Italian style garlic white sauce pasta recipe step by step with pictures, it’s an Italian recipe where boiled penne pasta will be cooked in a delicious creamy sauce, and that will be basically prepared with butter, a little flour, cold milk and little spice like pepper and nutmeg powder.

Italian food is incomplete without herbs so to get the authentic taste of Italian pasta, oregano, basil or parsley are must used ingredients. My version of this pasta is a veg pasta recipe, where garlic has been used in a different way to make it more scrumptious. That’s why I describe as a garlic white sauce pasta recipe

Though garlic doesn’t have much use in authentic Italian pasta recipe, because of its overpowering nature, only it’s used for mild flavor. That’s why, here I’ve used a little amount of finely chopped garlic to enhance its taste. However, I retain the same taste as Italian cuisine does.

This white pasta is very popular among kids, as even it can be a very good tiffin idea for kids in school. Not only kids, we elders who love Italian food, also have immense love towards pasta. So a quick dinner with this pasta can be a great treat for all pasta lovers.

For making this italian style garlic white sauce pasta recipe, I’ve used durum wheat penne pasta. You can also use whole wheat penne pasta from any brand for making this pasta recipe. Only you have to be more careful while boiling the pasta in water. Because pasta from different brand won’t take the same time to perfectly get boiled. As for me, it takes about 10 mins to perfectly boil. But don’t be afraid of, I’ll share my trick to get the problem solved and easily you’ll be able to prepare this pasta recipe.

And my trick in this recipe is when water starts boiling then only put the pasta in water and cook it till 4-5 mins on high flame. After 5 mins keep checking it’s perfectly boiled or not by removing one pasta and try to cut it with a spoon or fork. When you can cut it easily that indicates the pasta is perfectly boiled. Once it perfectly boiled removed from the heat and strain the water immediately to prevent it from overcooking.

I’ve used three herbs here, to get the exact taste like an Italian pasta recipe. Those herbs are commonly used in Italian cuisine i.e, parsley, oregano, and basil. And I’ve prepared a seasoning with these three main Italian herbs along with little garlic. And that is the top secret of today’s recipe. To know, how did I prepare this seasoning, you have to go through my italian style garlic white sauce pasta recipe described below.

Do you know the making of Italian creamy white sauce? They use cold milk or the milk straight from the refrigerator to prevent forming lumps. Yes, hot milk or milk at room temperature can create the lump in your creamy white sauce recipe. In Italian cuisine, three ingredients are must used, i.e, cold milk, nutmeg powder, and white pepper as I told first.

Ingredients of white sauce pasta

How to boil pasta

• 1 cup penne pasta
• 1/2 tsp olive oil(any oil)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3 cups of water

For making creamy white sauce recipe

• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 1/2 tbsp maida or all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cup milk
• 1/8 tsp nutmeg powder
• 1/2 tsp crushed white pepper
• 1/2 tsp salt(as per taste)

For making the Seasoning

• 1 tsp garlic(finely chopped)
• 1/2 tsp parsley(finely chopped if fresh)
• 1/2 tsp oregano
• 1/2 tsp basil
• 1/2 tsp butter

For garnishing the pasta:

• 3 tbsp parmesan cheese(grated)
• 3-4 black olives(cut into slice)
• 1/2 tsp chili flakes