While the cheese is baking, boil the pasta according to package instructions, but reserve ½ cup of water for the sauce. Place the Boursin cheese in the middle of a 9 x 13 baking dish and place the tomatoes, onion, garlic cloves all around it.ĭrizzle the olive oil over the pan and season with the seasoning of your choice.īake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes.

2 packages of Boursin cheese – preferably garlic and herb.

If you like Boursin, you should try my chicken with Boursin mushroom sauce recipe.

What I love about it is the beautifully balanced garlic flavor that provides a soothing aftertaste. For this recipe, it is best to use the garlic and fine herbs variety. Made of Gournay cheese, a traditional French cheese, it has a creamy texture and exists in several flavors. Instead of the feta used in the original recipe, I decided to use Boursin, You need to try this variation as it is truly amazing and so easy to make! What is Boursin cheese?īoursin cheese is a dairy product created by Francois Boursin in Normandy. The sauce is incredibly simple to make, you just need to bake all the ingredients in the oven.

The recipe combines pasta with cheese and other ingredients such as tomatoes, olive oil, onions, and herbs. You may have already seen it on TikTok, it sent viewers into a frenzy a few years back (so much that the sale of feta cheese in Finland increased by 300% after a Finnish food blogger posted the original TikTok feta pasta video!). I am so excited to introduce you to this baked Boursin pasta variation. If you are a faithful reader of my blog, you already know my world-famous Boursin cheese pasta. And there will be a next time because this is tasty and so easy to make.The soothing aroma of the Boursin cheese combined with cherry tomatoes for this baked Boursin pasta recipe will surprise your taste buds! The TikTok Baked Pasta Frenzy // I didn’t add any pasta water when stirring this together, but next time maybe a quarter cup to mix with the cheese. Maybe even a dab of butter to add to the creaminess of the sauce. Like red pepper flakes, or wilted spinach. There are also some ingredients that could be added to the recipe too. There are lots of food bloggers who have adapted recipe variations of this dish and have come to the conclusion that “Heck yes, this is dang good.” And that’s my opinion too. Sprinkle with more chopped basil and serve warm. Then add the pasta and keep mixing until the ingredients are incorporated. Once the casserole dish is out of the oven, add the garlic and chopped basil and use a spoon to break up the feta, and start tossing to combine. Drain the pasta and reserve a half cup of pasta water in case the dish needs to be thinned slightly. While the feta and tomatoes bake, cook your pasta according to the package instructions. Ovens always heat differently and my casserole was done in 35 minutes. You could also boost the temperature up to 450° for the final minutes. Leave the casserole in the oven for another 5 to 10 minutes if it looks like it needs a little more time. After 35 minutes check to see if the tomatoes and cheese are starting to brown a little bit and the tomatoes have burst open. Place the casserole into a pre-heated 400° oven and set your timer to 35 minutes. For some spicy notes, add some red pepper flakes. Adding some dried oregano or thyme would be nice too. I added a teaspoon of dried Italian seasoning. Sprinkle salt and pepper over the entire dish and add whatever herbs you desire, or just omit them. Don’t forget to put a bit of oil on the cheese too. Next, pour the olive oil over the tomatoes and then toss them a bit to coat with oil.

Place the block of feta cheese in the middle then surround it with a single layer of cherry or grape tomatoes. Start out with a 9″ by 13″ casserole dish. Nothing else needs to be done except assembling and baking. The only prep you need to do is mince some garlic and chop some basil. Pasta, any small-sized, (not long pasta).What’s crazy about this recipe is how simple it is to make and the minimal ingredients that are used. It’s a simple feta pasta dish that I had to try to see what the hype was about. Well, I kept seeing references to this Tik-Tok video that has over a million views. As a food blogger you’d like for a couple of your recipes to take off and go viral…maybe on Pinterest, Instagram, or Facebook. While scouring Google the other day, I was searching for viral food photos. Honest Opinion, Would I Make This Again?.Ingredients in Feta Pasta with Tomatoes.

Tik tok feta pasta video