Simple Way to Prepare Favorite Cheeseburger Pasta Bake

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Cheeseburger Pasta Bake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Cheeseburger Pasta Bake is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cheeseburger pasta bake using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Cheeseburger Pasta Bake:

1. Get 165 g rigatoni pasta, dry weight,
2. Prepare 250 g 5% lean beef mince,
3. Prepare 1/2 an onion, chopped,
4. Take 1.5 salad tomatoes, chopped, or around 5 baby plum tomatoes,
5. Get 1 rasher thick smoked bacon, cut into small pieces,
6. Take 1 tbsp tomato paste,
7. Make ready 60 g 50% reduced fat cheddar cheese, grated,
8. Take 1 pickled gerkin, sliced thinly into circles,
9. Prepare Salt and pepper to season,
10. Prepare 200 ml water,
11. Get 1 tbsp cooking oil
12. Prepare Spices:
13. Make ready 1 tbsp Spicentice 'gourmet burger rub', OR
14. Take 2 tsp Paprika,
15. Make ready 1 tsp Garlic granules,
16. Take 1 tiny pinch of red chilli flakes,
17. Take To drizzle on top:
18. Take Ketchup, & American mustard,
19. Prepare OR burger sauce

Steps to make Cheeseburger Pasta Bake:

1. Heat a large frying pan up over a medium heat and add in the cooking oil. Once hot add the onions and fry gently for around 3-4 minutes. Next add the bacon and fry for a further two minutes. Add in the tomatoes then stir to combine.
2. Add in the beef mince and season well with salt and pepper. Break the mince down with a wooden spoon and begin to brown it off. Add in the dried spices, chilli and the tomato paste then stir. Add the water and turn the heat down a notch. Bring to a gentle simmer and cook gently whilst you cook the pasta according to packet instructions, but remove the pasta from the heat around 2-3 minutes before it's completely cooked so it's not too soft.
3. Drain off the pasta once cooked and add it in with the beef once the sauce has reduced by 95%. Season again with salt and pepper. Add the pasta mixture into an oven proof dish. Preheat the oven to 180 (fan).
4. Sprinkle over the grated cheese, making sure it's evenly covered right up to all edges. Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes until piping hot. Next add the pickled gerkins evenly over the top of the cheese then place under a medium heat grill until golden and bubbly on top. Drizzle over your choice of sauces, serve up and enjoy! :)

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