Creamy ham & mushroom pasta bake
Cooking time
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 20 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 5Use up the leftovers in your fridge with this hearty family supper dish
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 678
- protein
- 31g
- carbs
- 89g
- fat
- 25g
- saturates
- 14g
- fibre
- 0g
- sugar
- 8g
- salt
- 1.58g
Ingredients
- 500g bag farfalle
- 50g butter, plus a little extra
- 200g small mushrooms, halved
- bunch spring onions, finely sliced
- 50g plain flour
- 500ml milk
- 140g thickly cut ham, chopped
- 140g mature cheddar, grated
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Method
- Cook the pasta according to pack instructions, then drain. Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6, then melt a little butter in a large saucepan. Fry the mushrooms for a couple of mins, then scoop out and set aside. Use some kitchen paper to wipe out the pan.
- Melt the remaining butter in the pan, then add most of the onions and soften for 1 min. Stir in the flour for another min, then gradually stir in the milk until you have a lump-free sauce. Increase the heat and bubble the sauce, stirring for a few mins to thicken. Turn off the heat, stir in the ham and most of the cheese, then season to taste.
- Tip the pasta and mushrooms into a large ovenproof dish, then pour over the sauce and mix well in the dish. Scatter over the remaining cheese and spring onions, then bake for 10 mins until golden.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2009
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
This will become a regular supper dish. So easy, but so tasty. Like some other reviewers, I use leeks instead of spring onions - I had a couple of small ones left over. And I put in some asparagus, which went very well. So, a great recipe which you can easily tweak to suit what you have in the fridge!!
Delicious! I substituted the ham in this recipe for some grilled bacon (1 rasher each). Lowered the quantities to about 80% of whats stated, because theres only 4 in my family, and unusually, this recipe serves 5. The prep time of 10 mins was a bit of an understatement, i took about 25! (but i am an inexperienced cook). Overall really lovely, will definitely bookmark for a nice student meal.
This recipe was really easy and worked out really well, just made it for my family, but only used 80% of the quantities as theres only four of us, and unusually this recipe is designed to serve 5.
It was delicious and didn't take long to prepare, although ten minutes is a bit of an understatement (im an inexperienced cook so I'd say prep time took me about 20-25 mins)
My oven is typically quite hot so I took it out after 18 mins, just as the cheese on top was going brown and crispy in places. Perfect timing :)
I also grilled some bacon and chopped this instead of the ham, which works just as well. (I used about 1 rasher each)
made this for 2 people so I halved the amount of pasta but kept the amount of cheese sauce to which I added 1 teaspoon of mustard. I used mushrooms, red and yellow sweet peppers with leftover baked gammon with garlic bread and it was delicious.
There's still half left so the original recipe would easily feed 7-8 people. I,ll make this again and try sweetcorn and maybe smoked sausage.
this is the first dish i have ever tried to cook from a recipe (my culinary skills usually extend to pie, mash and veg).. worked well.. the wife and kids liked it.. the second time i made it i added bacon (fried lightly with the mushrooms) and sweetcorn (cooked same time as pasta).. added some more milk to coat pasta with sauce better (might try a little more just to thin out sauce).. the wife and kids loved this version.. would really recomend this dish..
