Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, easy italian pasta bake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy Italian pasta bake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Easy Italian pasta bake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook easy italian pasta bake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Italian pasta bake:

1. Get 300 gr pasta
2. Get Grana Padano cheese
3. Make ready Tomato passata
4. Get Olive oil
5. Make ready leaves Basil
6. Prepare For the beschamel
7. Prepare 500 ml whole milk
8. Take 50 gr unsalted butter
9. Take 50 gr all-purpose flour
10. Take Salt

Instructions to make Easy Italian pasta bake:

1. Cook the pasta in salted boiling water until almost fully cooked (it will complete to cook in the oven)
2. In the meantime, prepare the bechamel sauce. Warm up the milk, then melt the butter into a saucepan, and add the flour to it, mixing it together. When smooth, start adding the milk and mix until there are no clumps left. On medium heat, add salt to taste and keep stirring until the sauce thickens. Turn off the heat and set aside.
3. Drain the pasta, then put it back into its pan on medium heat. Add the tomato passata (as much as you prefer) and the olive oil (about 3 tablespoons). Stir everything well for a few minutes, then turn off the heat.
4. Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F)
5. Grab a loafpan, and begin making layers (they should be only 2). Start with a layer of pasta, then bechamel sauce, then repeat. The last layer has to be bechamel. Put a couple handfuls of grated grana padano cheese on top, then add some basil leaves.
6. Now that you assembled everything, put the loafpan into the oven for about 20/30 minutes or until the cheese on top becomes golden and crispy.
7. You made it! I hope you like my recipe, buon appetito! :)

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