IT ALIVE! Its Baked Feta Pasta!
Hello everyone, this is Recifee. Today food recreation topic is about the trendy pasta in Tiktok called Baked Feta Pasta. This trend gone viral by this Tiktok video made by Liemessa. The word "feta" mean Greek white cheese which we all known as cream cheese.
The basic ingredients for the pasta sauce are cherry tomatoes, garlics and cream cheese. I do not fully followed from the Tiktok recipe because there is no further instructions on its quantities or how much. So I made the recipe by knowing the basic. The serving size for this recipe are for 3 to 4 people.
Here are the ingredients:
Any kind of pasta noddle 250-300 grams
1 block (250g) cream cheese
2 box of cherry tomatoes
4 garlic pips (Clove)
A dash of olive oil
Optional: BMC Chicken meatloaf
Seasoning or Spices( I used Salt, black pepper, Walker Bay garlic & herbs and cayenne)
From that ingredients list, we can already notice the mistake. But do not worry! Recifee is here to save the day and we will take about the mistake later in this blog.
An important cooking tip for cooking pasta noodle, make sure to season the boiling water with salt, making it taste like the salty sea and after cooking to al-dente (which just mean firm when bitten), save a cup of the pasta water before draining.
Start preheating the oven between 180C-200C. Using a glass casserole dish or an oven-proved dish, dazzled some olive oli, put in your cherry tomatoes, garlic pips and the cream cheese in the middle. Add your seasonings and baked for 20 - 25 mins or until some of the tomato skins start peeling it self.
While waiting, grilled the chicken meatloaf with olive oil until crispy. This is just optional but I do recommend doing grilled chicken breast. Maybe just simple seasoning like salt, pepper and some chilly powder just for that kick of spice.
Take off your dish from the oven and smash the feta tomato until it looks creamy. Now the mistake, I tasted to make sure the seasoning is right and all I can taste is cheese. Its just to much! and this coming from cheese lover.
So I Improvise, I was lucky to have a can of chopped tomatoes stored in the cabinet, I added about half of the canned tomatoes which is about 205.5g, you can also just estimate by adding and tasting along the way until you can taste the tomatoes. My recommendation If you guys are trying this recipe, make sure the cream cheese is only a half a block or increases the amount of tomatoes.
I also added about quarter cup of pasta water. This is the reason why its important to save the pasta water because it can enhance flavor; its salty without needing to add more salt on your pasta. In addition, the starch will also act as a thickening agent and added silly richness to your sauce.