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At Anchor
Blue Cheese and Tomato Pasta Bake
This is a nice easy recipe to do - and the ingredients can keep in your fridge for around a week, so perfect as a dinner to have at anchor when you want to get through any fresh meat etc first.
Prep15 mins
Cook30 mins
CaloriesVariable - But Quite High
Best forAt Anchor
Recipe video
Method
- Cook the pasta in boiling water.
- While the pasta is cooking prep the other ingredients:
- Chop the tomatoes in half (make sure they are cherry sized toms of any variety).
- Roughly diced the cheese (its gonna crumble - thats OK)
- When the pasta is cooked and drained mix into it some olive oil (about 1 tbsp) and some tomato puree (1 - 2 tbsp) and some basil.
- Give it a good mix - the heat of the pasta should melt most of the cheese (doesn't matter if there are small lumps)
- Tip the pasta mix into a baking tray
- Sprinkle breadcrumbs to cover the pasta, then sprinle over some parmesan and salt and pepper.
- Spray the topping with oil (so it crisps rather than toasts) or drizzle if no spray available.
- Shove it into the oven for about 30 mins - 180 degrees C if you are a land lubber, or if you have a marine oven pick the 'on' setting ;-)
Notes
- You can have as many/few fresh tomatoes as you like, and even add some cooked broccoli or other veg if you like.
- The key ingredient is the Blue Shropshire Cheese. Stilton will work as well, but I like the creaminess of Blue Shropshire.
- But it needs to be a blue cheese that will dissolve into a sauce on its own accord - cheddar etc simply won't cut it...