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Smoked Haddock Pasta Bake with Leek & Sweetcorn
This dish brings together the comfort of a pasta bake with the creaminess of a chowder. Line-caught smoked haddock, sweet leek, sweetcorn and leafy spinach are all simmered in a creamy almond sauce. Add brown rice penne pasta. Bake 'til golden perfection.
High protein
Low sat fat
Family classics
Serving size
Ingredients
- 200ml almond cream (Nuts) (Water, almond, sunflower oil, stabilisers (arabic gum, xanthan gum), sea salt)
- 250g brown rice penne pasta (Soya) (Brown rice flour 100%)
- 4 tbsp cornflour (use half)
- 80g baby spinach
- 4 smoked haddock fillets (Fish, Milk, Soya)
- 10g vegetable stock powder (Chicory Extract, Salt, Yeast Extracts, Onion Powder, Carrot Extract, Tomato Powder, Rapeseed Oil, Natural Flavouring.)
- 140g sweetcorn (sweetcorn, water, salt)
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 3 garlic clove
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 2 leek
Nutritional Information
Calories: 486
Protein: 29g
Carbs: 62g
Fat: 14g
Smoked Haddock Pasta Bake with Leek & Sweetcorn
This dish brings together the comfort of a pasta bake with the creaminess of a chowder. Line-caught smoked haddock, sweet leek, sweetcorn and leafy spinach are all simmered in a creamy almond sauce. Add brown rice penne pasta. Bake 'til golden perfection.
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Preheat the oven to 240C / fan 220C / gas mark 9
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper
- Bring a large saucepan filled with salted water to a boil
- Boil a half-full kettle
- Pull out a sieve, a measuring jug, a large frying pan & a large baking dish
Roast & prep
- Place the haddock fillets onto the baking tray, drizzle with 1 tsp oil, salt and pepper. Roast for 17 mins, until cooked
- Meanwhile, trim and thinly slice the leeks into 1/2cm half-moons. Finley chop or crush the garlic. Drain and rinse the sweetcorn. Roughly chop the parsley. Rinse the spinach
- Dissolve the half pack of cornflour in the jug with 50ml water, then add the stock and top up with 200ml boiling water
Get the pasta on
- Add the penne to the saucepan and boil for 7-8 mins, until cooked, then drain and toss with 1 tsp oil
Build the dish
- Heat the large frying pan with 1 tbsp oil on medium heat. Once hot, add the leeks and cook for 3-4 mins, until softened
- Add the garlic and smoked paprika and continue to cook for 1 minute
- Pour the stock mixture and almond cream into the pan and simmer for 2 mins, until thickened slightly
- Add the sweetcorn, spinach and half the parsley, mix and cook for 1-2 mins, until the spinach is wilted. Season with salt and pepper
Oven time
- Check your fish is cooked through; it should be steaming hot, opaque and separate easily with a fork
- Stir the drained pasta into the sauce, then gently flake in the cooked haddock
- Transfer everything into the large baking dish. Bake for 7-8 mins, until golden
Plate up
- Serve the pasta bake into bowls and garnish with the remaining parsley
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