Easy Italian pasta bake
Easy Italian pasta bake

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, easy italian pasta bake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Italian pasta bake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Easy Italian pasta bake is something that I have loved my whole life.

Stir in spaghetti sauce, diced tomatoes, mushrooms and Italian seasoning. Combine Parmesan and mozzarella to give this pasta bake its Italian appeal. Add cooked pasta, sauce, and half of the parmesan; mix well. Top with mozzarella cheese and remaining parmesan.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have easy italian pasta bake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Italian pasta bake:
  1. Take 300 gr pasta
  2. Take Grana Padano cheese
  3. Get Tomato passata
  4. Prepare Olive oil
  5. Take leaves Basil
  6. Make ready For the beschamel
  7. Take 500 ml whole milk
  8. Take 50 gr unsalted butter
  9. Prepare 50 gr all-purpose flour
  10. Prepare Salt

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Instructions to make Easy Italian pasta bake:
  1. Cook the pasta in salted boiling water until almost fully cooked (it will complete to cook in the oven)
  2. In the meantime, prepare the bechamel sauce. Warm up the milk, then melt the butter into a saucepan, and add the flour to it, mixing it together. When smooth, start adding the milk and mix until there are no clumps left. On medium heat, add salt to taste and keep stirring until the sauce thickens. Turn off the heat and set aside.
  3. Drain the pasta, then put it back into its pan on medium heat. Add the tomato passata (as much as you prefer) and the olive oil (about 3 tablespoons). Stir everything well for a few minutes, then turn off the heat.
  4. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F)
  5. Grab a loafpan, and begin making layers (they should be only 2). Start with a layer of pasta, then bechamel sauce, then repeat. The last layer has to be bechamel. Put a couple handfuls of grated grana padano cheese on top, then add some basil leaves.
  6. Now that you assembled everything, put the loafpan into the oven for about 20/30 minutes or until the cheese on top becomes golden and crispy.
  7. You made it! I hope you like my recipe, buon appetito! :)

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