There are situations when you urgently need to cook something tasty, but there is absolutely no time to mess around with some new intricate recipes. For this case, baked pasta with cheese is an ideal option . Such a dish seems simple only at first glance. Nevertheless, in culinary dozens of different original ways of its preparation are known. For example, we can consider only a few of them.
Technique to help
Some people are confused by the difficulties associated with special temperature and time conditions. To make your work as easy as possible, you can use special equipment to work. The easiest way to make baked pasta with cheese in a slow cooker.
To do this, you must prepare the following required products in advance:
- 400 grams of pasta made from durum flour,
- 1 onion,
- some salt
- 150 grams of any hard cheese
- a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil.
To make baked pasta with cheese, you will need to follow these steps:
- Pour oil at the bottom of the bowl, and sprinkle pasta on top. And they do not need to be boiled in advance.
- Add onion, diced.
- Switch on the “baking” mode and then lightly fry the products for 15 minutes.
- Pour water into the bowl so that it slightly covers the pasta inside and add salt to taste.
- Close the lid tightly and set the “pilaf” mode on the panel. The baking will last only a few minutes.
- After the beep sounds, pour the grated cheese under the lid and wait quite a while until it melts.
Now ready-made pasta can be laid out on plates and served, sprinkled with fresh herbs.
As easy as pie
You can cook delicious baked pasta with cheese without using smart technology. All you need is a deep frying pan. In this case, you need the following set of products: for 70 grams of pasta, 10 grams of table margarine, 19 grams of hard cheese and 5-6 grams of butter.
The process technology will also change a little:
- The first step is to put the pasta in a pot of boiling water, add salt and boil until half cooked.
- Pour food into a colander, and then season them with oil and mix.
- Melt margarine in a pan, and then put the prepared pasta on it. From above products can be slightly sprinkled with grease.
- Sprinkle them with grated cheese in advance, cover and put on fire. Bake is necessary until a characteristic crust is formed.
To make the dish more fragrant, you can add various favorite spices. To the table, such pasta is best served with ketchup or specially prepared sauce for this.
Roasting conditions
The pasta baked with cheese in the oven is much tastier. This option can be considered more preferable, because the products are thus exposed to high temperature from all sides. And this, firstly, allows the dish to bake well from the inside, and secondly, it allows you to get an amazing ruddy crust.
To work, you will need the following components: for 400 grams of pasta, 2 fresh chicken eggs, 200 grams of cheese, a couple of glasses of milk, 2 cloves of garlic, pepper, salt, a little Provence herbs, as well as 2 tablespoons of flour and butter.
In accordance with this recipe, the cooking process should be carried out in stages:
- First you need to boil the pasta, and then throw them in a colander and rinse well, preferably with cold water.
- Grind the cheese on a coarse grater.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan and mix it thoroughly with flour.
- Add milk and wait until the mixture begins to thicken.
- Add cheese, pepper and remove the finished sauce from the stove.
- Beat eggs by adding crushed garlic to them.
- Combine the resulting mass with pasta and cooked sauce, and then gently lay out in a mold treated with oil. Top products can be lightly sprinkled with herbs.
- Send the form to the oven for half an hour, preheating it to 200 degrees.
Such a dish is best served hot to the table.
With meat
For a full dinner, it is better to use a different recipe and make pasta baked with minced meat and cheese. The dish turns out more caloric and tasty enough.
This turns out to be a casserole, in which the following initial ingredients are involved: 300 grams of minced meat will need the same amount of pasta, 1 tablespoon of sour cream and semolina, 2 eggs, 280 grams of onions, a little salt and pepper, 100 grams of hard cheese and 15 grams butter.
To prepare such a dish you must:
- Lightly fry the minced meat with chopped onions in a pan, adding a little vegetable oil.
- Boil pasta in salted water. After this, they must be filtered and rinsed well. Wait until the water drains completely.
- Combine the minced meat with pasta.
- Introduce sour cream, eggs and mix everything.
- Put the resulting mass in a form well coated with butter.
- Sprinkle with semolina and grated cheese.
- Send for baking in the oven for 35-40 minutes. The air temperature inside should be at least 180 degrees.
The finished casserole will only have to be cut into pieces and serve on the table in portioned dishes, decorated with fresh herbs.