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Cheat's gooey pasta bake

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Cheat's gooey pasta bake

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Quick, tasty and filling, this is a great dish for a mid-week meal
 

Ingredients

  • 500g neapolitan fresh pasta sauce
  • a good handful of fresh basil leaves
  • 250g pack fresh spinach and ricotta tortellini
  • 100g mozzarella cheese, sliced
  • 2 tbsp grated fresh parmesan
  • 1 tbsp pine nuts
Serves: 2 Preparation: 10 Cook Time: 30 Total Time: 40min whats this
 

Directions

  1. Turn the oven to fan / conventional /gas Tip the pasta sauce into a large bowl and thin it down with l water. Scatter in the basil leaves and tortellini, season and give it a good stir.
  2. Tip half the pasta mixture into two individual ovenproof dishes (or one bigger one), and tear half the mozzarella over each dish. Spoon the rest of the pasta sauce on top, then add the tortellini, pressing it down a little with the back of a spoon so it doesn't stick above the sauce too much. Tear the remaining mozzarella and scatter on top with the parmesan and pine nuts.

 

Source: Easy Cook magazine

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