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Easy vegetable pasta bake recipe
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Vegetarian pasta bake is an absolute classic and, with our simple recipe using store-bought sauce, it's so easy to make this winning family dinner while sticking to a budget. With mushrooms, peppers and oozy Cheddar cheese, this is a dish the whole family will love. See method
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 375g pack Nightingale Farms mixed peppers, deseeded and chopped
- 200g Redmere Farms mushrooms, halved
- 440g jar Hearty Food Co tomato and herb pasta sauce
- 500g pack Hearty Food Co penne
- 100g Creamfields mild Cheddar, grated
If you haven't got penne, try using fusilli or another short pasta
Each serving contains
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Energy
2640kj
624kcal
31%
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Fat
15g
21%
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Saturates
6g
32%
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Sugars
10g
11%
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Salt
1.1g
19%
of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 105.3g
Protein 23.2g
Fibre 3g
Method
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan over high heat. Add the peppers and mushrooms and cook for 5 mins until lightly browned and soft.
- Pour over the pasta sauce and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 10 mins. Preheat the oven to gas 6, 200°C, fan 180°C.
- Meanwhile cook the pasta to pack instructions. Drain, then stir through the pasta sauce.
- Tip into a baking dish (about 20 x 30cm) and scatter over the cheese. Bake for 15-20 mins until the cheese has melted, then serve.
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