Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Q. What do you do with a whopper like this?



A. You make Pasta Bake!

and just in case you are interested, here is the recipe:

200 g risoni
40 g butter
4 spring onions, thinly sliced
400 g (or more) zucchini (courgettes to some) grated
4 eggs
125 ml pouring cream
100 g ricotta cheese (not in a tub, but fresh in a wedge!)
100 g grated mozzarella cheese (also fresh, not pre grated in a packet)
175 g grated parmesan cheese (not ready grated, do it yourself lazybones)

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and meanwhile cook the risoni in a large saucepan of rapidly boiling salted water until al dente (11 minutes or thereabouts)   Drain well.
Melt the butter in a frying pan and saute the spring onion for l minute, then add the suzzhini and cook for a further 4 minutes and leave to cool slightly.
Put the risoni in a bowl and mix in the etggs, cream, ricotta, mozzarella and half the parmesan.   Stir in the zucchini mixture and season well.
Spoon into four 500 ml greased ovenproof dishes (I did it in one large one) and sprinkle the remaining parmesan over the top.
Bake for 25 - 30 minutes or until firm and golden.
Serve hot.

Guten Appetit, I will be doing this for my next Girls Day Lunch here, I think they will enjoy it.
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2 comments:

Heidi said...

Thanks for the recipe, I was going to ask you for it anyway

Hazel said...

This is a different one, the one you liked was called Zucchini Slice - coming shortly!