Baked Spinach Corn Pasta

This dish is a change from the normal pasta,as this is baked. It has spinach, corn, capsicum and mashed potato. This can be had with garlic bread. A little cheese has been used. White sauce is the base in this dish.

This recipe serves four to five people.

Ingredients	Quantity
Blanched and Chopped Spinach Leaves	2 cups
Boiled Corn	½ cup
Boiled and Mashed Potatoes	from 1 potato spud
Boiled Pasta (Any Shape)	¾ cup
Chopped Onions	½ cup
Capsicum Rings (Different Colors)	6 or 7
Butter	3 tbsps
Oregano (Dried or Fresh)	1 tbsp
White Sauce	1 ½ cups
Pepper Powder	1 ½ tsps
Grated Cheese	4 tbsps
Plain Flour (Maida)	3 tbsps
Milk	1 ½ cups
Salt	to taste

Method to make White Sauce

1. Take a table spoon of butter in a pan and heat it. When the butter melts,add the flour and mix.


2. Fry the flour in the butter till light brown and add the milk.Keep stirring so that no lumps are formed.This mixture becomes thick after some time.


3. Add a pinch of salt and remove from heat.Keep it aside.

Method to make Pasta

1. Take a pan and add the rest of the butter and chopped onions and saute for a minute.


2. Then add mashed potato,chopped spinach,boiled pasta and corn and mix all these.


3. Add salt,oregano,pepper and half of the grated cheese and stir.


4. Add half of the white sauce and mix well.Remove from the heat.


5. Take a buttered baking dish and add the above mixture and spread it evenly.


6. Top it with left over white sauce and grated cheese and place the capsicum rings and bake it in a preheated oven at 250 degrees centigrade till the cheese on the top melts and turns slightly brown.


7. Serve it hot with garlic bread.