I think everyone has heard of the Viral TikTok pasta that has been blowing up the internet recently. It’s simple and looks so delicious. It started a major internet trend of everyone trying it, tweaking the recipe, and giving their take on it. I decided to do the same…trying the recipe but put my own spin on things.
If you have read any of my other blog posts, you may have seen that I have a “Vegan Recipes” section. I want to put a disclaimer, that I am not vegan. Because I have endometriosis (a hormonal disorder), I sometimes try and limit the amount of hormones (i.e. animal products) that I consume. However, I am not fully committed full time.
That being said, I wanted to put a vegan spin on this viral recipes because I know so many people out there are vegan and want to participate as well.
The main ingredients in the original recipe are cherry tomatoes, a block of feta, and noodles. I decided to use a cherry tomato medley, onion, bell pepper, basil and vegan feta cheese. My favorite vegan feta cheese is by Violife (http://www.violifefoods.com). I can find this at my local Whole Foods through Amazon.
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The great thing about this recipe is that everything gets thrown into a casserole dish at once and thrown in the oven. I added the cherry tomatoes, half a diced onion first. P.S. If you don’t own a vegetable dicer, you need to get one immediately. It makes the time it takes to dice the veggies (which is my least favorite part) drastically shorter.
I wanted to include a picture of the one that I use here, but when I tried to find it on Amazon, the closest one I could find was by the brand, Zalik. Amazon Onion/Vegetable Dicer by Zalik
You just push the top down, and it instantly dices the onion.
Just like the viral video, I added the vegan feta cheese block to the middle of the casserole dish, added olive oil, spices, and half a diced orange pepper to make it have more nutrients. I had preheated my oven to 350° F and baked it for 45 min-1 hour.
I was wondering if the vegan feta cheese block would melt as good as normal cheese and O.M.G. it did and it looked SO good.
While this was baking, I boiled some water and made a box of rigatoni noodles. I ended up only adding half the box to the casserole dish with a 1/4 cup of saved pasta water.
I added it all together, mixed, topped with basil and red pepper flakes. I let it sit for about 10 minutes to let the sauce thicken. It turned out so yummy! I am thinking of making it again with some Banza! Chickpea noodles to get more protein.
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TikTok's Viral Feta Pasta- Vegan
Ingredients
- 12 ounces Cherry Tomatoes
- 8.1 ounces Violife Vegan Feta Cheese
- 1/2 Yellow Onion
- 1/2 Orange Bell Pepper
- 8 ounces Rigatoni
- 1 tsp Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Crushed Red Ppper
- 1 tsp Italian Seasoning
- 1 tsp Minced Garlic
- 2 leaves Basil
- 1/4 cup Pasta Water
Instructions
- Preheat Oven to 350°F
- Rinse and add Cherry Tomatoes to a 9" x 11" casserole dish
- Dice Pepper and Onion and add to casserole dish
- Place Vegan Feta Cheese in center of casserole dish
- Drizzle olive oil over entire dish
- Sprinkle all of the spices except the crushed red pepper to dish
- Put in oven for 1 hour (check at around 45 minutes). Tomatoes should have "popped" and cheese fully melted.
- While in the oven, cook pasta according to the box instructions.
- Drain and save about 1/4 cup of the pasta water for later.
- After 1 hour, take dish out of oven and add noodles
- Add pasta water and mix together
- Add crushed red pepper and chopped basil
- Let sit for sauce to thicken for about 10 minutes
- Enjoy!
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