sauce, heat a heavy bottomed pan and add the butter. Once melted, add the flour
and keep stirring and do so until the flour gets a sandy consistency
Add milk and keep
stirring until sauce consistency is reached (it will turn shiny)
Add blended vegetables,
salt and oregano and then add the pasta. Allow to boil very briefly and serve!
Notes:
1. 1. Make
sure you do not brown the flour while making white sauce as you will end up
making brown sauce
2. 2. If
you do not keep stirring the milk, it will form lumps and you do not want that
