Italian Veggie Bake

This is ane of my favorite things to swallow on the nights that wife has opted to endure carnivorous. It is a recipe large on flavor, veggies too cheese; my favorites are mushrooms, ruby peppers, onions, zucchini, beans, carrots, pasta, ricotta too Monterrey Jack cheese. It makes the BEST luncheon on twenty-four hours two!!

Not the best photo, but trust me, it's fantabulous !!

½ loving cup onion chopped
½ loving cup celery chopped
1 loving cup chopped carrot
½ loving cup chopped ruby pepper
2 cups sliced mushrooms
2 cups diced zucchini
1 loving cup dark beans
1 clove garlic minced
(1) 12 ounce tin Lycopersicon esculentum paste
5 cups water
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon dry out oregano
1 teaspoon dry out sugariness basil1 teaspoon fennel seed (don't exit out)
scant ¼ teaspoon ruby pepper flakes2 teaspoons brownish sugar2 cups modest pasta cooked
ricotta cheese2 cups Monterrey Jack cheese (grated)
2 tablespoon butter

 

In a large, deep pan, saute the onion, celery too garlic (in the butter) until the are sweet, too then scoot them to ane side of the pan. In the same pan, saute the residue of the raw veggies until they showtime to wilt. Add everything else (except the pasta too cheeses) too simmer slowly, for close an lx minutes (without a lid hence the sauce volition thicken up). After an hour, stir inward the cooked pasta too 1 loving cup of cheese.

To gather this dish, pour one-half of the veggie mixture into a greased baking dish too transcend with modest dollops of ricotta cheese (randomly over the mixture...but non a venture layer). Top amongst the other one-half of the veggie mixture too comprehend amongst shredded Monterrey Jack cheese. Bake at 350 for close 25 minutes.

NOTE: You tin role whatever combination of veggies that your menage unit of measurement likes inward this dish.

NOTE: Any modest pasta volition work, only brand certain that when it is cooked, it is seize amongst teeth size or the same size every bit the chopped veggies.