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Ingredients
Creamy Pasta Casserole
For the pasta, mix milk in a saucepan with water and butter, heat and season with salt and nutmeg. Add flour to the pot, stir and cook for 7 minutes while stirring constantly. Remove from heat, let cool and then gradually stir in eggs and grated Parmesan.
Bring plenty of salted water to a boil in a large pot.
From the pasta mixture, spoon a small pasta dumpling and cook for 2 minutes in the boiling salt water. Remove pasta from the pot with a slotted spoon and drain. Repeat process for all of pasta dough.
For the bechamel, melt butter in a saucepan, add flour, stir in milk gradually until a thickish sauce has formed and then season with salt and nutmeg. Place pasta dumplings in an ovenproof casserole dish, pour bechamel sauce over pasta, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese, cover with knobs of butter and bake in a preheated 180°C (approximately 350°F) oven for 12 minutes. Serve immediately.
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
| Calorie | 1,152 cal. | (55 %) | ||
| Protein | 37 g | (38 %) | ||
| Fat | 84 g | (72 %) | ||
| Carbohydrates | 63 g | (42 %) | ||
| Sugar added | 0 g | (0 %) | ||
| Roughage | 1.9 g | (6 %) |