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Pasta in sour cream with cheese in the oven

Baked Pasta in Sour Cream with Cheese

Delicious, budget-friendly, simple, and fast—a family dinner in 30 minutes. This baked pasta in sour cream with cheese is just the thing when you're tired of plain boiled pasta. A rich cheese-and-egg topping pairs beautifully with the noodles. It's an easy dish that even beginner cooks can pull off!

Maria

Recipe author

Pasta in sour cream with cheese in the oven

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Pasta

300

Hard cheese

200

Sour cream

100

Cream cheese (spreadable)

100

Eggs

Garlic

Ground black pepper

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 24 % 14 g

Fats 29 % 17 g

Carbohydrates 47 % 27 g

296 kcal

GI: 4 / 96 / 0

Cooking method

Cooking time: 45 min

Step 1:

How do you make baked pasta in sour cream with cheese? It's a very simple dish. Start by gathering the ingredients on the list. Use any pasta shape you like—elbows, bow ties, shells, and so on; I used orecchiette. Just make sure it's good-quality durum-wheat pasta. Feel free to use your favorite seasonings beyond the ones listed. For the cream cheese, use a plain, soft, spreadable kind with no add-ins.
Step 2:

Grate the hard cheese on the medium or small holes of a box grater.
Step 3:

Cook the pasta in plenty of salted water until al dente—that is, 1 minute shy of the package time. Pasta cooked this way stays slightly firm at the center and will finish cooking in the oven. Drain the pasta in a colander and let all the water run off.
Step 4:

Add the sour cream, a third of the grated cheese, and the pressed garlic to the pasta.
Step 5:

Mix everything well.
Step 6:

Combine the remaining grated cheese with the cream cheese and eggs and mix thoroughly. If you'd like a thinner sauce, add another egg. You can swap the cream cheese for ricotta or another soft cheese to taste.
Step 7:

Spread the pasta in a greased baking dish and level it out.
Step 8:

Spread the cheese-and-egg mixture over the top. Bake the pasta in an oven preheated to 350°F (180°C) for about 20 minutes, until a golden cheese crust forms. Enjoy!

For more on how to cook pasta properly, get it perfectly al dente, choose a quality product, and avoid disappointment, see the article "Pasta — choosing it and cooking it well."
Keep in mind that every oven is different. Your temperature and time may vary from what's given here. For reliable results with any baked dish, get to know how your own oven behaves!
Since everyone's sense of salty, sweet, bitter, spicy, sour, and hot is different, always add seasonings to your own taste! If you're using a seasoning for the first time, remember that some are especially easy to overdo (chili pepper, for example).