Prep Time: 00:10
Servings: 6
Cooking Time: 00:30
Ingredients
- 400.00g - pasta
- 450.00g - broccoli - separated into florets
- 12.00 - strips rindless bacon - chopped
- 300.00g - ricotta cheese
- 250.00ml - cream
- 1.00 - egg - beaten
- 4.00ml - salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 30.00ml - butter
- 125.00ml - Parmesan cheese - grated
Method
This just oozes deliciousness! Comforting and filling.
Preheat the oven. Cook
the pasta in a large pot of
boiling salted water until al
dente. Drain.
Blanch the broccoli in boiling salted water while the pasta cooks.
Fry the bacon in a pan until crisp and golden brown and then drain it on kitchen towel.
Beat the ricotta, cream, egg, salt and black pepper in a mixing bowl.
Grease a heatproof oven dish
with butter and add the pasta.
Place half the ricotta mixture on
top, followed by all the broccoli
and bacon and, lastly, the
other half of the ricotta mixture.
Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top and bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.