Creamy ham & mushroom pasta bake

Creamy ham & mushroom pasta bake

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Cooking time

Prep: 10 mins Cook: 20 mins

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 5

Use up the leftovers in your fridge with this hearty family supper dish

Nutrition and extra info

Additional info

  • Freezable
Nutrition info

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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

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susieone's picture
5

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!!

sarahroberts28's picture

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.

sarahroberts28's picture

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)

skosagemaloo's picture

This was a really bland dish and quite frankly a waste of ingredients. Managed a few mouthfuls before I binned the lot.

carrow's picture
5

i`ve made this pasta dish twice now and used pancetta it is a really easy and very nice meal 3 adults and 2 children had it and i still had some left over for my lunch the next day

et34ed98mam100's picture

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.

kat879's picture
5

I made this last night - and it was amazing! My brother who doesn't usually eat much had seconds, and it was all gone by the end of the night. I added peas, corn and red onions as well. I'm thinking of adding garlic to the mushrooms next time, and maybe some capsicum as well.

erow111's picture
5

Used a little less pasta, and also added sweetcorn, teaspoon of whole grain mustard and used bacon instead of ham. Love it!

chatonette's picture
2

My husband said it was too bland and stodgy.

KDudgeon's picture

Really nice recipe, a favourite for our home too! We added frozen peas and a little pasta broth to slacken the sauce. Also used all the cheese in the sauce and grated extra on top as well as adding little noughts of blue cheese which gave it a deeper flavour. Enjoy!

philace72's picture
5

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..

sarahbartlett's picture
5

Very tasty. Used leek instead of sping onions, added peas and left out the cheese to save calories/washing up.

jimiskewl's picture
3

It was almost like making a ham and mushroom pie but without the pastry! Quite nice and easy to make but I think that there are better pasta dishes out there.

funk42's picture
4

Made with left over Parmesan and creme fraiche in the sauce as well - very rich sauce and huge portions probably a little too big for me but tasty but might add black pepper as well next time

karenchallinor's picture

I added red and yellow peppers instead of onions and finished off the topping with some mozzarella and cheddar. The whole family love this and it is great to make ahead.

magickat77's picture
4

Brilliant recipe, so easy and adaptable - great for using up all sorts of leftovers. Makes loads as well so very economical :)

jenniferxo's picture
4

This tasted lovely the whole family loved it! Instead of butter i used margirine and i used bacon instead of ham 300grams of it. Also the sauce gets abit thick so i added an extra 100ml. Next time i'll only cookk 250grams of pasta as 500grams was wayyy to much!. Deffo make this again :)

emmavictoria27's picture

I made in a hurry when some friends came over for an impromptu visit. Used what I had in the fridge so substituted ham for smoked bacon and added crushed garlic and fresh parsley to the sauce - delicious!

mollymango's picture
4

This tasted wonderful, very creamy with scrumptious flavours, I had only a little problem getting the lumps out of the sauce, but once everything was mixed together, you didn't notice anyway. I will be doing this again!

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