Baked Noodle Casserole (Lapshevnik)
A great alternative to the same old pasta side dish! Lapshevnik is a simple, tasty, tender, and hearty casserole of pasta and eggs that you can serve as a dish on its own or as a side for chicken, meat, or fish. It's quick and easy to make.
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Baked Noodle Casserole (Lapshevnik)
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 20 %
11 g
Fats 20 %
11 g
Carbohydrates 60 %
33 g
275 kcal
GI:
3
/
97
/
0
- How do you make a baked noodle casserole? Get the ingredients ready from the list. You can use any pasta for the casserole — shaped pasta, vermicelli — but long spaghetti is the most popular choice for this dish. The main thing is to use durum-wheat pasta, so the boiled pasta doesn't turn to mush after baking. Boil the pasta in salted water per the package instructions. Cook the pasta until al dente — after cooking it should still be a bit firm; usually about 8 minutes is enough. Drain the water from the pot and tip the pasta into a colander so the liquid drains off completely. Transfer the pasta to a buttered baking dish. Crack the eggs into a deep bowl, add salt and ground black pepper to taste, and, if you like, other spices and seasonings — say, paprika or Italian or Provençal herbs. Whisk the eggs with a whisk until the mixture is uniform (the whites should fully break up). Pour the cream into the bowl with the egg mixture and mix again. Instead of cream, you can use sour cream thinned with water, or whole milk. Pour the cream-egg mixture over the pasta in the baking dish. Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C) and put the dish in for 20 minutes. The baking time depends on the size of the dish and the amount of ingredients, as well as on how your oven works. If you like, near the end of baking you can sprinkle the top of the casserole with grated hard cheese — it'll form an appetizing golden crust on the surface of the casserole and make the dish more fragrant and tastier. After sprinkling on the cheese, put the casserole back in the oven for 5–7 minutes so the cheese melts well. Let the finished casserole cool a little, cut it into portions, and serve it with a sauce and fresh vegetables, or with a cutlet or chops. Enjoy!
- For how to cook pasta properly, how to cook it al dente, how to pick a quality product to avoid disappointment, and much more, see the article "Pasta — the fine points of choosing it and the secrets of cooking it."
- If you use ready-made spice blends, be sure to read the ingredients on the package. These blends often already contain salt — take that into account, or you risk over-salting the dish.
- Keep in mind that everyone's oven is different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from what's given in the recipe. To make any baked dish a success, take advantage of this helpful information on how ovens behave!
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Buttermilk - 36 kcal/100g
- Cream 20% fat - 300 kcal/100g
- Cream 10% fat - 120 kcal/100g
- Cream - 300 kcal/100g
- Dutch cheese - 352 kcal/100g
- Swiss cheese - 335 kcal/100g
- Russian cheese - 366 kcal/100g
- Kostroma cheese - 345 kcal/100g
- Yaroslavl cheese - 361 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese 50% fat - 356 kcal/100g
- Sovetsky cheese - 400 kcal/100g
- Steppe cheese - 362 kcal/100g
- Uglich cheese - 347 kcal/100g
- Poshekhonye cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Lambert cheese - 377 kcal/100g
- Appenzeller cheese 50% fat - 400 kcal/100g
- Cheshire cheese 50% fat - 363 kcal/100g
- Edam cheese 40% fat - 340 kcal/100g
- Cheese with mushrooms 50% fat - 395 kcal/100g
- Emmental cheese 45% fat - 420 kcal/100g
- Gouda cheese 45% fat - 356 kcal/100g
- Amadeus cheese - 364 kcal/100g
- Dom Blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360 kcal/100g
- Lo Spalmino cheese - 61 kcal/100g
- Etorki cheese (sheep, hard) - 401 kcal/100g
- White cheese - 100 kcal/100g
- Full-fat yellow cheese - 260 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Kaunas cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Latvian cheese - 316 kcal/100g
- Limburger cheese - 327 kcal/100g
- Lithuanian cheese - 250 kcal/100g
- Lake cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Gruyère cheese - 396 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Unsalted premium butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted farmhouse butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Salted farmhouse butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Clarified butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 80 kcal/100g
- Spaghetti - 338 kcal/100g
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