What to eat on a gloomy autumn afternoon when you don’t have much time to cook dinner, but you dream of a warming meal? This is a great solution quick autumn pasta casserole. Treat the recipe below as a base one. You can make this dish with any pasta, enrich it with eggplant or carrot, and replace the oregano with another spice you like. They will fit perfectly here too mushrooms, corn and canned beans.
To prepare this recipe, you will need:
- 200 g of pasta, e.g. gimlets,
- 500 g of minced beef and pork,
- 1 red pepper,
- 1 onion,
- 3 cloves of garlic,
- 2 cans of chopped tomatoes,
- 120 g of yellow cheese,
- 1 teaspoon of oregano,
- ½ teaspoon of basil,
- salt, pepper (to taste),
- 2 tablespoons of clarified butter.
Boil the pasta al dente in salted water. Strain.
Wash the peppers and remove the seeds. Cut the flesh into cubes.
Peel the onion and chop finely. Peel the garlic cloves and chop them or press them through a press.
Heat the clarified butter in a pan. Fry the onion in it. When it becomes translucent, add garlic and pepper. When the pepper softens slightly, add the meat to the pan. Fry for a few minutes, stirring occasionally, until the meat is brown.
Add tomatoes to the pan. Simmer the sauce until excess juice evaporates. At the end, add oregano and basil. Season everything to taste with salt and pepper.
In the meantime, grate the cheese on the large holes of a grater.
Mix the pasta into the prepared sauce. Transfer to a lightly greased ovenproof dish. Sprinkle with cheese.
Put the casserole in the oven preheated to 180°C. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
Sources: Terazgotuje.pl
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