This is what happens when you have three hungry teenage boys who can’t agree on what to eat. Mum to the rescue (as always!).
Pasta-Pizza
This is what happens when you have three hungry teenage boys who can’t agree on what toeat. Mum to the rescue (as always!).
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 120 grams bacon diced
- 1 onion chopped
- 2 garlic cloves smashed
- 300 grams mushrooms sliced + more to garnish
- 300 grams cherry tomatoes + more to garnish
- 125 ml white wine
- 250 ml tomato passata
- 500 grams penne or rigatoni pasta
- 150 grams feta cheese crumbled
- 100 grams ham sliced
- 50 grams peperoni + more to garnish
- 60 ml pasta water
- 400 grams mozzarella or pizza cheese
- 1 green or red bell pepper sliced
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- In a large skillet, cook bacon in olive oil, over medium heat until just beginning to colour. Add onion and garlic. Cook until soft and beginning to caramelize.
- Add mushrooms and cook 2-3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add cherry tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. When they start releasing their juices, pour in the wine. Let is bubble and evaporate for a minute. Add the passata and simmer until sauce thickens slightly. Remove from heat.
- Cook pasta in plenty of salted water 2 minutes less than the time indicated on the packet. Drain but keep some of the pasta cooking water. Mix pasta with tomato sauce. Add feta, ham, peperoni and 60 ml pasta water. Mix to combine.
- Transfer half of the pasta mixture in an oven proof dish, measuring about 23 x 33 cm. Sprinkle over half of the cheese. Top with remaining pasta mixture and remaining cheese. Garnish with extra peperoni slices, cherry tomato slices, mushroom slices and green or red pepper slices.
- Bake at 180° C fan, for 30 minutes. Serve at once.
