I’m drained. You’re drained. After we get house from work, college or different tiring actions, we’re drained. And even worse, we’re hungry.
I don’t keep in mind Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell off the high of my head, however I’m fairly positive certainly one of them contains assembling a meal whereas drained and hungry.
The simple means out of this predicament is frozen hen nuggets or a microwave quesadilla, however I’ve all the time been choosy about my meals. I’m additionally a giant fan of greens and barely obsessive about getting my protein in, so the toddler meals simply don’t minimize it anymore.
A number of years in the past, Gigi Hadid’s tomato feta pasta recipe went viral on TikTok. I noticed it and thought it appeared underwhelming, however after I was finding out overseas and struggling to search out meals that I might make with restricted fridge house, restricted cooking house, restricted elements and restricted utensils, I made a decision to offer it a attempt.
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The recipe is basically only a block of feta, a carton of cherry tomatoes and olive oil all baked collectively and combined into pasta. I jazzed it up slightly by including some frozen diced onions and garlic powder, however as soon as I acquired again to the United States, I kind of forgot about the recipe.
After some web browsing the different evening, I spotted I needed to boost my eating regimen slightly and add in additional fascinating veggie combos. I make a killer sandwich, however one can solely put issues between two slices of bread for thus many meals in a row.
I added a block of feta and a container of cherry tomatoes to my cart, however earlier than hitting “buy,” I threw in some bell peppers and broccoli, too.
When you learn my final EC Eats, I’m not nice with measurements. Not nice is an understatement. I truly imagine I’m above utilizing measurements, this perception stemming from the indisputable fact that I don’t like washing extra dishes than completely crucial.
So I provides you with this recipe in Type B phrases. Take it or go away it.
You have to:
- A block of feta
- Cherry tomatoes
- Bell pepper (shade of your selection)
- Broccoli
- Onion (I didn’t have this, however it will’ve been good)
- Olive oil
- Pasta (I used zoodles — frozen, duh)
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic powder (or precise garlic, if you happen to’re fancy)
- Purple pepper flakes (for pizazz)
First, chop up your bell peppers, broccoli and onion. You need to actually wash them first, however I perceive if you happen to don’t.
Toss them into a pleasant little oven-safe dish together with your cherry tomatoes. Pour a thick drizzle of olive oil over the high of all of your veggies. Bear in mind, the olive oil is extra afraid of you than you’re of it, so don’t skimp.
Pour all your spices over the high, and blend every part collectively together with your arms. Washing your veggies could also be negotiable, however washing your arms just isn’t, until you wish to be the subsequent sufferer of norovirus.
Then go forward and plop your feta block into the dish. Make certain it’s settled in properly, then pour extra olive oil over the high. You don’t have to drown your elements, however you desire a good quantity in there for taste and such.
I hope you learn my thoughts and preheated your oven to 400 levels earlier than this, as a result of now it’s time to bake your dish. I baked it for about 40 minutes, I feel. I imagine I put it in for half-hour and determined it wasn’t brown sufficient, so I simply left it in for one more 10.
When you could have about 10-Quarter-hour left on the timer, go forward and boil your pasta. I’m not going to inform you find out how to make pasta. I’m hoping you possibly can learn a field.
As soon as you are taking your sauce out of the oven, go forward and squish every part up with a giant spoon. When you plan to maintain a few of this as leftovers, I like to recommend pouring the sauce on high of your serving of noodles to eat it, then storing the noodles and sauce individually. In any other case, simply go forward and dump the noodles into the sauce dish.
I believed this was fairly fantastic-tasting, and even higher as a result of each ingredient could be bought at Aldi.
P.S. I’m nonetheless patiently ready on my invite to “Top Chef,” however I’m positive the letter simply acquired misplaced in the mail.
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