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You can cook Courgettes and peas bake using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Courgettes and peas bake
- Prepare 4 of courgettes.
- It's 1 of onion.
- Prepare 200 g of short pasta.
- You need 50 g of breadcumbs.
- You need 8-10 of cherry tomatoes.
- It's half of tsp of nutmeg.
- It's 2-3 of bay leaves.
- It's 2-3 tbsp of olive oil.
- It's of salt and pepper.
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Courgettes and peas bake instructions
- Add a pinch of salt to one tablespoon of olive oil in a non stick pan. Chop the onions finely and shallow fry them for five minutes or so until golden..
- In the meantime, chop the courgettes. The smaller you chop them, the sooner they will become mushy - so it depends on your preference. These are 1-2 cm..
- Add the courgettes to the pan with the nutmeg, the bay leaves and a generous pinch of pepper. Stir and cover with a lid. Let it cook for 15-20 minutes..
- Once they have become soft and creamy, remove the lid but continue cooking so that the water evaporates..
- In the meantime, preheat the oven at 200 C. Cook the pasta with the peas. Leave the pasta a few minutes undercooked as it will finish cooking in the oven..
- Chop the cherry tomatoes in half..
- Once cooked, mix the pasta and the peas in with the courgettes and remove from heat. Add salt to taste..
- Fill an oven dish with the pasta and courgettes, cover it with the breadcrumbs and lay the tomatoes on top. Drizzle generously with olive oil..
- Bake for 20 minutes or until the breadcrumbs look crispy. (I burned the tomatoes a bit here)..
- Ready!.
Serve with a grind of black pepper, salad, pasta or polenta to keep the dish gluten-free. You can assemble this dish, refrigerate it and bake it later - or the next day. You can even freeze it and cook when needed. You can swap Parmesan cheese with. Herby courgettes and peas with semolina porridge.