![]() Because you cook the pancetta and garlic before baking, I like to make Baked Feta Pasta in a cast iron pan.Optional add-ins: shallots (cook with the pancetta and garlic if adding), broccoli, zucchini, bell peppers, or chicken or Italian sausage for extra protein.Reserved Pasta Water – read on below to see why pasta water is the secret ingredient!.Pasta Noodles – cook pasta to al dente while the sauce bakes! My favorite shapes to use for this recipe are rigatoni, rotini, and cavatappi because they soak up the sauce so well.These small tomatoes burst while cooking and that liquid makes up some of the sauce. Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes – I think heirloom cherry tomatoes have the best flavor, but you can use grape tomatoes or classic cherry tomatoes.Feta Cheese – make sure you get the feta block, not crumbles.I love serving this over rigatoni pasta because the sauce fills up the inside of the pasta, but you can serve it with any pasta shape you have on hand. Once you add spinach, basil, garlic, and pancetta to the mix, you have a really unforgettable dish. To add garlic cut four garlic cloves in half lenghtwise, toss them in same time as the tomatoes and roll in olive oil.This Baked Feta Pasta comes together in less than an hour and tastes like something you would order at a restaurant! The block of feta cooks down into a creamy sauce and the tomatoes are roasted to perfection. Tip! Garlic goes well with baked feta pasta. Mix the sauce with pasta and add plenty of basil leaves. The stems are there merely for the instagrammable look, so plein cherry tomatoes will do fine.īreak the feta a bit and mix with tomatoes. If you used cherry tomatoes with stems, remove them. Caution! This might cause the fire alarm to go off, mine does that every time □Ĭook the pasta al dente according to cooking instructions. Turn the heat to 440 F / 225 C, move the dish to the upper rack and use the grilling mode for another 10 minutes. Grind some pepper and season with pinch of salt.īake in 400 F / 200 C for 15 minutes in the middle rack. Place the cherry tomatoes on the sides and roll around in oil. Chop the red chili pepper and add on top of feta cheese. Pour some olive on the bottom of the baking dish. Original #uunifetapasta recipe translated into english You can find me on Instagram for more deliciousness! Baked feta pasta There’s no going back – I’ve warned you! □ It’s one of those dishes that you notice cooking weekly once you do it once. Baked feta pasta must have saved hundreds of thousands weeknight meal wonderings – and still does. Nowdays I throw couple of garlic cloves in the baking dish too. ![]() Just add fresh basil leaves and italian durum wheat pasta. In the oven they turned into an amazing pasta sauce by itself. I love baked feta and thought why not turn it into a pasta sauce! Oven baked feta, way too much olive oil, burning hot chili and soft bursting cherry tomatoes. So here’s the original baked feta pasta recipe in english! I had another busy day working from home and had to come up with a quick lunch. Thank you! <3 Your new weeknight favourite If you share my baked feta pasta recipe on TikTok or Instagram, I would be over the moon if you can credit the original creator of the viral recipe. #uunifetapasta world domination is a joke no more! □ĮDIT : Turns out #uunifetapasta is The new TIKTOK pasta and riding a third viral wave after big TikTok users like and shared it! The #uunifetapasta fever is global and I’m so happy for it bringing joy to peoples lives in these times. Now the baked feta pasta is going viral across the pond in the States. Until american blogger and chef heard of the baked feta pasta from a friend, who’s boyfriend is a finnish chef and translated the recipe. The baked feta pasta recipe was in finnish, so it wasn’t really available for a boarder audience. ![]() I have a lot of finnish followers also abroad and my instagram feed was floded with baked feta pasta photos from Hawaii to Australia. Finland has 5.5 million inhabitants, to put things into perspective. By everybody I mean EVERYBODY! The feta cheese sales went up 300 % here, the shops were running out of baked feta pasta ingredients and by this date the original uunifetapasta recipe post has over 2.7 million views. The funny thing is that #uunifetapasta actually turned into a viral hit in Finland and everybody was cooking it. With these words I started of the original blog post 1,5 years ago – with a twinkle in my eye. ”Baked feta pasta! Have you already tried this viral hit pasta? I have.
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