You’ll love this recipe from the primary aromas – after simply 10 minutes within the oven! For those who’ve heard of the favored TikTok feta and tomato pasta bake we’ve got reworked this meals development into a simple spring-to-summer pasta. Introducing our Strawberry Basil Feta Pasta. I’m not drooling, you’re drooling!
This can be a low-maintenance recipe with below 20 minutes of prep time. And an awesome one to win anybody over at a pot-luck, yard BBQ, or just a household dinner. It’s extraordinarily versatile as you may select your favourite pasta noodles; calling all bow-tie, penne, and rigatoni lovers! This pasta can be served as a scorching pasta or a chilly pasta salad, as these flavors collectively are simply winners. I truly favor it as a chilly pasta salad, however that’s simply me! The sunshine and contemporary flavors that the strawberries and basil create are too scrumptious.
BTW, I ought to introduce myself… My title is Kennedy Profaizer and I’m at the moment engaged on my Masters in Dietetics to change into a Registered Dietitian. I get pleasure from cooking, sustainability, and the social media side of meals and diet; so working with Serena and Deanna was absolutely the good match!
At first, I used to be very nervous making this. I figured, effectively, that is going to be implausible or a whole dud. I’m glad it was not a dud. The candy juices from the strawberries, combined with the salty creaminess from the feta and the freshness the basil brings in: ugh I’m obsessed!
Query: For those who may very well be one pasta what would you be? I feel I’d be bow-tie, as a result of I prefer to suppose I’m very fancy! 😉
Description
Like the favored TikTok baked tomato feta recipe, however with new spring and summer season flavors of strawberries and basil. Serve it with pasta as a chilly picnic salad, or room temperature.
- 2 kilos of contemporary strawberries, stemmed and quartered
- 1 block (8 oz) of feta cheese
- 4 tablespoons of additional virgin olive oil, divided
- ¼ teaspoon of black pepper
- 1 pound of your favourite pasta noodles
- 1 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt
- 1 cup of contemporary basil, chopped
- 2 tablespoons of decreased balsamic French dressing, non-obligatory
- Preheat oven to 400 levels Fahrenheit. Mist a 9 x 13 inch baking dish with cooking spray.
- Add lower strawberries into baking dish and drizzle strawberries with 2 tablespoons of olive oil; toss with fingers to utterly cowl strawberries.
- Add block of feta to the center of the dish, no strawberries needs to be below the feta however all strawberries ought to encompass the feta. Drizzle the final 2 tablespoons of olive oil on prime of feta block and sprinkle with pepper. Bake for 40 minutes till feta is a lightweight golden brown and strawberries are mushy and effervescent of their juices.
- Whereas the feta and strawberries are cooking, boil water for pasta in a big pot. When boiling, stir within the salt.
- Prepare dinner pasta noodles in keeping with package deal instructions.
- Drain pasta noodles when completed cooking al dente; saving ¼ to ½ cup of pasta water earlier than draining. The starch from the pasta water helps thicken pasta sauce.
- As soon as strawberries are completed, break up feta and blend with strawberries. Add combined strawberries and feta sauce to pot of noodles and stir collectively. Add just a few tablespoons of pasta water. End with chopped basil and provides it one other couple stirs.
- Serve both heat from the pot into bowls or cool for 2-3 hours within the fridge to function a chilly pasta salad and add non-obligatory drizzle of decreased balsamic French dressing.
