Cheese and Bacon Pasta

Cheese and Bacon Pasta

This dish is dead simple to throw together but packed with deep flavour. Crispy bacon chunks running through cheese and cream makes for a killer profile.
Gluten-Free Dairy-Free
Dairy free Creamy Cheese and Bacon Pasta

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

25 mins

Servings

2 people

Ingredients

  • Gluten free spaghetti
  • 1 onion
  • 200g bacon or lardons
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • 6 mushrooms
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 tsp mixed herbs
  • 200g passata
  • 1 chicken stock pot
  • 100ml dairy free oat fraiche
  • 30g dairy free cheese
  • Black pepper
  • Fresh basil leaves

Method

Step 1: Slice the Onion
Finely cut your whole onion asset down into clean, narrow slivers.
Finely slicing red or white table onion
Step 2: Render and Crispen
Add your lardons or chopped bacon strips alongside the onion slices to a pan with your oil. Fry for 15 minutes until the pork elements turn completely crispy and your onions are sticky and sweet.
Sizzling bacon bits and onion strings in skillet
Step 3: Boil Grains and Sauté Veg
Drop your gluten-free pasta into boiling water. Chop your mushrooms, fresh tomatoes, and garlic cloves down. Incorporate them directly into your bacon skillet alongside the dried mixed herbs and cook for 5 minutes.
Adding cut mushrooms and garlic bits to bacon pan mix
Step 4: Incorporate Sauce Cream
Pour the tinned passata sauce across the pan, drop in your chicken stock pot, and add the dairy-free oat fraiche cream component.
Pouring rich passata sauce and cream inside pan base
Step 5: Shred the Cheese Base
Grate your dairy-free cheese replacement element completely into the warm pan layer.
Shredding plant based cheese directly into warm red gravy
Step 6: Steep the Seasonings
Drop in the fresh whole basil leaves and scatter a dust of ground black pepper over top. Simmer gently while your pasta strands finish cooking.
Simmering herby red pasta sauce base
Step 7: Bind the Elements
Drain your spaghetti and fold it straight through the hot bacon cream gravy until well coated.
Combining long spaghetti strands with hot pasta sauce
Step 8: Final Garnish
Top with a final scatter of fresh basil and coarse pepper, then serve.
Plated creamy bacon and cheese pasta arrangement

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