Steps to Prepare Quick Sausage Pasta Bake

Sausage Pasta Bake.

You can have Sausage Pasta Bake using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sausage Pasta Bake

1. You need 400 g of pasta.
2. It's 1 tin of chopped tomatoes.
3. You need of olive oil.
4. Prepare 1-2 tsp of tomato paste or Ketchup.
5. It's of As much chopped veg as you like! (I used mangetout).
6. You need 2 cloves of garlic bruised and chopped.
7. It's 1 tsp of dried oregano (or 2 sprigs fresh).
8. It's 200 g of cream cheese.
9. Prepare 6 of sausages.
10. It's 120 g of grated cheddar.
11. Prepare 1 of beef or big salad tomato.

Sausage Pasta Bake step by step

1. Set Oven to 200ºC fan. Place 6 whole sausage on a baking tray and cook for 20 minutes. When done, leave to cool on the side..
2. Cook pasta for about 10 minutes while making sauce and veg..
3. Add garlic to a medium heat pan with olive oil and a bit of salt. Cook for 1 min before adding oregano and other chopped veg. Cook for a further 2 mins..
4. Add tin of tomatoes and paste/ketchup and turn down the heat a notch. Let sauce simmer gently to evaporate some of the water content. Season with salt and pepper to taste..
5. Chop cooled sausage and add to the pan. Then add cream cheese and a spoonful of pasta water for starch (this will help the pasta bake hold it's shape).
6. Once sauce has a relatively thick consistency, drain the pasta and mix together with the sauce. Transfer to a deep baking tray and sprinkle grated cheese and chopped beef/salad tomato on top. You can also add a bit of oregano, pepper or basil on top as well..
7. Bake at 170ºC fan for 8-10 mins till cheese is melted with nice golden brown tips (you'll see what I mean!) Leave to cool for 10 minutes before eating..