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The perfect family meal: pasta-ham gratin. We'll tell you how you can easily prepare the popular pasta casserole without ready-made bags.
After a long day, dinner should be made as easily and quickly as possible. The handle quickly goes to a finished bag. Such a classic pasta and ham gratin can also be easily prepared without preparing.
A creamy cream sauce with noodles, spicy ham cubes and the whole thing baked crispy with cheese ... sounds heavenly and makes big and small at the table. We'll tell you the recipe for the popular family meal.
Fixed noodle and ham gratin without ready-made bags
The list of ingredients looks pretty long for a super fixed pasta casserole, right? Don't worry, that is huge, because most of them are spices and a few ingredients so that the sauce also gets really tasty. Basically you just have to throw everything together, stir and do it! It takes a minute longer than just pulling a bag on - but it is worth it for this taste.
Ingredients for 4 portions:
- 400 g pasta
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 200 g of cooked ham
- 100 g bacon, rolled
- 150 ml milk
- 200 ml of whipped cream
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/2 teaspoon vegetable broth, powder
- Salt and pepper
- 1 TL paprika powder
- 1 pinch of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons of melting cheese
- 200 g grated cheese
- 2 away
- a little fresh chives
This is how the preparation succeeds:
1. Cook the pasta in salt water al dente - drain about 3 minutes earlier than specified on the pack. In the meantime, pull off the onion and dice, chop the garlic. Cut the cooked ham into pieces too. Separate the eggs and wash the chives and cut them into small rings.
2. The oven on180 degrees top/bottom heatPreheat. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the onion and bacon cubes in it. When the onion is glassy, add the garlic and ham cubes and fry for a few minutes.
3. Drain the pasta and put them in a baking dish. Pour the ham and onion mixture and the chives over it and mix with the pasta with a spoon.
4. In a high vessel the egg yolks, cream, milk, vegetable broth, sugar, salt, pepper, paprika powder, tomato paste and melting cheese with a blender (Buy here at Amazon*) Mix to a sauce. Then pour over the pasta and sprinkle with cheese. For approx.20-25 minutesBake in the oven until the cheese is golden brown.
Tipp:Change the gratin a little by mixing peas or other vegetables into the pasta.
Try too:
Noodle and ham gratin with twist
You love the classic pasta casserole with ham, but do you want to variety? Then also try out these variants:
Mediterranean twist with olives and feta:Give the gratin a Mediterranean note by adding your black olives and diced feta cheese. Discover the olives in advance and cut them into slices, then lift them under the noodles. Simply replace the rubbish with crumbled feta.
Fiery version with chorizo and peppers:For a spicy variant, replace the cooking ham with sharp chorizo sausage and add red and green paprika pieces. Really delicious and something else!
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We hope that you like our recipe and wish you a lot of fun cooking, baking & trying! Please also write to usInstagramor onFacebook: We always look forward to suggestions and recipe requests!
