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Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, cheesy pasta bake with turkey, fennel & thyme. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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In the meantime prepare the other ingredients. Add tomatoes, wine, tomato paste, Italian seasonings, fennel seed and chili flakes. Add pasta to boiling water and cook according to package directions.
To begin with this recipe, we must 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:
- Make ready 225 g rigatoni pasta,
- Make ready 375 g 7% fat turkey thigh mince meat,
- Make ready 200 ml tomato passata,
- Get 1 small onion, chopped,
- Make ready 1-2 large tomatoes, chopped coarsely,
- Make ready 1 tbsp tomato puree paste,
- Get 2 tsp dried thyme,
- Prepare 1.5 tsp fennel seeds,
- Make ready Cracked black pepper, to season,
- Take 1 tsp sugar,
- Make ready Salt to season and for pasta cooking water,
- Make ready Vegetable oil for frying
- Take To top:
- Take 60 g Grated mature cheddar cheese (I used 30% less fat)
It's got tender pasta shells, sharp cheddar cheese, salsa and a hint of lime. It's a simple meal that packs a real punch of flavor. The pasta is tender and the sauce is creamy and cheesy with a little bit of heat and a hint of lime. In a large mixing bowl, add ground turkey, red onion, garlic cloves, fresh spinach, parmesan cheese, eggs, oregano, basil, parsley, salt, fennel seeds, and black pepper.
Steps 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! :)
Using your hands, mix all the ingredients. How do you bake Turkey Meatballs? While the turkey is cooking, place the carrots, onions, garlic, fennel bulb, and kale in batches into a food processor, and pulse until they are chopped into small, bite-size pieces. I followed this recipe to the letter with the exception of adding some fennel seeds (just something we always like in red sauce). Honestly if I didn t know differently I would think this was made with ground beef instead of ground turkey and this sauce breaks down really well nutritionally love that!
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