Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, easy italian pasta bake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Easy Italian pasta bake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Easy Italian pasta bake is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy italian pasta bake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Italian pasta bake:

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