Maltese Timpana {Pasta Pie}
Timpana is summed up as pasta, tomato sauce, meat and cheese encased in pastry. A pasta pie!
Prep Time20 minutes mins
Cook Time1 hour hr
Total Time1 hour hr 20 minutes mins
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Mediterranean
Keyword: pasta, pastry
Servings: 6 portions
- 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
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