A very good friend and fellow slimmer of mine came up with the majority of this recipe (and she will understand the title of this post!). This is one of those recipes that really shows the ease of Slimming World in that nothing apart from the cheese needs to be weighed or measured and so in theory this can serve as many or as few people as you like. The main flavours are simply cheese and tomato which helps to satiate my frequent cravings for the flavours of a good home baked pizza! The intense tomato flavour of the passata together with the distinct creamy intensity of the feta really help to make this a tasty and satisfying meal that can be put together with the minimum of effort. And, if you use the feta cheese as a Healthy Extra it’s completely Syn free!
Ingredients (I have given the quantities I use for 2 people but, apart from the cheese, add more to serve more or if you’re extra hungry!)
- One pack of Tesco Mediterranean Roasting Vegetables (£1.50) or a courgette, a red onion and a handful of cherry tomatoes, all roughly chopped.
- Fry Light spray
- 42g feta cheese per person (so 84g for 2 people here)
- Dried pasta shapes (I don’t weigh this out but just go with what looks to be the right amount for how hungry I am – it’s all free on Extra Easy!)
- Half a bottle of passata
- 1 tablespoon mixed herbs
Method
- Preheat the oven to 220˚C.
- Tip the tray of Tesco vegetables or the roughly chopped ones into a baking dish. Spray them liberally with Fry Light spray and put them in the oven for 30 minutes.
- Chop the feta cheese into bite sized cubes.
- After the vegetables have been cooking for 30 minutes, remove them from the oven and sprinkle over the cubed feta. Place them back in the oven for a further 10 minutes.
- Whilst the vegetables have their last 10 minutes of cooking, place enough dried pasta for the number of people you are feeding into a pan of boiling water to cook.
- In another pan, place the passata and mixed herbs. Leave the pan on a very low heat and stir occasionally.
- Once the pasta has boiled for about 8 minutes (at which point it should be cooked!) drain the water away. Then, pour over the passata and mixed herbs and stir thoroughly through the pasta.
- Remove the vegetables and feta from the oven and transfer to the pan with the pasta and sauce using a draining spoon and stir everything thoroughly.
- Transfer to your serving bowls and enjoy!
