Veggie Pasta Bake
Veggie Pasta Bake

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, veggie pasta bake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Veggie Pasta Bake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Veggie Pasta Bake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Put the peppers, aubergine, courgette and onion into a roasting tin or deep baking dish and coat in the oil. This Veggie Pasta Bake is a perfect easy and comforting vegetarian pasta casserole. With a variety of veggies and cheese, this vegetable baked pasta is great for crowds, easy to freeze and reheat, and convenient for meal prep!

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have veggie pasta bake using 24 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Veggie Pasta Bake:
  1. Take Penna Pasta
  2. Take Olive oil (max 3 tablespoons only), plus extra for drizzling
  3. Prepare Salt
  4. Prepare Sauce
  5. Prepare plum tomatoes (400g each)
  6. Prepare pasta bolognese sauce (500g)
  7. Make ready water
  8. Make ready Italian herbs (rosemary, oregano, thyme)
  9. Make ready Garlic cloves, finely chopped
  10. Make ready green chillies halved, lengthwise (medium spice level)
  11. Get sugar
  12. Prepare Fresh basil (leave some for garnish)
  13. Get VEGGIES + SAUSAGES (dry-fried/grilled & baked)
  14. Get Vegetarian sausages (I used Cauldron brand)
  15. Make ready courgette/zuchinni, chopped round then into half moons
  16. Take Aubergine (medium-large), cut vertically- see pics below
  17. Get button mushrooms, washed and medium chopped
  18. Make ready pack Spinach, washed
  19. Make ready large red onion
  20. Prepare balsamic vinegar
  21. Get Toppings
  22. Take Fresh basil
  23. Take Cheddar and mozarella, shredded/grated
  24. Take Olive oil for drizzling

So here's one for you right now! Full of veggies, with a creamy tomato sauce and topped off with a melty two-cheese topping. This pasta bake is a full meal in its own right. Your family will beg for this meal!

Steps to make Veggie Pasta Bake:
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius- for sausages and courgette later
  2. For the sauce. In a pan on medium heat, add 1 tbsp oil. Then add chopped garlic, 3 green chillies, halved. Cook until garlic is browned
  3. Turn up heat slightly. Add in 2 cans of plum tomatoes, 1 jar bolognese sauce, pinch of salt, italian herbs and fresh basil. Add 1/4 cup water. Mix all until sauce comes to a boil. Then lower heat, cover and let simmer over low-medium heat for 25 minutes. Stir occasionally.
  4. Cook pasta as per pack instructions with 1 tbsp oil and salt. Drain when ready.
  5. While pasta sauce is simmering for the next 25 mins, put sausages in pre-heated oven. Bake as per pack instructions (mine were 20 mins). Cut courgettes into half moons. Bake for 10 mins. (I put mine in the same baking pan as the sausages and just removed them earlier, allowing sausages to finish baking). Once baked, cut sausages. Set courgettes and sausages aside.
  6. Cut your aubergine lengthwise. In a separate pan, on medium heat (NO OIL), place aubergine and allow to dry-fry for 7-10 mins on each side, turning occasionally, until they become slightly charred- see pic. Remove and set aside.
  7. Slice red onion thinly. In same pan, on medium heat, add half tbsp oil and sliced red onions. When they start to wilt, add 1tsp balsamic vinegar (see pic). This will give them a sweet taste! Allow to caramelise slightly. Remove and set aside.
  8. In same pan, cook your mushrooms until no longer watery. Set aside.
  9. Pasta tomato sauce should be ready and reduced by now. Add 1tbsp sugar to balance the taste. Mix. Add drained pasta to sauce together with the courgettes, mushrooms, sausages. Mix all. Add spinach, cover for 2 mins to allow it to wilt. Uncover. Stir all for 1 min. Remove from heat.
  10. Assemble! Grease your baking dish with a spray of olive oil. Pour the mixed pasta. Top with the caramelised red onions and charred aubergine. Finish with grated cheddar and mozarella all over. Add basil for garnish. See pic.
  11. Drizzle the top lightly with olive oil. Bake at 200 degrees celsius for 15 mins, until golden. Enjoy and bon appetit!

In an effort to spend more time as a family eating, we decided to throw together an Easy Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake for dinner. A vegetarian take on a baked pasta classic, made with homemade white sauce (it's easy), lots of fresh basil and charred aubergine slices. Sunblush tomato and olive vegan paella. This oven-baked, plant-based paella is full of antipasti favourites like peppers, artichoke and tomato, and is packed with punchy flavour. This Vegetable Pasta Bake is very easy to make.

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