Cheesy pasta bake
By Ange
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 50 mins
Serves: 5
Cals 404/ C 52g/ P 23g/ F 14g
Ingredients
- 1tbsp olive oil
- 1 brown onion, diced
- 1 clove of garlic, minced
- 2 medium carrots, diced
- 1 cup pumpkin, diced
- 2 medium zucchini, diced
- 100g button mushrooms, quartered
- 400g tinned cannellini beans/white beans
- ½ cup peas and corn, thawed if frozen
- ½ cup vegetable stock
For the sauce
- ½ cup cashews, soaked in vegetable stock for 1hr or boiling water for 20 minutes
- 1 ½ cups coconut milk (canned)
- 25g nutritional yeast
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp smoked paprika
- ½ tsp salt
- 250g Barilla Red Lentil Pasta
Method
- Put the cashews in to soak.
- In a pan, fry the onion in the olive oil for 5 minutes, add the garlic and salt to taste and cook for a further 2 minutes.
- Add the carrot, pumpkin and stock and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until the vegetables soften.
- Add the zucchini, mushrooms, peas and corn and cook for a further 5-10 minutes.
- Add the cashews and all ingredients for the sauce to a blender or nutribullet and blitz until smooth. Add cornstarch to thicken or water/stock to thin as required.
- In a pot cook the pasta per instruction.
- Combine vegetables, pasta and sauce in an oven proof dish. Bake at 180 for 10-15 minutes.