Easy Cheesy Pasta Bake with Peas, Broccoli and Nutmeg

Name: Easy Cheesy Pasta Bake with Peas, Broccoli and Nutmeg
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 100g Grana Padano, grated; 400g Pasta Shells; 1 lemon, zest and juice; 1 ball Mozzarella, or grated cheddar cheese; 250g Mascarpone; 2 tsp Wholegrain Mustard; 150g Frozen Peas; 0.25 of Freshly Grated Nutmeg; 1 head Broccoli, cut into florets and stalk thinly sliced; 1 pinch Crushed Chillies

by Fliss Freeborn

Vegetarian

4.2

5m prep time

35m total time

Easy level

10 ingredients

Easy Cheesy Pasta Bake with Peas, Broccoli and Nutmeg recipe by Fliss Freeborn

All the comfort of a classic mac n cheese, but a little healthier - and with the advantage of not having to make a separate roux. You’ve got three types of cheese going in here, but there’s also some lovely couple of cheffy lifts with the parsley, nutmeg and mustard too.

Method

Based on 4 servings, adjust as needed.

Step 1

Preheat the oven at 220°C/200°C fan. Boil the pasta in heavily salted water for 10 minutes or until just al-dente (it finishes cooking fully in the oven). While the pasta cooks, grate your Italiona hard cheese and chop the broccoli into little florets, around 1-2 cm across. Add the frozen peas and the broccoli to the pasta around 2 minutes before it’s fully cooked.

Step 2

Drain the pasta, peas and broccoli, reserving around half a mug of the cooking liquid. Return the pasta to a low heat, and mix in the mascarpone, the grated grana padano, around 1/4 of a nutmeg (if cooking for 4), grated, the mustard, lemon zest and a generous squeeze of juice, adding the remaining pasta water periodically to loosen the mix. Season with plenty of black pepper and a few cruahed chilli flakes if you like.

Step 3

Transfer the pasta to a dish and tear over the mozzarella (or sprinkle with grated cheddar. Bake for 15 minutes, or until golden and bubbling on the top.

Ingredients
Based on 4 servings

100g Grana Padano, grated 1 x Sainsbury's Grana Padano Cheese 200g
400g Pasta Shells 1 x Sainsbury's Conchiglie Shells Pasta 500g
1 lemon, zest and juice 1 x Sainsbury's Lemons
1 ball Mozzarella, or grated cheddar cheese 1 x Stamford Street Co. Mozzarella Cheese Ball 125g
250g Mascarpone 1 x Sainsbury's Mascarpone Cheese 250g
2 tsp Wholegrain Mustard 1 x Sainsbury's Wholegrain Mustard 180g
150g Frozen Peas 1 x Sainsbury's Petits Pois 910g
0.25 of Freshly Grated Nutmeg 1 x Sainsbury's Whole Nutmeg 36g
1 head Broccoli, cut into florets and stalk thinly sliced 1 x Sainsbury's Broccoli Loose
1 pinch Crushed Chillies 1 x Sainsbury's Crushed Chillies 32g