Today it is difficult to say who and when came up with casseroles. But the fact that millions of housewives are grateful to him is absolutely certain. It is difficult to imagine a more satisfying, simple and tasty dish. Now there are already more than one hundred ways to cook pasta casserole . These dishes are made with various vegetables, meat, sausage and cheeses, and even served as a dessert. It remains only to choose one of them that will be to your taste, and then cook it for your loved ones.
Of course, the most popular recipes are those where meat, minced meat or sausage are added to the dish. For example, a spicy pasta casserole turns out to be very tasty (photo). The recipe for its preparation is very simple. Boil 250 g of pasta until cooked (penne or horns are best). Remove the peel from 3 tomatoes (to do this, dip them in hot water for a few seconds) and remove the seed core. Cut the remaining pulp, 100 g salami and 1 onion into strips. 200 g cheese cut into cubes. Mix everything and put in a baking dish (grease it with oil). For pouring, mix 3 eggs and 125 g of cream, salt, pepper and add a pinch of nutmeg. Pour pasta with the resulting mixture and put in the oven for 35-40 minutes until a crust appears. When serving, garnish with parsley if desired.
Of course, such a popular dish can be completely vegetarian, if you know how to cook pasta and vegetables casserole. For it, you need to take 1 cup of dried pasta, 1 onion, carrots and paprika, 1 cup of string beans and 400 g of
tomatoes in their own juice. Boil
pasta until cooked and discard on a sieve. Randomly chop all vegetables and fry in vegetable oil until half cooked. Grind tomatoes and add to vegetables along with juice. Stir, add grated cheese to taste, remove from heat. Combine the resulting mass with boiled pasta and put in a greased form. It remains only to prepare the sauce. Beat 2 eggs with 2 cups of milk, salt and dried basil. Pour into the mold and put it in the oven, heated to 200
0 C, for 40 minutes.
And it is obvious that among the recipes there is also a
sweet pasta
casserole . For it, you need to boil 200 g of pasta until half ready (it is best to take hollow so that the filling can fill them). Until they have cooled, carefully stir 450 g of cottage cheese and half a glass of sugar. Add vanillin and dried fruits to taste. Put in the form (grease it with oil). Pour the mixture with beaten eggs (you will need 3 pieces) mixed with a glass of milk. Garnish the casserole with apple slices on top and sprinkle with sugar mixed with cinnamon. Put in the oven and bake until cooked. On top you get a delicious caramel crust. Knowing how to cook
pasta and cottage cheese casserole, you can fantasize as you wish. For example, instead of apples, you can use pears or peaches. Yes, and dried fruits can be very different.
In fact, you can come up with many more options for how to cook pasta casserole . After all, the first such dishes were actually made in order to dispose of stale products from the refrigerator. Often casseroles are cooked on this principle today.