Easy Light Pasta Dish
If you have 30 minutes you can make this one. Double ingredients per two people.
This serves 2:
- 1/2 pot of creme fraiche.
- 2 bacon slices (not streaky)
- 1 leak.
- 3 cups of Penna pasta.
- half a cup of peas (frozen or fresh)
- 1/2 a can of chopped tomato.
- Blue cheese (Sainsburys does a great basics one for about £1.50)
This is a bake, so there is the initial cooking phase and then the baking phase. Takes no more than 30 minutes.
- Fry the bacon and 1/2 of the leek together.
- Pre-heat oven to 200Celsius.
- While this is frying, add some boiled water to your pasta pot and add the pasta. Turn hob to high and boil for about 10 minutes until nearly cooked. Don’t forget to add a little salt and a teaspoon of oil. I use olive oil as it is much healthier.
- Tear the bacon into rough bits and add back into the frying pan.
- Add the tomato to frying pan as well as the peas.
- Add the creme fraiche and about 100grams of blue cheese. Mix it in well.
- Strain the pasta and add it to a baking dish. The same sort of size you would use for a lasagna.
- Add the sauce to it and stir it in.
- Chop the other half of the leek and sprinkle over the pasta dish.
- Add about 100g more cheese in clumps as you did with the leeks.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes.
Enjoy this. I find it tastes very similar to what you would find in a restaurant. Isn’t that what the aim generally is?

# 1 by redmail99
December 18th, 2009 at 6:55 am #
sounds yummi…
# 2 by diamondpoet
December 18th, 2009 at 8:56 am #
Nice recipe good after work meal, thanks for sharing.
# 3 by Abigail Zhu
December 21st, 2009 at 5:44 am #
Sounds good! It’s stating to make me hungry already. Thanks for sharing.