Jamie Oliver's twist on pasta bake has families raving that 'it's delicious'

We're ever connected the lookout for caller household repast ideas and this twist connected a classical pasta cook from Jamie Oliver has sent parents into a frenzy - and it's truthful simple

For galore parents, creating midweek meals that are speedy to prepare, nutritious, tasty and kid-friendly tin look similar a daunting task.

However, this twist connected the classical pasta cook from personage cook Jamie Oliver is definite to beryllium a hit, with families who person tried it calling it "delicious". The quality of this crockery is its flexibility - you tin easy substitute ingredients you already person successful your fridge if you don't person clip to shop.

Jamie's cardinal proposal for this recipe is not to afloat navigator the pasta successful the saucepan, allowing it to decorativeness disconnected perfectly successful the oven. In a video shared connected his YouTube channel, Jamie describes this crockery arsenic the "most delicious, straightforward pasta bake" that transforms "the mundane pre-bought ail breadstuff into a happening of joy: the astir astonishing ail breadstuff crumb."

This crunchy, flavour-packed topping gives the accepted crockery a unsocial twist. One idiosyncratic who tried the look commented connected the video: "I made this contiguous for the kids! It was a hit! I added immoderate chilly pulverization for much vigor and immoderate sweetener to chopped the sourness of the tomato. The breadstuff crumb topping was a large summation to this yummy dish".

Another said of the dish: "simple ingredients, casual to make, delicious."

Ingredients:

• 500g dried pasta
• 3 x 400g tins of plum tomatoes
• 50g Parmesan cheese
• 8 cubes of frozen spinach
• 2 leeks

Method

Jamie starts by making a ail breadstuff crumb, ripping up fractional a loaf of shop-bought ail breadstuff and blending it into good breadcrumbs. Then helium sets the breadcrumbs speech and begins making the condiment successful a sauté pan, drizzling successful immoderate olive lipid and frying 2 finely sliced cloves of garlic.

He past chops immoderate caller basil and adds it to the cookware with dried oregano, letting it each mildly fry until it smells "really fragrant". Next, helium chops leeks and adds them to the cookware for astir 10 minutes, seasoning with brackish and capsicum and stirring until they person softened. If they commencement to brown, helium advises turning down the heat.

While the leeks are cooking, you should adhd your pasta to boiling, salted h2o successful your saucepan. Let it navigator for 8 minutes oregon so, but for the champion results don't fto it navigator each the way. When you are draining the pasta, support 1 mugful of the h2o backmost for later. Now your leeks are soft, adhd successful your tins of chopped tomatoes.

To "use each past bit", Jamie recommends filling the tins up halfway with h2o and past adding this to the cookware you're cooking your condiment successful too. Bring the condiment to the boil, and past simmer it for astir 15 minutes, earlier putting the condiment into your blender.

Add the remainder of your caller basil and whiz until smooth, if you request to bash it successful batches due to the fact that of the size of your blender, that's fine. Once its creaseless enactment it successful your casserole cookware and disturbance done the cooked pasta.

If it needs loosening up past usage the pasta h2o you saved from earlier astatine this stage. Then popular your cubes of frozen spinach passim the casserole cookware and grate implicit your parmesan cheese.

Finally, adhd your ail breadcrumbs and cook the crockery until they are aureate - this should beryllium astir 20 minutes. Let it beryllium for a infinitesimal oregon 2 erstwhile you've taken it retired of the oven, and past simply tuck successful and enjoy.

Remember, if you privation to effort this with antithetic veggies, it volition enactment conscionable arsenic good truthful you tin swap retired the leeks and spinach for immoderate you person astatine home.