Cook 16 ounces of your favorite tube like pasta, ziti, penne or rigatoni work well. While the pasta is cooking grate three cups of cheese (lightly packed). I like to use at least three to four types of cheese: cheddar, mozzarella, Parmesan, Swiss...it's a good way to use leftover cheese rinds. Crush and peel six to eight cloves of garlic. Here's my secret, I use a jar of Trader Joe's Alfredo pasta sauce and a equivalent amount of milk, about two cups each.
Once the pasta has cooked, drain it in a colander. In the pan you used to cook the pasta, saute the garlic in some olive oil for a few minutes. Remove the pan from the stove, add the Alfredo sauce, the cheese, the milk and stir well. Now add the drained pasta and mix again.Pour into a buttered baking dish and sprinkle with 1/4 cup of bread crumbs. You can make one large 9 by 13 pan or two smaller round ones as pictured below.
Bake at 350 for 30 minutes uncovered.
This is great with some cauliflower thrown in.
ReplyDeleteI added about two cups of 1-1.5 inch cauliflower florets and smaller stem chuncks to the garlic and cooked them a bit until some of them browned. Then followed the rest of the recipe- except I accidentally cooked it an extra 10-15 mins which I think helped cooked the cauli perfectly!
And I used whole wheat shell pasta- still tasty!