Penne Parmesan Alfredo

Show: Dinner: ImpossibleEpisode: Camp Cookoff: Robert vs. Guy

Rated: 2 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (14)

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Cook Time:
15 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
6 servings

Times:

Prep: 10 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 15 min
Total:: 25 min

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Ingredients

1 medium onion, minced
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup hot milk
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
1 pound penne pasta
1 (8-ounce) package frozen peas, blanched in salt water
Salt and white pepper

Directions

Bring a pot of water to boil for the pasta.

For the sauce, melt butter in a saucepan which will be large enough to accommodate the pound of cooked pasta, and saute onion until it becomes translucent. Mix in the flour to make a roux. Gradually add milk and allow thickening over low heat. Remove from heat and whisk in Parmesan. Immediately cover surface of sauce with a sheet of plastic wrap and set aside briefly.

Boil the pasta until al dente and drain. Add the cooked pasta and the blanched peas to the pan containing the sauce and fold to coat pasta. Season with salt and pepper, as needed.

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recipe Penne Parmesan Alfredo
Bryan Palmer, AK 10-08-2009
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recipe needs help
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

Wish I had read the comments before I made it! Had to run to the store for more dairy. Ended up adding a pint of 1/2 & 1/2... and about twice the cheese as well as much more seasoning. Recipe should be edited to reflect this. Chef Irvine would fail any mission if he used it as is.Read more
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Renee Iuka, MS 07-25-2009
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Additional milk is the key to making this recipe work
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

I don't know what was originally meant for this recipe, but I ended up using 3 cups of milk. As others have mentioned, an... increase of cheese might be in order, too. But, I got by with the indicated amount. I liked what I ended up with, though...with my doctored recipe. I used this over spaghetti squash, and the onions really complimented it. Needs quite a bit of salt and white pepper to season it. At the end, I snipped some chives into it, too. really was a good addition to me and provided some good contrasting color.Read more
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KIM THEODORE, AL 05-16-2009
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Not as expected
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

This was good for a base for me to go on. You definitely need 2-3 cups of the milk. One was definitely not enough as it was... more of a paste with only 1 cup of milk. I also doubled the cheese in the sauce. I also added fresh pencil thin asparagus cut at a diagonal into thirds, woody ends trimmed naturally, instead of the peas and added that to the last 2-3 minutes of the salted starchy water while the pasta finished cooking. Read more
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null null, null 05-10-2009
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thanks for the heads up!
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

i was planning on making this for guests for the first time for mothers day. but now that i see how many people didnt care... for it i changed my mind. also using heavy cream instead of milk for alfredo can really make a HUGE difference!Read more
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Vic plainfield, IL 03-29-2009
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Don't bother!
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

This was a mess. Tonight was the night that my son (11) and I planned on making dinner for mom. He's learning to cook, so I... have been trying to use recipes so he learns to follow them, rather than try to learn the way I did - pinch of htis, touch of that, etc. We should have gone out... :) I guess that you are not supposed to cook the roux at all before adding the liquid in this recipe. That could explain it, maybe. We cooked the roux over very low heat to try and get rid of the floury taste, but things thickened up really fast (it was pasty after about 4 minutes). As the other posted indicated, the ratios are way off on this recipe - I ran out of milk at 4 cups, and had to use stock - at 5 cups of liquid I gave up. This was a gelatinous mass that sits like a brick in the stomach. Last time I try to teach my son to cook using a recipe - I should have just 'winged it' using a basic white and mixing in parmesan. Mom was very gracious, and didn't complain at all... Thank you Honey!Read more
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Pat Hinsdale, IL 11-17-2008
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MILK
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

I'll reiterate what everyone else has been saying, add more milk!! or else it'll come out thick. I didn't read these comments... before and suffered the consequences still pretty good none the lessRead more