Whole Wheat Pasta Mushroom White Sauce with Kale
This creation happened accidentally! I started with a basic béchamel sauce (white sauce) and added the vegetables I had in the fridge at the time.
Servings: 6
Cost: $20
Equipment
- Sauce pan
- Fork
- Chopping Board
- Sharp knives
Ingredients
White Sauce
- 1/4 cup butter
- 4 tbsp flour
- 4 cups milk
Pasta
- 1 bag whole wheat pasta or your favourite pasta
- 2 cups mushrooms
- 1 cube frozen basil/olive oil see note below
- 3 leaves kale
Instructions
White Sauce
- Melt butter in a saucepan, stove on medium-high
- Add 1 tbsp of flour at a time, whisking vigorously to combine the flour with the butter before adding the next tbsp of flour. Stove on medium heat
- Once all the flour is incorporated with the butter, let the butter and flour cook for about 2 minutes and continue to whiskAdd 1 cup of milk and whisk the butter into the flour until incorporated.
- This may take 2-3 minutes, turn the stove down or remove pan from the heat for a moment if necessary
- Once the butter is well incorporated, add the rest of the milk.
- Keep the stove on low so that the milk doesn't burn to the bottom of the panStir occasionally until the sauce thickens. It could take about 10-15 minutes
Pasta
- While the white sauce is thickening, chop mushrooms into slices and kale into thin reaps
- Sauté mushrooms for 10 minutes in olive oil (or frozen basil/olive oil cube if you make them)
- When the white sauce has thickened, add in the mushrooms and chopped kale
- Cover the sauce wit a lid for 5 minutes to soften the kale.
- Boil water and cook pasta according to pasta directions
- Add sauce to pasta and stir to mix well
Video
Notes
When our basil plants are ripe with a great harvest in the summer time, we preserve the basil in the freezer. We make a large batch of basil cubes by chopping basil and mixing it with olive oil in frozen in ice cube trays). These keep for several months in our freezer when we don't have an abundance of fresh basil. You can find the directions to make it here https://mountainvalleyrefuge.com/can-you-freeze-basil-to-keep-it-fresh-mhmm-yes/