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Pasta bake recipe help please!
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Pengwern16
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Good morning.
I have some leftover chicken in the fridge after we had roast chicken on Sunday night. I also have a packet of bacon opened and want to make a pasta bake for supper tonight.
I've got passata in the cupboard, onions, garlic and all the herbs and spices to make a tomato pasta sauce. I've also got plenty of pasta (of course!) and mature cheese to grate over the pasta bake.
My question is, how can I make the passata based pasta sauce more 'creamy'? Could I add milk to it or could I make a white sauce and add passata to it?
We've had macaroni cheese quite a lot recently (with leftover ham from SC cooked joint - yum!) so would like to make a more tomatoey sauce this time, but don't want it to be too watery (which is what happened last time I cooked something similar with tinned tomatoes.
Any advice gratefully received!
Lowri x
I have some leftover chicken in the fridge after we had roast chicken on Sunday night. I also have a packet of bacon opened and want to make a pasta bake for supper tonight.
I've got passata in the cupboard, onions, garlic and all the herbs and spices to make a tomato pasta sauce. I've also got plenty of pasta (of course!) and mature cheese to grate over the pasta bake.
My question is, how can I make the passata based pasta sauce more 'creamy'? Could I add milk to it or could I make a white sauce and add passata to it?
We've had macaroni cheese quite a lot recently (with leftover ham from SC cooked joint - yum!) so would like to make a more tomatoey sauce this time, but don't want it to be too watery (which is what happened last time I cooked something similar with tinned tomatoes.
Any advice gratefully received!
Lowri x
Cymru am Byth!
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Hi there
If you use passata... I add marscapone to mine...failing that any creamy philli type cheese, soft goats cheese -they will all leave you with a tomato sauce -but creamy and not acidic ..in fact Im doing a pasta bake tonight -using whoopsed soft goats cheeses lol
hope that helps-6 -8 -3 -1.5 -2.5 -3 -1.5-3.50 -
You could try adding a soft cheese as mrsmcawber says or even just stiring your hard cheese into the sauce so it combines and melts makes a change. The other I do is add cream or creme fraiche. Never tried adding milk. If a sauce looks a bit watery when I make it I tend to add a bit of tomato puree or gravy granules but you shouldn't find this a problem with passata so much.
Jaycee x0 -
I quite often add a can of soup, cream of chicken or mushroom to make my tomato sauce creamy.Must learn not to count chickens before they are hatched!!!!:D
Every day is a new challenge not a new problem!:p
SW start 08/01/14 4/21lbs (1st target) :j0 -
Could you use quark?0
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make a basic white sauce, then put thin layer of this in bottom of dish, shredded chicken and diced fried bacon on top,
then passata sauce with some herbs then pasta (any type already cooked/lasagne sheets uncooked) and keep layering like a lasagne, finishing with layer of pasta, topped with white sauce and cheese!!£5000 debt cleared thanks to MSE advice :money:0
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