Pasta casserole is perhaps the most common casserole recipe. The dish will be an excellent breakfast, perfect for lunch and even for dinner. It requires a minimum of costs, but it delivers maximum pleasure.
The casserole is very helpful for housewives, especially when you need to quickly get ready for work and at the same time satisfyingly and tasty feed the family. To do this, you need to prepare the necessary ingredients or take what is lost in the refrigerator and send it to the oven or microwave.
By the way, the first casserole was prepared by a young American woman. She simply mixed the leftovers of various foods and baked in the oven. Apparently, it was something special, since the dish managed to go down in history.
The options for this dish may vary. The most popular is the pasta casserole. Italians call it lasagna and use special pasta for its preparation.
Pasta and cheese casserole can be delicious. She conquers gourmets with her tenderness and mouth-watering cheese crust. To prepare such a casserole, you will need: 200 g of pasta, 300 g of cheese, 3 tbsp. l. flour, 600 ml of milk, 40 g of butter, 2 carrots, salt / pepper - at your discretion.
In a saucepan, mix flour, milk, butter, add salt and pepper. The resulting mixture should be put on medium heat, and, stirring constantly, keep until thickened. Then you need to boil the pasta in salted water until half cooked and discard them in a colander. Grind cheese and carrots with a coarse grater. Divide the cheese into three equal parts, add one of them to the sauce. Then mix the pasta with carrots and sauce. Put half of the mixture in a greased form, sprinkle with grated cheese on top (1/3 part). Then another layer of pasta and a layer of cheese. Cover the form with foil and put in the oven for 25 minutes. Then the foil can be removed and baked for another 40 minutes, until a cheese crust forms.
In order for the casserole to be tasty, and at the same time to remain slim, it is better to choose hard varieties of pasta.
How can you add variety to your pasta casserole? Although the dish is everyday, you can give free rein to your imagination and try to add mushrooms, any vegetables, fish, meat, leftover sausages or ham. The main thing to remember is that the casserole will only work if it "keeps" the main taste. In this case, the taste is pasta. Everything else is just an additive, and there should be a little of it.
For casseroles, those products that are left over from yesterday's dinner, such as pasta and boiled chicken breast, are also perfect. To prepare the casserole, pour olive oil into a preheated frying pan and put finely chopped pieces of chicken breast and onion. Everything is fried until golden brown.
The form where the dish will be baked must be greased with oil and put pasta in it. You can do everything at once, you can do half, it all depends on how many layers there will be in the casserole. If you have time, you can take the time and make 4 layers, alternating pasta and chicken and onions. If not, put all the pasta at once, and onion-chicken layer on them.
Then beat 3 eggs in a bowl, add 100-150 g of sour cream (cream) and 50-70 ml of milk. Mix everything again, season with salt and pepper. Then add 100 g of cheese crushed on a coarse grater to the resulting mass.
Pour pasta with chicken with the resulting sauce and put in a preheated oven. The casserole will be ready in 30 minutes. It can be pulled out and, after cooling, cut into portions. A recipe like this would be a good idea for anyone looking for something quick and tasty.
