Recipe
Baked Fata Pasta
Ingredients
- 2 pints grape tomatoes
- 5 garlic cloves halved
- ½ cup olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 8 oz feta black
- 10 oz dry pasta of choice
- 8 cups spinach
- ¼ fresh basil chopped (optional)
- ¼ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
- ½ cup pasta water
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Add grape tomatoes and garlic to a baking dish. Toss with olive oil and a few pinches of salt and pepper. Place feta in the center of the tomatoes, turn to coat with oil.
- Bake in the center of the preheated oven for 30 minutes.
- Then remove the baking dish, raise the oven rack up to upper 1/3 of the oven. Return the baking dish to the oven and increase the oven to 450°F. Bake until tomatoes and cheese are starting to brown slightly, about 10 minutes longer.
- Meanwhile boil pasta to al dente in salted water according to the time listed on the pasta package.
- Reserve 1/2 cup pasta water and right before draining, pour and submerge spinach in with the pasta (it should wilt almost instantly). Drain pasta and spinach.
- Smash the tomatoes, garlic, oil and feta together with the back of a wooden spoon. Toss pasta in with mixture along with basil, parsley, and red pepper flakes.
- Thin mixture with a few Tbsp of pasta water at a time to reach desired consistency. Season with salt and pepper as needed.
