Creamy Pasta Dish

Method

• step 1

  Preheat the oven to 190c/Gas mark 5

• step 2

  Cook the pasta in boiling water until 'al dente' (soft). Whilst this is cooking, chop the mushrooms and broccoli ready to add later. Also chop the onion and set aside.

• step 3

  Once the broccoli and mushrroms are chopped, add them to the saucepan and leave to soften a bit more. When this is done, drain the mixture then set aside in the large bowl.

• step 4

  Now fry the onion with the vegetable oil at the bottom of the saucepan. Do this for about 3/5 until cooked - they shouldn't be brown. Then add them to the mixture in the bowl and stir around so it can mix in.

• step 5

  Measure out the sauce ingredients, then place in the small bowl. Tip all of this into the, now empty, saucepan and stir well with the whisk on a low heat.

• step 6

  Stir all the time until the sauce thickens . Keep stirring until the sauce has a smooth consistency and is free from lumps.

• step 7

  Put the sauce in the bowl with the pasta, then stir until the sauce covers the mixture.

• step 8

  Tear the ham into small, thin shreds and sprinkle into the mixture. Stir in and add any seasoning: salt & pepper.

• step 9

  Place the mixture into an oven-proof dish and cook for 10 minutes. Enjoy!