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Recipe - Roasted Vegie Pasta Bake

by Erica Green

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Roasting vegetables brings out their natural sweetness and intensifies their flavours.  Combined here with pasta, sauce, and cheese they create a comforting meal for sharing with family and friends. This recipe makes enough to feed a crowd or one for now and one for later.

 
Ingredients

Serves 8-12

• 1 whole bulb garlic
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 400g kumara, peeled & roughly chopped.
• 1 red onion, roughly chopped.
• 1 red capsicum, roughly chopped.
• 1 Tsp. dried oregano
• 1 zucchini, remove core & roughly chop.
• 500g dried elbow pasta
• 2 x 400g bottles tomato pasta sauce
• 250g sour cream
• 1/4 cup basil paste
• 1/2 cup olives, roughly chopped
• 120g baby spinach, roughly chopped.
• 3 cups grated cheddar cheese.
• Salt and pepper to taste.

Method

• Preheat the oven to 180C fan forced.
• Wrap the garlic in foil with a little olive oil.
• Mix together the kumara, onion, capsicum, and oregano with the remaining oil.
• Place veggies and garlic, on a large, lined baking sheet. Bake for 15 min. Add the zucchini to the tray and bake for another 25-30 minutes or until the vegetables are almost cooked.
• Cook the pasta according to the packet.  Drain and reserve 1 cup of the cooking liquid.
• Squeeze out the garlic and mash to a paste.
• In a large bowl, combine: - garlic, vegetables, pasta, pasta sauce, sour cream, basil paste, olives, spinach,  pasta water, 1 cup of cheese & salt and pepper.
• Divide the between 2 lasagne baking dishes.
• Cover with remaining cheese. Bake at 180C for 25-30 minutes.

About the Recipe

• This recipe is suitable for vegetarians but not for vegans.
• Buy the best pasta sauce that you can afford as some cheaper brands can be quite acidic.  The "Mutti" brand has a good reputation for quality Italian tomato-based products.
• You can make this recipe well in advance and just bake when required. 
• You can customize the roasted vegetable based on your preferences and what's in season.  For Example:- carrots, mushrooms, eggplant or broccoli.
• Just add the more delicate vegetables a little later in the roasting process as they will not need as long to cook.

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