The Best Creamy Pasta Casserole Recipe

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Learn how to make The Best Creamy Pasta Casserole recipe easily at home with handy ingredients and in just a few minutes it will be ready.

This pasta casserole is such a hearty, tender, and super easy-to-make recipe. So, don’t hesitate to try it for your kids and impress them, they will absolutely love it.

So, you will fall in love with this incredible dish, cheesy, creamy, and comforting, you can accompany it with whatever you want. Even though this dish on its own is enough.

Bon appetit!

Ingredients :

The Pasta :

  • 400g of penne pasta
  • 1 tbsp of olive oil
  • 1 tsp of salt

The chicken :

  • 300g of boneless chicken
  • 1 tsp of cumin
  • 1 tsp of garlic powder
  • 1/4 tsp of salt
  • 2 tbsp of olive oil
  • 1 cup of colored bell pepper (Green, yellow, and red)

The white sauce :

  • 3 cups of full-cream milk
  • 2 and 1/2 tbsp of plain flour
  • 2 tbsp of butter
  • 1 tsp of chili flakes
  • 1 tsp of black pepper
  • 1 tsp of salt
  • 1 tsp of oregano
  • 1 tsp of thyme
  • 1/2 cup of grated mozzarella cheese

The topping:

  • 1/2 cup of mozzarella cheese
  • 1 tsp of oregano
  • 1 tsp of thyme

Directions :

Cooking the pasta :

  1. Firstly, in boiling water, add 1 tsp of salt, and 1 tbsp of olive oil, add your penne pasta, and stir well. Then, boil for about 10 minutes, or until soft.
  2. Once boiled, strain the water and set aside.

Making the white sauce:

  1. In a saucepan at medium heat, add 3 cups of milk, 2 and 1/2 tbsp of plain flour, 2 tbsp of butter, 1 tsp of salt, and 1 tsp of black pepper. Then, cook until the mixture gets thick.
  2. Now, add 1 tsp of chili flakes, 1 tsp of oregano, 1 tsp of thyme, and 1/2 cup of grated mozzarella cheese. Then, give it a good mix until the cheese is melted. Set aside.

Cooking the chicken:

  1. In a skillet at medium heat, add 2 tbsp of oil, 300g of boneless chicken, 1/4 tsp of salt, 1 tsp of cumin, and 1 tsp of garlic powder. Then, cook until the chicken is tender.
  2. Now, add 1 cup of colored bell pepper, and cook for about 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and set aside.

Assemble the dish:

  1. Firstly; grease your baking dish with butter.
  2. Add some white sauce to the bottom of the dish. Then, add mozzarella cheese (divided into 2 parts), pour your cooked pasta, add the chicken mixture on top, and finally spread evenly the white sauce, and top with the remaining mozzarella cheese.
  3. Then, sprinkle some oregano and thyme on top.
  4. In a preheated oven at 200C°, bake your pasta casserole for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted.
  5. Finally, remove from the oven and serve.
  6. Enjoy.

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