Superfood Spaghetti Vine Tomatoes and Baked Ricotta
This quick and tasty pasta recipe from Jamie Oliver's Everyday Super Food is flavourful with garlic, rocket and thyme. It makes for a really easy family dinner.
From the book
Everyday Super Food
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Introduction
Spelt spaghetti has an incredible nutty taste and is a great alternative to regular spaghetti as it’s high in wheat bran fibre, or beta-glucans, which help keep our cholesterol levels in check
Ingredients
| olive oil | |
| ½ | a bunch of fresh thyme (15g) |
| 4 | cloves of garlic |
| ½–1 | fresh red chilli |
| 1 | lemon |
| 500g | ripe mixed-colour cherry tomatoes, on the vine |
| 250g | best-quality ricotta cheese |
| 320g | dried spelt spaghetti |
| 4 | handfuls of rocket |
| optional: balsamic vinegar |
Essential kit
You will need a 30cm x 40cm baking tray.
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. Pour 3 tablespoons of oil into a small bowl. Run the bunch of thyme under a hot tap for 3 seconds to reawaken it, then shake dry and strip the leaves into the oil. Peel the garlic, then finely slice it with the chilli and add to the bowl. Finely grate in the lemon zest, add a pinch of sea salt and black pepper and mix together. Lay the cherry tomatoes in a 30cm x 40cm baking tray. Rub the flavoured oil all over the ricotta and place in the centre of the tray, then gently rub the remaining oil over the tomatoes. Add a splash of water to the tray, place in the oven and roast for 45 minutes, then remove. With 10 minutes to go, cook the spaghetti in a pan of boiling salted water according to the packet instructions.
Lift the ricotta out of the tray, then shake the tomatoes off the vines, discarding the stalks. Add half a mug of pasta water to the tray and gently shake to loosen all the sticky goodness from the base. Drain the spaghetti and toss straight into the tray with a squeeze of lemon juice, season to perfection, then break that beautiful ricotta over the top. Sprinkle over the rocket, toss together well, then serve. My missus likes this with a little drizzle of balsamic, too.
Everyday Super Food by Jamie Oliver is published by Penguin Random House
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