Baked fusilli with cheesy onion and carrot sauce

Serves 4
40 minutes
Difficulty Easy
10 Ingredients

This is a great way to hide veggies if your little ones are not too keen to eat them!

Ingredients (serves 4)

250g Fusilli (spiral pasta)
1 Medium size Brown onion sliced
1 Large Carrot grated
1 TBSP Plain flour
2 TBSP Olive oil
2 Cups Soy milk
1 Cup grated cheese (tasty or any stringy type)
finely grated nutmeg
2 cubes Preserved ginger thinly sliced
2 tsp seasalt

Method

Pre-heat oven at 200C degrees. Cook pasta in large pot according to instructions on the pasta packet. Drain and keep aside. Saute onion and carrot with 1 TBSP of olive oil and a pinch of salt. Add to pasta and combine evenly.
In a small saucepan, add flour to 1 TBSP olive oil, when the flour turn slightly brown, add milk a little at a time, whisk till you have a smooth sauce without lumps, add salt and nutmeg, half a cup of cheese. Mix well. Turn off heat.
Add cheese sauce to pasta, transfer to a large baking dish, spread the remaining cheese to cover pasta, dot sliced ginger over. Bake in centre rack of oven for 20 minutes or till golden. Serve with salad.

Notes

A fairly simple recipe. If you prefer to use the traditional tomato pasta sauce instead of cheesy sauce, go right ahead, it will taste just as delicious as this one. The preserved ginger adds a twist to the dish, and it will warm your heart on a chilly night too.

28 Comments
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- - mom112023 said
  - 19 Apr 2017
    12:09 am
Thanks for the recipe. I will replace the soy milk with normal milk. Just don’t like soy milk.

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- - mom160421 said
  - 17 Sep 2016
    8:17 pm
I’ll be trying this tomorrow for lunch. Thanks for the recipe.

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- - mom93821 said
  - 05 Jun 2016
    4:42 pm
A lovely cheese dish – many thanks.

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- - Shelley O'Connor said
  - 25 May 2016
    9:53 am
Nice vegetarian meal, would be nice with a bit of chicken added I think
- Missey Grace replied
  
  25 May 2016 , 9:57 pm
  Of course you can. The idea of this recipe is to encourage the kids to eat more veggies.
  Please add more ingredients to suit you and your kids’ taste.
  - mom93821 replied
    
    26 Dec 2018 , 5:00 pm
    
    Yep – agree! I add chicken and other ingredients to pasta meals.
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- - mom160421 said
  - 01 May 2016
    2:44 pm
What a great way to hide vegetables. Well done.

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- - curlytops said
  - 18 Apr 2016
    10:40 am
Sounds lovely with the ginger in it.

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- - mom60271 said
  - 17 Apr 2016
    8:48 pm
Absolutely love simple vegetarian recipes! I’ll defiantly be trying this one out. Thank you MOM.

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- - shelley shelley said
  - 17 Apr 2016
    8:21 am
Cheesy carrot mmmm that is different.. Looks so yummy too!!

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- - Bela said
  - 16 Apr 2016
    8:33 pm
*drool*
I’m such a carbohydrate junkie. This looks wonderful. I would definitely eat too much of it in one sitting though.
- Missey Grace replied
  
  16 Apr 2016 , 9:27 pm
  LOL. I think you are not the only one who does that.
  If that’s your concern, just make quarter of the amount in this recipe so you have no worries in eating the whole portion that’s just right for one person.
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- - mom19782016 said
  - 16 Apr 2016
    2:34 pm
MMMM, this looks lovely and perfect for when the nights cool down.

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- - mom62624 said
  - 15 Apr 2016
    5:41 am
This baked dish is ingenious with great simplicity; the combination of ingredients, delicious!.
- Missey Grace replied
  
  15 Apr 2016 , 9:08 pm
  Thanks, mom
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- - rachelvk said
  - 14 Apr 2016
    10:00 pm
Yum, looks delicious! Would definitely be a family favourite!

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- - jodiev1980 said
  - 14 Apr 2016
    5:42 pm
Yum! This would be great for meatless Mondays

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- - mom112217 said
  - 14 Apr 2016
    2:42 pm
Lovely pasta recipe,a new one that looks delicious! Thanks.

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- - Nas01 said
  - 14 Apr 2016
    1:32 pm
Great easy recipe. Thanks for sharing.

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- - sharna_booth_weinrowski said
  - 14 Apr 2016
    12:04 pm
oh my god! Yum!

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- - serotonin said
  - 14 Apr 2016
    9:29 am
This looks amazing! Love finding yummy non-meat recipes. Thanks for sharing!
- Missey Grace replied
  
  14 Apr 2016 , 7:57 pm
  I’m so glad to hear that, I’m a vegetarian and all my recipes are non-meat. Stay tuned, there will be more to come!
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- - mum4107 said
  - 14 Apr 2016
    5:52 am
What a great recipe. Sounds delicious

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- - mom93821 said
  - 13 Apr 2016
    6:47 pm
Thanks for your recipe. I like to add lots of mixed veggies to my pasta bake, it always looks colourful.
- Missey Grace replied
  
  13 Apr 2016 , 8:44 pm
  So very true, and the kinds don’t mind eating the veggies mixed in with pasta, whilst given to them separately it’s another story, isn’t it?
  - mom93821 replied
    
    14 Apr 2016 , 5:59 am
    
    LOL! It is very funny at times! Pasta bake does seem to make those veggies more appealing!
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- - youngoldlady said
  - 13 Apr 2016
    4:32 pm
Pasta is always a great stand by meal when needing something quick.

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