This twist on the viral baked feta pasta dish is pure comfort food
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Baked feta pasta was all over TikTok in early 2021. Yes, this decadent dish went viral thanks to food blogger Yumna Jawad, creator of Feel Good Foodie. Now, she's back with a new twist on her mega-popular recipe: Baked feta pasta soup. Watch the video above to try it at home!
Video Transcript
YUMNA JAWAD: Two years ago, this baked feta pasta dish took Finland by surprise, and it became such a craze. It made its way over to the US, and I made it viral on TikTok. The vibe on my social media is really a feel good one. So you'll notice a lot of color, a lot of just simple foods that are nourishing, in season, and lots of trends as well.
Today, I'm going to show you a twist on baked feta pasta. It's baked feta pasta soup. All you really need is some pasta, some tomatoes, and feta cheese. So we're going to start out the way we would start out doing a pasta dish, baking the tomatoes and the feta cheese, one small diced onion, olive oil, salt and pepper. A block of 8 ounces of feta cheese when it's all compressed together is just going to melt better, and it's just going to create the best consistency for it.
We're going to bake it in the oven at 400 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes. We just want to make sure that the tomatoes burst and that feta cheese gets nice and melty. It looks so good. It smells so good. I'm going to go ahead and pour this right into the pot. Now we're just going to flavor it with a little bit of basil, garlic, thyme, and crushed red pepper.
I'm just going to give it a good mix and let that garlic cook down and become fragrant just for a minute. Time for the broth. I'm just going to use, today, four cups of vegetable broth. Add some cooked pasta right to the pot, and it's ready as soon as it's warm through. You'll notice the feta cheese gets nice and melty in there. It almost becomes like a cream sauce.
I also recommend adding a couple of just, like, crumbles of the feta cheese right on top. Time for the taste test. So good. The feta cheese is nice and tangy and creamy in there. The tomatoes are tart and sweet. The pasta just gives it more hardiness, and that's how you taste the trend.
