Baked Pasta, some continental food for dinner.

Saturday night dinner was a surprise from wife as she cooked up two variations of Baked Pasta.

It's not very difficult to cook as the ingredients are few and the dish doesn't need too much preparation. We used macaroni pasta as the base. Boiled the pasta in water and drain once cooked. Chopped broccoli, beans, carrots and sweet corn were the main ingredients. In addition purple cabbage was used in the pasta with white sauce only version. The other version had white sauce and tomato sauce.

Tomato and white sauce based

White sauce based This version had purple cabbage as extra ingredient.

White sauce based

Ingredients:

Macaroni pasta (boiled with olive oil and salt, and drained).

Cheese slices.

Broccoli florets.

Carrot slices.

Chopped beans.

Sweet corn kernels.

Chopped purple cabbage.

White sauce/tomato sauce.

Olive oil for tossing vegetables.

Preparation:

Heat a pan, add some olive oil and add all the vegetables. Toss them for a minute or two and then take off the heat. Layer in the bowl - first the sauce, then the pasta, then the vegetables and finally the cheese slices. You can also add the cheese slice in between the pasta and vegetables for more cheesiness. Quantity of cheese slices is totally up to your personal preference. We used exactly one slice per bowl. Then bake in OTG for 20 minutes at 220 C. If you want the cheese to be more stringy/burnt, then increase the overall baking time to 25-30 minutes.

Serving:

Garnish (optional) before serving. We used  red chilli flakes. You can also add various herbs for seasoning like thyme, rosemary, oregano. Scoop out portions and serve. 

Hope you liked this recipe. Do let us know if you have any queries in the comments.