Super simple baked pasta

Last week, I came across the range of Leggo's Pasta Bake sauces at the supermarket. I read the recipe included on the side of a jar and it looked easy peasy to make. Plus my kids love eating baked pasta at Italian restaurants so I thought it was worth a try.

There are several flavours, I bought this one - the Pasta Bake sauce in Tomato, Ricotta and Spinach, a 575g jar.

We made the dish on Tuesday night, served it with corn on the cob. The kids loved it! So as usual, only when a recipe passes my kids' taste test, it gets blogged about here.

Ingredients

250g pasta
1 jar Leggo's Pasta Bake sauce
5 strips back bacon
1 cup mozzarella cheese

Baked Pasta with Bacon

1. Boil pasta until al dente. Drain.
2. Fry bacon and cut into small strips.
3. Place pasta in shallow casserole dish. Add bacon.
4. Add whole jar of sauce and mix well.
5. Cover top of pasta mixture with cheese.
6. Preheat oven to 200 degrees celcius.
7. Bake for 20 mins.

I used bacon but I guess you can substitute it with chicken pieces, mushrooms or whatever ingredients you like. I also used shell pasta but macaroni will work just as well.

Here is the final dish. There were no leftovers!

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