Baked Feta Pasta with Mushrooms

This Baked Feta Pasta with Mushrooms recipe is simple to make and creates the perfect sauce combination that provides a sweet, salty creamy pasta.

📝 Ingredients

• 400 g short pasta (I've used casarecce)
• 500 g mixed mushrooms (I’ve used shiitake and brown mushrooms)
• 1 red onion
• 6 garlic cloves
• 160 g block of feta cheese
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil (with some extra)
• 1 pinch dried oregano
• 100 g baby spinach
• 4 sprigs of thyme
• 1 handful toasted pine nuts
• Squeeze of lemon (optional)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F
2. 2Slice mushrooms and onion and place into an oven dish
3. 3Add garlic cloves whole in their skin along with the fresh thyme leaves
4. 4Drizzle over the olive oil and give a quick mix and massage with your hands so everything is nicely coated
5. 5Add the block of feta in the middle of the dish and place all the mushroom mixture around it evenly
6. 6Season the feta with oregano and a drizzle of olive oil
7. 7Bake in the oven for 25 minutes until mushrooms are nicely golden and feta has softened
8. 8When mushrooms have 10 minutes left on the cooking time, start to cook the pasta in heavily salted water. As always, don’t forget to save some pasta water on the side
9. 9Remove oven dish and gently peel garlic cloves from their skin. Using a fork, mash the garlic cloves in the same oven tray
10. 10Give it all a mix together breaking up the feta cheese with a spoon
11. 11First add the spinach then top with the cooked pasta with a good splash of pasta water. Mix together quickly to create a beautiful creamy sauce. If it’s too thick, add more pasta water
12. 12Add pine nuts right before serving so they keep their crunch and serve your creamy sauce Baked Feta Mushroom Pasta :). If you find it too salty add a good squeeze of lemon to balance it out