Easy Italian pasta bake
Easy Italian pasta bake

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, easy italian pasta bake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Italian pasta bake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Easy Italian pasta bake is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy italian pasta bake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Italian pasta bake:
  1. Prepare 300 gr pasta
  2. Prepare Grana Padano cheese
  3. Make ready Tomato passata
  4. Get Olive oil
  5. Take leaves Basil
  6. Make ready For the beschamel
  7. Take 500 ml whole milk
  8. Make ready 50 gr unsalted butter
  9. Make ready 50 gr all-purpose flour
  10. Get Salt
Instructions to make Easy Italian pasta bake:
  1. Cook the pasta in salted boiling water until almost fully cooked (it will complete to cook in the oven)
  2. In the meantime, prepare the bechamel sauce. Warm up the milk, then melt the butter into a saucepan, and add the flour to it, mixing it together. When smooth, start adding the milk and mix until there are no clumps left. On medium heat, add salt to taste and keep stirring until the sauce thickens. Turn off the heat and set aside.
  3. Drain the pasta, then put it back into its pan on medium heat. Add the tomato passata (as much as you prefer) and the olive oil (about 3 tablespoons). Stir everything well for a few minutes, then turn off the heat.
  4. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F)
  5. Grab a loafpan, and begin making layers (they should be only 2). Start with a layer of pasta, then bechamel sauce, then repeat. The last layer has to be bechamel. Put a couple handfuls of grated grana padano cheese on top, then add some basil leaves.
  6. Now that you assembled everything, put the loafpan into the oven for about 20/30 minutes or until the cheese on top becomes golden and crispy.
  7. You made it! I hope you like my recipe, buon appetito! :)

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