Chickpea sauce pasta bake

Name: Chickpea sauce pasta bake
Cuisine: European, Italian, Mediterranean
Ingredients: 500 g penne pasta (or similar); 1 can chickpeas drained; 1 cauliflower chopped; 2 tomatoes cut in thirds; 2 chillies deseeded; 2 teaspoons garlic chopped; Ground black pepper; 200ml Buttermilk; 300 ml pasta water; 1 Chicken cooked, de-boned and chopped; 200 g Goat's cheese semi-hard chopped; Black olives pitted and halved; 1 spring onion sliced; Oregano handful, chopped; Coriander handful, chopped; Melting cheese such as cheddar or mozzarella

5 steps

Really delicious pasta, mostly healthy but tastes like it ain't.

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 03:36:16 GMT

Nutrition balance score

Great

Glycemic Index

Low

Glycemic Load

High

Nutrition per serving

Calories1078.2 kcal (54%)

Total Fat40.5 g (58%)

Carbs98.5 g (38%)

Sugars10.3 g (11%)

Protein77.8 g (156%)

Sodium577 mg (29%)

Fiber10.7 g (38%)

% Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet

Ingredients

5 servings

500gpenne pasta

2 teaspoonsgarlic

200mlbuttermilk

cooked, de-boned and chopped

200gGoat's cheese

such as cheddar or mozzarella

Instructions

Step 1

On a baking tray put cauliflower and tomatoes and salt them, include the chillies and then grill in the oven for 25 minutes in total, flipping them half way. Also, remove the chillies if they are starting to look black.

Step 2

Cook the pasta in salted water for 2 minutes fewer than the instructions say and save about 300 ml of the water.

Step 3

Put chickpeas and grilled veggies in the blender with garlic, pepper and butter milk. Start blending and slowly adding the pasta water until all ingredients can easily blend to finish the sauce.

Step 4

In a big roasting dish mix drained pasta, goat's cheese, olives, onion, chicken, origanum and sauce. Once that's mixed well, cover with melting cheese.

Step 5

Put roasting dish covered in the oven for 20 minutes at 220°C. Then, uncover and switch oven to grill to brown the cheese on top.