Tasty Tomato And Bacon Bake

Yummy – adapted from a heinz tomato soup tin

Ingredients

• 250gm dried penne pasta
• 2 tbls olive oil (or any cooking oil)
• 1/2 chopped onion
• 100g of sliced mushrooms
• 100g chopped smoked bacon
• 150g halved cherry tomatoes
• 2 garlic cloves
• 400g heinz tomato soup
• 50g single cream
• 8 torn fresh basil leaves
• 80g full fat or half fat mozzarella cheese

Instructions

STEP 1:

1 cook pasta as you would normally in boiling water and put in a suitable oven proof baking dish. Preheat over to 180c or grill on high

STEP 2:

2 add oil to frying pan and cook bacon and fry for about 2mins

STEP 3:

3 remove bacon from pan and fry mushrooms with a sprinkling of salt and pepper.

STEP 4:

4 add chopped onion and crushed garlic and cook until soft

STEP 5:

5 add bacon back to pan.

STEP 6:

6 add tomatoes and cook until toms go soft

STEP 7:

7 add can of soup and siimmer for 2mins

STEP 8:

8 add cream and stir

STEP 9:

9 add basil leaves and stir.

STEP 10:

10 pour misture in the pasta and sprinkle over the cheese and bake or grill until the cheese melts. (about 15mins in oven at 180degc)

STEP 11:

STEP 12:

if you dont have any mozza then any other cheese will do like chedder or feta etc.

STEP 13:

remember we are students so we have to make do. So if you are short of some minor ingredients then dont worry, just leave it out.

STEP 14:

use dried mixed herbs instead