Veggie pasta bake

gratin de pâte aux légumes
a hint of garlic and a generous vegan cheese

There's always room for pasta
 
One of my favourite pasta dishes, ideally with veggie in ratatouille.

Ingredients, 2-3 servings

150 g organic pasta, cooked (or leftover pasta)
3 ladles of ratatouille*
7 vegan melting cheese slices

Method

Pre-heat the oven for baking (mine is 240C/Fan).
Cook pasta according to package directions, drain, and add to a large baking dish.
Spread the ratatouille evenly over pasta.
Top with cheese and bake for 15-20 min until golden.
Serve with a mixed or a simple green salad.
 

* If there is no ratatouille,

make an express dish of stewed vegetables:
 
2 tbsp vegetable oil (sunflower, I don't use olive oil anymore)
2 cloves garlic, diced
1 onion, diced
7 white mushrooms, sliced
half bell pepper, red or green (optional)
2 carrots, grated
4 tomatoes peeled and diced
1 zucchini, diced
1 sprig thyme, 1 rosemary, 1 dried bay leaf (optional)
1 pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/2 tsp cane sugar
7 slices vegan melted cheese

Variations
  • can add bell pepper (red or green), eggplant..., if desired
  • can skip or replace any of the veggies with whatever's on hand
  • replace stir-fried vegetables by roasted/grilled vegetables: put them on pasta and then add sauce and cheese

Method

 After cooking pasta, set aside some pasta water.
  1. Heat up sunflower oil* in a frying pan.
  2. Sweat garlic, and onion for about 2 min.
  3. Add mushrooms and stir fry 5 min.
  4. Add carrots, tomatoes and stir fry 5 min.
  5. Add zucchini, thyme, rosemary, bay leaf, salt, sugar, pepper and stir fry 5 min.
  6. Add a half a glass of pasta cooking water.
  7. Stir, bring to the boil, and cook over low heat for 7 min.
  8. Stir and turn off the heat.
  9. Spread the sauce evenly over pasta.
  10. Top with cheese and bake for 20 min until golden.
  11. Serve with a mixed or a simple green salad.

* I don't use olive oil anymore: test results published by the National Consumer Institute, found that 23 of 24 olive oils had traces of plasticizer and hydrocarbon (even organic ones)...

 
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