Easy Cheesy Pasta Bake
This thirty minute, plant-based meal is loaded with cozy flavor and is a one dish meal with pasta, sauce, vegan sausage, veggies and cheese.
Servings: 6 servings
Equipment
- casserole dish
- large soup pot
- foil or casserole dish lid
- mesh strainer
Ingredients
- 3 cups pasta any variety
- 25 oz marinara sauce any variety - mushroom flavor used
- ¼ cup nutritional yeast
- 3 cups fresh spinach chopped - tightly packed
- 1 cup vegan cheese shreds Mozzarella
- 1 vegan sausage chopped - Field Roast used
- vegan Parmesan to taste optional
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano optional
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil drizzled over top - optional
Instructions
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add a pinch of salt.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Boil pasta until tender, usually 10-12 minutes.
- For the last two minutes of pasta boiling, Add the spinach to a mesh strainer and steam it over the pot - to gently wilt.
- Remove the pasta and spinach and transfer to the casserole dish.
- Sprinkle the nutritional yeast over top the pasta and spinach.
- Pour the pasta sauce right over top the pasta.
- Sprinkle the cheese over top the sauce.
- Add the chopped vegan sausage over top the cheese - you could also fold the sausage into the pasta if you want a more tender sausage texture. Sprinkling on top allows them to brown nicely with slightly crisp edges.
- Add optional oregano, vegan Parm and EVOO over top.
- Cover the casserole dish in foil or a lid and bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. If desired, remove covering for two minutes and turn oven to broil - to further intensify the melty cheese bubbling.
- Serve warm!
Nutrition Estimate
Calories: 298kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Sodium: 835mg | Potassium: 625mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 1918IU | Vitamin C: 12mg | Calcium: 64mg | Iron: 4mg