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If you need an easy, no-fuss dinner with only a few ingredients, try this creamy Baked Burrata Pasta. It’s the perfect cozy weeknight meal.
To make this flavorful pasta recipe, simply roast cherry tomatoes and burrata in the oven until bursting and golden. Remove from the oven, add fresh garlic, basil, and pasta.
Top with fresh burrata, sea salt, and basil. Sprinkle with balsamic glaze, roasted pine nuts, or toasted breadcrumbs.
For other simple weeknight meals, try my bacon pasta salad or sausage pasta.
Recipe Tip
I’ve made this dish with two types of burrata, one being the creamier kind and the other a firmer burrata similar to mozzarella, and the results are best with the creamier kind.
Baked Burrata Pasta
Equipment
- ovenproof dish
Ingredients
- 400 grams cherry tomatoes
- 4 tablespoons olive oil
- sea salt, to taste
- pepper, to taste
- 250 grams burrata, 2 balls
- 250 grams pasta, puntalette or any you want
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons fresh basil, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 205°C (400°F).
- Place the cherry tomatoes and burrata in an ovenproof dish.
- Drizzle olive oil on top and sprinkle with sea salt and pepper.
- Bake in the hot oven for about 35 minutes or until the tomatoes burst and the burrata is golden.
- Cook the pasta according to the package instructions. You want it ‘al dente’. Hold on to about 50 ml (1/4 cup) of pasta water.
- Remove the baked tomatoes and burrata from the oven.
- Add garlic, basil, the cooked pasta and mix everything.
- Sprinkle with sea salt and pepper, as well as a splash of pasta water if you’d like the dish more creamy.
- Spoon the baked burrata pasta dish into two bowls.
- Halve a fresh burrata and top half onto each bowl.
- Sprinkle the burrata with sea salt.
- Top with more fresh basil and serve.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
