Best Mediterranean Pasta Casserole with Tomato Sauce

Summary

Ingredients

• 300 g pasta
• Olive oil, for frying
• 1 onion (s), red
• 1 clove garlic
• 2 tablespoon tomato paste
• 400 g tomato (s), chopped
• 1 teaspoon spice (s), (pasta spice)
• salt and pepper
• paprika powder
• 2 sugar cubes
• 125 g mozzarella
• 1 handful tomato (s), dried
• Basil, fresh
• Parmesan
• cheese, grated
• olives

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Instructions

1. First, the noodles are boiled in plenty of salted water for about 4 to 5 minutes and then drained. Approx. 100 to 150 ml of pasta water, which is needed for the sauce, is skimmed off.
2. Then the sauce is prepared. For this, the chopped onion and the chopped garlic clove are lightly sautéed in the olive oil, the tomato paste added, fried for half a minute and then deglazed with the chopped canned tomatoes and pasta water. Now the spices and sugar can also be added. The sauce is brought to the boil briefly.
3. This is now added to the skimmed noodles and mixed well. Then the pasta is placed in a baking dish and mixed with diced mozzarella, diced sun-dried tomatoes and coarsely chopped basil.
4. Finally, Parmesan, grated cheese and olives are sprinkled over the pasta and baked at 180 ° C top and bottom heat for about 10 to 15 minutes.
5. After the baking time, a few more basil leaves can be spread over the casserole.