Macaroni in white and tomato sauce

Ingredients:

Macaroni          -2 ½ cups cook in salted boiling water till it is 2/3 cooked, drain and keep aside

Butter (or ghee)            - 2tbsps

Refined flour     -3 tbsps

Milk     -1/2 litre

Amul cheese slices        - 3

Tomatoes         - 5 big grated

Onion   - 1 big sliced

Garlic   - 7, 8 flakes

Potato  - 1 big peeled and cubed

Carrots - 3 peeled and cubed

Beans   - stringed and cut         - 1 cup

Cauliflowerettes            - 1 ½ cups

Tomato ketchup           - 1 cup

Oil        - 2 tbsps

Salt      -

Sugar

Basil

Oregano           -

Pepper powder

Method:

White (cheese) sauce

Heat butter in a pan on fire, add refined flour slowly, and keep whisking. When it turns light brown and gives out aroma, lower the flame, pour milk slowly and keep whisking. When it is cooked, add one cheese slice broken into pieces slowly, whisking all the while. Add pepper powder and salt (can add a little sugar also), remove from fire.

Tomato sauce with vegetables

I prefer to pre-boil the vegetables. What I do is, first I cut the cauliflower (it needs the least time to cook), boil water in a pan with some salt, add the cauliflower. Switch off the flame and after 2 minutes, drain and keep the cooked cauliflower aside, Heat the same salted water again (by this time I will cut the beans) on the flame, when it boils, add the cut beans. Cover and cook for a minute, switch off the flame, after 2 minutes, drain and remove the beans. In the same salted water, I will cook the carrots and potato cubes for 6 minutes and drain. This water can then be taken as a delicious soup J

Heat oil in a pan, add finely chopped garlic, stir for a while, add the grated tomatoes, tomato ketchup, salt, basil, oregano, pepper powder, all the cooked vegetables (if you have not pre boiled them, you have to keep it on low fire till they are cooked), stir for a while and remove from fire.

For layering:

Oil a baking dish, arrange cooked macaroni at the bottom, spread tomato sauce with vegetables, spread onion slices, pour white sauce over it. Now again start with macaroni, tomato sauce with vegetables, onion slices, and after the last layer of white sauce, spread the two cheese slices broken into small pieces on the top and bake at 200 degree Celsius for ½ hour.