Creamy Baked Pasta

Submitted by Ceezie

"A good recipe that you can add chicken to if you want but tasty as is."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 10
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 lb medium pasta shell
• 15 ounces chickpeas or 15 ounces garbanzo beans
• 15 ounces part skim ricotta cheese
• 1⁄2 cup parmesan cheese, grated
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 2 egg whites
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon dried oregano
• 10 ounces chopped broccoli (frozen thawed and well drained)
• 14 ounces marinara sauce (favorite pasta sauce)

directions

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees. Cook pasta according to pkg directions; drain. In a food processor, puree until smooth; chickpeas or garbanzo beans, ricotta cheese, ¼ cup parmesan cheese, onion, egg whites, salt and oregano. Scrape into bowl and stir in broccoli; mix well. Toss with pasta. Spread red pasta sauce on the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish. Top with pasta then remaining sauce. Cover with foil. Bake 20-30 min or until bubbly. Uncover and sprinkle with remaining ¼ cup parmesan cheese. Bake 5 more minute.

Reviews

[Sydney Mike]

Followed your recipe but did use a homemade pasta sauce that we like! I'm not usually big on using garbanzo beans, but, along with the other ingredients, they worked very nicely to give us a wonderful pasta dish! Thanks for sharing the recipe! [Tagged & made in Please Review My Recipes]