baked feta pasta

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Creamy, sharp, and satisfying. Ostensibly from TikTok, but shockingly good?

Ingredients:

  • 1 block of sheep’s milk feta (note: cow’s milk doesn’t cut it)
  • 3 pints of cherry or grape tomatoes
  • 2-3 shallots, roughly quartered
  • crushed garlic to taste
  • 2-3 sprigs of fresh thyme
  • salt & pepper
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • pasta
  • lemon juice (optional)

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 400°
  2. In a large baking dish, place feta in the center. Surround the feta with the tomatoes, shallots, garlic, and thyme.
  3. Drizzle olive oil over feta and rest of the pan.
  4. Bake for 45 minutes or until feta is golden and tomatoes have burst.
  5. Meanwhile, cook pasta. Reserve 1/2 cup pasta water before draining.
  6. When the tomatoes & feta are done, remove from oven and mix to combine. Add pasta water to desired level of creaminess (important!). Add lemon juice to taste if desired.
  7. Serve as is or with chicken (recommended).

Recipe based on X, which was based on a million and one TikToks, with modifications to taste.

You can also make this with broccoli. Or any other vegetable, really.