Cheesy Pasta Bake With Turkey, Fennel & Thyme
Cheesy Pasta Bake With Turkey, Fennel & Thyme

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, cheesy pasta bake with turkey, fennel & thyme. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Add oil to a medium saucepan and once hot add in the onions and begin to gently fry, turn down the heat a little. After frying until turning translucent add in the turkey mince meat. Fry off until almost cooked through then season well with salt and plenty of cracked black pepper. Take the fennel seeds and grind them in a mortar and pestle.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cheesy pasta bake with turkey, fennel & thyme using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cheesy Pasta Bake With Turkey, Fennel & Thyme:
  1. Take 225 g rigatoni pasta,
  2. Make ready 375 g 7% fat turkey thigh mince meat,
  3. Make ready 200 ml tomato passata,
  4. Take 1 small onion, chopped,
  5. Prepare 1-2 large tomatoes, chopped coarsely,
  6. Take 1 tbsp tomato puree paste,
  7. Get 2 tsp dried thyme,
  8. Take 1.5 tsp fennel seeds,
  9. Make ready Cracked black pepper, to season,
  10. Make ready 1 tsp sugar,
  11. Take Salt to season and for pasta cooking water,
  12. Get Vegetable oil for frying
  13. Prepare To top:
  14. Get 60 g Grated mature cheddar cheese (I used 30% less fat)

Add the broccoli, turkey, prepared pasta, milk and ⅓ cup parmesan cheese, stir to combine. Stir in salt, pepper and turkey. Pour mushroom/turkey mixture into prepared baking dish. In the meantime prepare the other ingredients.

Instructions to make Cheesy Pasta Bake With Turkey, Fennel & Thyme:
  1. Add oil to a medium saucepan and once hot add in the onions and begin to gently fry, turn down the heat a little. After frying until turning translucent add in the turkey mince meat. Fry off until almost cooked through then season well with salt and plenty of cracked black pepper. Take the fennel seeds and grind them in a mortar and pestle.
  2. Add in the ground fennel seeds plus the thyme. Stir through. Next add the tomato paste and the passata. Stir through. Bring to a simmer. Add in the sugar and stir through. Simmer on a medium low heat.
  3. Begin to cook the pasta according to packet instructions in salted water. Preheat your oven to 180 (fan). Once the pasta is almost cooked remove from the heat and drain off the water. Take your oven proof dish and spoon in the pasta then add the sauce. Gently mix through until the pasta is coated evenly.
  4. Scatter over your grated cheese then place in the hot oven and cook for around 10 minutes. Then to finish place beneath a hot grill until the cheese is golden and bubbling.
  5. Serve up and enjoy! :)

Pour mushroom/turkey mixture into prepared baking dish. In the meantime prepare the other ingredients. Tip the pasta, chopped parsley leaves and mozzarella into the tomato sauce, stir well and transfer to a large baking dish. Serve with a green salad, if you like. Warm and filling, pasta bakes are the perfect quick fix to mid-week meal dilemmas.

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