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Step-by-step baked tahini pasta
First, make your pasta sauce by adding all your sauce ingredients to a blender. Blend until smooth. Add more vegetable broth as needed. You are looking for the consistency of a smooth marinara sauce.
Next, add your undercooked pasta, broccoli, spinach, ⅔ of the mozzarella, spicy tahini sauce, salt, & pepper.
Toss well to mix.
Transfer to a 13x9 glass baking dish. Sprinkle with the remaining mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
Bake 25-30 minutes until heated through and cheese is melted.
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Spicy Tahini Baked Penne
Ingredients
Spicy Tahini Sauce
- ½ cup tahini
- ½-1 cup vegetable broth
- 1 jalapeno pepper
- 6 cloves garlic peeled
- 1 lemon juiced
Pasta
- 1 head broccoli separated into florets
- 8 oz. spinach
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 1 lb. pasta
- 8 oz. mozzarella shredded
- 15 oz. ricotta cheese
- ½ cup grated parmesan
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350F and bring a pot of water to boil for your pasta.
- In a blender, add your tahini, ½ cup of vegetable broth, half your jalapeno pepper, the 6 peeled garlic cloves, and lemon juice. Blend until smooth. Add more vegetable broth as needed. You are looking for the consistency of a smooth marinara sauce. Add the rest of the jalapeno pepper if you want it to be spicier.
- Cook your pasta 3 minutes less than suggested on the box. Drain and set aside.
- Mix your pasta, broccoli, spinach, ⅔ of the mozzarella, ricotta, spicy tahini sauce, salt, & pepper. Toss well to coat.
- Transfer to a 13x9 glass baking dish. Sprinkle with the remaining mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
- Bake 25-30 minutes until heated through and cheese is melted.
Lee
Where does the ricotta go? It’s not mentioned anywhere in the recipe
Candice
You add it in when you add the mozzarella. Sorry about that... correcting it now!