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Great recipe for Cheesy Pasta Bake With Turkey, Fennel & Thyme. Pure comfort in a bowl is provided by this super easy cheesy pasta bake. Here I've used lean turkey meat with simple dried herbs and other ingredients that many people will already have in their kitchen cupboards.
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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cheesy pasta bake with turkey, fennel & thyme using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Pasta Bake With Turkey, Fennel & Thyme:
- Take 225 g rigatoni pasta,
- Take 375 g 7% fat turkey thigh mince meat,
- Prepare 200 ml tomato passata,
- Take 1 small onion, chopped,
- Make ready 1-2 large tomatoes, chopped coarsely,
- Take 1 tbsp tomato puree paste,
- Take 2 tsp dried thyme,
- Prepare 1.5 tsp fennel seeds,
- Prepare Cracked black pepper, to season,
- Make ready 1 tsp sugar,
- Prepare Salt to season and for pasta cooking water,
- Make ready Vegetable oil for frying
- Prepare To top:
- Make ready 60 g Grated mature cheddar cheese (I used 30% less fat)
Even the pickiest kids love pasta, and the tortellini in this dish has protein and calcium-rich cheese inside the pasta. Serve the Cheesy Tortellini with a side salad and garlic bread for a full Italian dinner. Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, saute garlic in butter until tender.
Instructions to make Cheesy Pasta Bake With Turkey, Fennel & Thyme:
- Add oil to a medium saucepan and once hot add in the onions and begin to gently fry, turn down the heat a little. After frying until turning translucent add in the turkey mince meat. Fry off until almost cooked through then season well with salt and plenty of cracked black pepper. Take the fennel seeds and grind them in a mortar and pestle.
- Add in the ground fennel seeds plus the thyme. Stir through. Next add the tomato paste and the passata. Stir through. Bring to a simmer. Add in the sugar and stir through. Simmer on a medium low heat.
- Begin to cook the pasta according to packet instructions in salted water. Preheat your oven to 180 (fan). Once the pasta is almost cooked remove from the heat and drain off the water. Take your oven proof dish and spoon in the pasta then add the sauce. Gently mix through until the pasta is coated evenly.
- Scatter over your grated cheese then place in the hot oven and cook for around 10 minutes. Then to finish place beneath a hot grill until the cheese is golden and bubbling.
- Serve up and enjoy! :)
To make my Deliciously Cheesy Baked Fennel Onion Gratin you'll need the following ingredients. Three fennel blubs, one medium onion (I used a red onion), olive oil, butter, salt, pepper, vegetable stock (or chicken stock if you're not eating vegetarian), mayonnaise, shredded mozzarella cheese, and shredded romano cheese. Trim the top fronds and the root base from the fennel. Add the broccoli, turkey, prepared pasta, milk and ⅓ cup parmesan cheese, stir to combine. Adam and Joanne's Tips Fennel adds a light licorice flavor to the pasta and is one of the spices used to make Italian sausage.
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