My speciality is pasta bakes, I'm pretty good at them, they are also a dish that you can make for as many people as you need to if it's 1 or 1000 people that you need to feed. One of the best things about pasta bakes is that you can experiment with them so much, you can create a lot of different meals without changing a lot.
Ingredients:
- Chicken
- Pasta
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- Cheddar Cheese
For the tomato sauce (can use shop bought)
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 500ml crushed tomato
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 2 tablespoons fresh basil
- Salt and pepper to taste
For the cheese sauce (can buy it from
Shop)
- 50g of butter
- 250ml of double cream
- Salt
- 75g of Parmesan cheese
To prepare the tomato sauce
- Sauté the garlic until a golden brown colour (do this on a low heat because garlic is easy to burn)
- Add the tomatoes, salt, pepper, oregano and bay leaf. Stir to mix everything in, then allow to simmer on the heat until reduced into a thick sauce.
- Mix in the basil.
To make the cheese sauce
- Melt the butter in a pan on a low heat.
- Add in the double cream stirring constantly, then mix in the cheese, add the salt to taste (if the sauce appears too thick then add in milk)
- Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Celsius
- Put the olive oil in a pan and fry your chicken until cooked
- While the chicken cooks boil the pasta in a pan of water
- Once the chicken is cooked take it out of the pan, when the pasta is cooked drain all of the water.
- Add the chicken and tomato sauce to the pasta and mix until all combined
- Empty the pasta and chicken into an oven proof dish, pour the cheese sauce on top and sprinkle with cheese.
- Place in the oven until the cheese has melted and browned
It's as simple as that, you can always change what meat you put in, or add anything you want to. If you do try this one let me know how you get on, leave me a comment!
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