Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade Easy Italian pasta bake

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, easy italian pasta bake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Italian pasta bake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Easy Italian pasta bake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy italian pasta bake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Italian pasta bake:

1. Make ready 300 gr pasta
2. Get Grana Padano cheese
3. Prepare Tomato passata
4. Take Olive oil
5. Prepare leaves Basil
6. Get For the beschamel
7. Prepare 500 ml whole milk
8. Get 50 gr unsalted butter
9. Make ready 50 gr all-purpose flour
10. Get Salt

Steps to make Easy Italian pasta bake:

1. Cook the pasta in salted boiling water until almost fully cooked (it will complete to cook in the oven)
2. In the meantime, prepare the bechamel sauce. Warm up the milk, then melt the butter into a saucepan, and add the flour to it, mixing it together. When smooth, start adding the milk and mix until there are no clumps left. On medium heat, add salt to taste and keep stirring until the sauce thickens. Turn off the heat and set aside.
3. Drain the pasta, then put it back into its pan on medium heat. Add the tomato passata (as much as you prefer) and the olive oil (about 3 tablespoons). Stir everything well for a few minutes, then turn off the heat.
4. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F)
5. Grab a loafpan, and begin making layers (they should be only 2). Start with a layer of pasta, then bechamel sauce, then repeat. The last layer has to be bechamel. Put a couple handfuls of grated grana padano cheese on top, then add some basil leaves.
6. Now that you assembled everything, put the loafpan into the oven for about 20/30 minutes or until the cheese on top becomes golden and crispy.
7. You made it! I hope you like my recipe, buon appetito! :)

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