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Colorful and Healthy Beet Pasta
December 17th, 2008 Madhuram Posted in Italian Cooking, Kid Pleaser Recipes | 
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My son is in “pasta phase” now. For the past couple of days he has been eating pasta for lunch and dinner. Actually I have to prepare the same pasta dish everyday. So I was thrilled and relieved to see Bharti’s Pink Pasta. She uses roasted and finely chopped beets to make this attractive pasta dish. It’s an amazing beet recipe. It inspired me to create another version of the pink pasta.
My son doesn’t like to bite into pieces of veggies, with an exception to few vegetables. So instead of simply adding chopped beets and garlic to make the pink sauce, I pureed everything together including the ricotta cheese in my Magic Bullet blender. That’s the reason I chose to use garlic powder instead of whole garlic as well. Bharti has used heavy cream and I didn’t have it at home, so I went with the part skim ricotta cheese which was sitting in my fridge after using little for these breakfast cookies. The pink sauce tasted very good.
I was having my doubts whether he would eat it or not, because so far he has been eating pasta in white color. So I got him all excited as soon as got home from school. I told that I gave it to his friend R also and she liked it so much. To my surprise he ate it without any fuss and also told me he liked it very much. I really have to thank Bharti for inspiring me to create this beet recipe.
Yield: 2 child size servings
to cover it and leave it for 1 whistle. Don’t pour the beets cooked water in the sink, instead prepare this beet soup in a jiffy.
2 Meanwhile cook the pasta also as per the package directions.
3 In a blender/food processor puree together the cooked beets, ricotta cheese, lemon pepper seasoning, garlic powder and salt.
4 Heat the oil in a frying pan and add the beet puree. Let it simmer for 2-3 minutes and the pink sauce is ready.
5 Toss the cooked pasta with the sauce and it’s ready to serve.
2 My son eats only cauliflower, broccoli and sometimes carrots, baby corn in it’s original form. That’s why I blended everything together, you may choose to chop/grate the beets, add minced garlic etc.
3 Chances are you may have extra pink sauce for the above measurement of pasta and beet. So first transfer the pink sauce to another container and add sauce little by little to the pasta and refrigerate/freeze the remaining sauce for another serving.
4 I got this pasta from Trader’s Joe and forgot to note down the name of the shape. It’s easy and fun for kids to eat this pasta with a fork. My son had a nice time seeing how many rings he could get each time in the fork.
5 I can’t wait to substitute carrots in this beet recipe and surprise my son with orange pasta.
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December 18th, 2008 at 11:18 am
That’s a gorgeous color. My kids would just eat seeing that color:)
December 18th, 2008 at 9:49 am
I never thought of beets in pasta! What an idea sirji
Just saw Bharti’s pasta – great idea, and am impressed with your speed in trying it out!
Thanks SM. I guess I have to keep trying something or the other to feed the little one, because a hungry child is a cranky child!
December 18th, 2008 at 8:15 am
My daughter is quite the pasta fan as well.. the beet sauce looks so pretty – great idea.
December 18th, 2008 at 5:05 am
a yummy recipe! I’m giving beetroot a try for sure.
December 17th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Kids do love colours and pastas… nice way to combine them both.Looks delicious
December 17th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
That is so colorful Madhu..You are such a innovative mom !!!