One Pot Pepperoni Pasta
This easy, budget-friendly 25 minute One Pot Pepperoni Pasta is cheesy and tomatoey with mild peppery kick from of course, the pepperoni.
Ingredients
- 120 g pizza pepperoni slices
- 350 g pasta
- 300 g passata (canned tomato sauce US)
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 ltr hot water
- 1 chicken stock cube
- Pinch sugar
- 1 teaspoon dried mixed herbs
- 130 g cheddar, ideally mature / sharp (see notes)
- Pinch salt and black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Add the oil to a large pan over a low heat and when hot, add the onions. Fry for around 5 minutes, until softened.
- Add the garlic and fry a further 1 minute, stirring.
- While that’s cooking, cut your pepperoni slices into thirds if slices are large, or in half if slices are smaller. If the slices are stuck together, you can keep them like that while you cut them. Then once sliced, use your fingers to roughly separate.
- Add the hot water, sugar, herbs and black pepper and crumble in the stock cubes. Stir well until the stock cubes have dissolved. Turn heat to high and bring to the boil. Then turn heat to medium and cook over a rolling boil, stirring often until the pasta is cooked through and liquid is mostly absorbed - about 13-15 minutes, depending what pasta you use. Once done, remove from the heat and stir in the cheese until melted. Then fold through the pepperoni and serve.
Notes
If you use a milder cheddar, you might want to add another handful for more cheesy flavour.
Baby & Toddler
Suitable from 6 months+ with the following tweaks:
- go for a pasta shape that little one can palm like penne, rigatoni, fusilli or rotini
- use low or no-salt chicken stock
- hold off adding salt (remove little one’s serving and stir-through salt to taste after)
- dish theirs up before stirring through the pepperoni
STORAGE
Store leftovers in an air-tight container in the fridge for 24 hours (cook day + 1). Can be frozen - defrost for 24 hours in the fridge and reheat in the microwave (add a drizzle of water first), stirring halfway, until steaming hot all the way through.
Nutrition - per serving
Calories: 339kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 16gFat: 26gSaturated Fat: 12gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0.5gCholesterol: 62mgSodium: 1362mgPotassium: 708mgFiber: 3gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 1097IUVitamin C: 15mgCalcium: 271mgIron: 3mg
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