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Easy pea and bacon pasta bake for four

Smoked bacon gives this super easy, all-in-one pasta bake bags of flavour

Smoked bacon gives this super easy, all-in-one pasta bake bags of flavour

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Cooking Time

Cook: 50 Mins

Cooking Time

Serves: 4

Cooking Time

Price: 67p per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 446g serving contains

Energy
2315kj
553kcal
28%
Fat
12.9g
Med
18%
Saturates
4.9g
Med
24%
Sugars
9.4g
Med
10%
Salt
0.67g
Med
11%
2
of your 5-a-day
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
519kj/124kcal

Ingredients

1tbsp rapeseed oil

1 onion, peeled and chopped

2 rashers smoked back bacon, chopped

400g tin chopped tomatoes

500g fresh egg penne

200g frozen peas

75g mozzarella, drained and chopped

Method

1
Preheat the oven to 180C/160C Fan/Gas 4.
2
Heat the oil in a pan on a medium heat. Fry the onion for 5 mins until soft, stirring frequently so it doesn’t catch and burn. Add the bacon, turn the heat up a little and fry for another 5 mins until starting to crisp.
3
Tip in the tomatoes, then fill the tin with water and pour this into the pan. Season with black pepper, then simmer for 5 mins. Stir in the penne and frozen peas, then tip into an ovenproof baking dish about 30cm x 25cm. It should be quite saucy as the penne will soak up some liquid when cooking.
4
Stir in the mozzarella and cover with foil. Bake for 25 mins, then remove the foil and bake for a further 5 mins until the pasta is tender and the cheese melted.

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