Maltese Timpana {Pasta Pie}
Timpana is summed up as pasta, tomato sauce, meat and cheese encased in pastry. A pasta pie!
Servings 6 portions
Ingredients
- 4 portions of homemade bolognese sauce
- 2 sheets of ready made puff pastry
- 500 g rigatoni – or any other pasta you feel like
- 50 g grated cheddar
Instructions
- Cook the pasta as per packet instructions, drain and cool with cold water
- Heat the bolognese sauce until warmed through and mix with the pasta
- Preheat the oven to 180C/ Line a round baking tin with puff pastry
- Pour the pasta and sauce mix into the pastry case and top with the cheese
- Create a lid from the remaining puff pastry. Either make slits in the lid with a knife or create a lattice effect to let air through
- Oven with foil and bake in the oven for an hour or until browned and cooked through. You can take the foil off for the last ten minutes if you’d like a browner bake
*Note: Nutritional information is estimated, based on publicly available data. Nutrient values may vary from those published.