YPC March Virtual Social: Cooking Class
Name:
YPC March Virtual Social: Cooking Class
Date:
March 26, 2021
Time:
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
Registration:
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Event Description:
Join YPC and YPC ambassador Jeff Fink and learn how to cook and customize this gourmet and elevated version of the Tik Tok Baked Feta Pasta dish and homemade garlic bread.
The ingredients you will need to follow along are listed below.
Elevated Tik Tok Baked Feta Pasta:
2 pints cherry or grape tomatoes
1 shallot, quartered or half of a medium onion
2 heads of garlic
extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup of tomato sauce
Anchovy paste
Crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
1 (8 to 10 oz ) block or crumbled feta
3 sprigs thyme
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
4 tablespoons of freshly chopped basil
10 oz pasta of your choosing
8 oz portabella or cremini mushrooms, torn
1 bag of baby spinach
Heavenly Garlic Bread:
1 loaf of high quality bread
1/2 stick of butter
Roasted garlic head
Salt
DIRECTIONS
The ingredients you will need to follow along are listed below.
Elevated Tik Tok Baked Feta Pasta:
2 pints cherry or grape tomatoes
1 shallot, quartered or half of a medium onion
2 heads of garlic
extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup of tomato sauce
Anchovy paste
Crushed red pepper flakes (optional)
1 (8 to 10 oz ) block or crumbled feta
3 sprigs thyme
Salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
4 tablespoons of freshly chopped basil
10 oz pasta of your choosing
8 oz portabella or cremini mushrooms, torn
1 bag of baby spinach
Heavenly Garlic Bread:
1 loaf of high quality bread
1/2 stick of butter
Roasted garlic head
Salt
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 400°.
- Cut tomatoes in half
- Quarter the shallots.
- Cut in half one head of the garlic, smash 4-5 cloves of the other garlic
- In a large ovenproof medium baking dish, combine tomatoes, shallot, tomato paste, 3-4 cloves of smashed garlic, anchovy paste and a generous amount olive oil. Season with salt and red pepper flakes and toss to combine.
- Place feta into center of tomato mixture and drizzle top with remaining olive oil. Scatter thyme over tomatoes.
- Bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until tomatoes are bursting and feta is golden on top. Time will depend on your oven. So keep an eye on it till this happens
- Meanwhile, in a large pot of salted boiling water. The water should taste like the ocean.
- Place 3 cloves of garlic in the water
- Cook pasta according to package instructions.
- Reserve the pasta water in a heat proof container (aka another pot or glass bowl)
- Tear mushrooms in to small bite size pieces,
- heat olive oil in frying pan over medium heat and sauté mushrooms until they have given off their moisture and they have browned, about 5-8 minutes.
- Add spinach, salt & pepper, and cook until spinach has just wilted, about 1-2 minutes.
- Once your tomatoes are bursting and feta is golden on top, pull out of the oven and allow to cool ever so slightly.
- Pull out the head of garlic and reserve for the bread!
- To baking dish with tomatoes and feta, break up the fetta, and stir all the contents together,
- add cooked pasta, and toss together with the tomato cheese
- If the sauce is a bit dry, add a bit of the reserved pasta water to loosen
- Combine Spinach and mushrooms to the cheese mixture in baking dish.
- Garnish with basil, and parmesan before serving.
