How to Make an Easy One Dish Vegetable Pasta Bake

You absolutely need this vegetable pasta bake in your life right now! Not only is it crazy good for you – but it’s packed with veggies, requires NO precooking whatsoever and tastes absolutely flippin’ delicious!! It’s also both vegetarian and vegan, making it ideal if you want a sneaky veggie boost.

Here is what you will need to serve 4.

• 1/2 Red Pepper, Finely Diced
• 1/2 Yellow Pepper, Finely Diced
• 1/2 Courgette, Finely Diced
• 1/2 Small Onion, Finely Diced
• 200g (7 oz) Dried Penne Pasta
• 1 x 400g (14 oz) Tin Chopped Tomatoes
• 400ml (1 + 2/3 Cup) Vegetable Stock
• 2 tsp Italian Seasoning
• Salt & Pepper
• 30g (1/3 Cup) Grated Vegan Cheese, Optional *
• 1 tbsp Dried Breadcrumbs, Optional

Essential Equipment

• 26 cm Round Oven Proof Dish (or similar)

*You can absolutely use regular cheese if you don’t need to make it vegan.

First thing’s first, let’s preheat that oven to 200°C/Fan 180°C.

Now onto the veggies! If you haven’t already, finely dice the red pepper (1/2), yellow pepper (1/2), courgette (1/2) and onion (1/2 small). Try and keep them less than 1 cm square, particularly the courgette. This ensures it will cook through.

Tip all that wonderful veg into your oven proof dish then add in that pasta (200g | 7 oz).

Then stir in the chopped tomatoes (1 x 400g | 14 oz tin), vegetable stock (400ml | 1 + 2/3 Cup) and Italian seasoning (2 tsp).

Add a generous helping of salt and pepper then give it all a really good stir.

Finally, cover it with foil and bake for 25 minutes in the preheated oven. It should be about three quarters cooked when you take off the foil.

Give it a really good stir to make sure everything will cook evenly then scatter over the vegan cheese (30g | 1/3 Cup) and 1 tbsp of dried breadcrumbs.

Pop back into the oven, uncovered, for approx 15-20 mins to allow the pasta and vegetables to finish cooking and the vegan cheese/breadcrumbs to become golden.

Of course you can always use regular cheese if you don’t require it to be suitable for vegans.

If you choose not to add the “cheese”/breadcrumbs, simply remove the foil and cook for a further 15-20 mins until the pasta and vegetables are cooked through.

And there you have it! A beautiful, healthy meal that will not only please the family but please your body too!

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Enjoy!