Easy Pasta Bake Recipe
 
 
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Recipe type: pasta
Ingredients:
  • 100 grams butter
  • 6 tbsp plain flour
  • 750 mls milk
  • 500 grams beef mince
  • 425 grams tinned tomatoes
  • 3 tbps tomato paste
  • 500 gms large pasta spirals
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 750 grams pasta sauce
  • 1 onion
Method:
  1. This recipe makes quite a large meal, so is great for when you would like to feed many mouths or have some left over for another night.
Meat Sauce
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
  2. Finely chop onion.
  3. Chop tomatoes in the tin, so that they are in small pieces.
  4. Heat oil in a large frying pan.
  5. Add onion and garlic and fry for 2 - 3 minutes.
  6. Add the meat and cook. Break it up as it is cooking.
  7. Add tomatoes and tomato paste and blend well, until excess liquid is evaporated.
  8. Stir in pasta sauce, bring to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 15 - 20 minutes.
  9. Place water on to boil and add pasta once boiling.
  10. Drain pasta once cooked.
  11. Spray the bottom of the lasagne dish lightly with olive oil.
  12. Spread half of the pasta on to the lasagne dish.
  13. Top evenly with meat sauce.
  14. Spread remaining pasta into the dish.
  15. Add the remaining meat mixture, then top with white sauce. (See instructions below.)
  16. Cover with foil and bake in oven for 15 minutes.
  17. Remove foil and cook until the top is golden.
White Sauce
  1. Chop butter roughly and place in a microwave jug and add flour.
  2. Cook for approx 45 seconds on high in microwave.
  3. Stir vigorously to make a smooth paste.
  4. Add milk, stir again and cook in microwave for 5 minutes.
  5. Stir again, getting lumps out, particularly from the bottom.
  6. Cook for approximately another 2 minutes.
  7. Keep going like this until the mixture is smooth and thick.
Recipe by Planning With Kids at https://planningwithkids.com/2010/01/11/easy-pasta-bake-recipe/