Tomato & mozzarella pasta bake
- Calories
- 1059
- Protein
- 62g
- Carbs
- 104g
- Fat
- 41g
Dinner · about 35 minutes · one serving
What you need
- ·110g wholewheat pasta
- ·125g mozzarella
- ·300g passata
- ·150g cottage cheese
- ·150g courgettes
- ·10g garlic
- ·80g baby spinach
- ·10g olive oil
Method
- 1Pasta boiled two minutes short of the packet time. It finishes in the oven and overcooked pasta bake is mush.
- 2Courgette in half-moons browned hard in the oil with the garlic.
- 3Cottage cheese stirred into the passata — it melts into a creamy sauce and carries three times the protein a white sauce would.
- 4Everything mixed with the spinach, into a dish, mozzarella torn over in pieces rather than sliced.
- 5Hot oven, 15 minutes, until the top has brown patches.
Torn mozzarella, not grated: it melts into pools rather than a uniform blanket, which is what you actually want on top of a bake.
Worth knowing: Torn mozzarella, not grated: it melts into pools rather than a uniform blanket, which is what you actually want on top of a bake.
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