Recipe
Vegan Baked Feta Pasta with Under Ten Ingredients
For the past few months, TikTok has been dominated by this easy one-pan baked feta pasta. It's creamy, salty, quick, easy and cheap. What more could you ask for?
I watched countless TikToks with many variations yet none of them were vegan. After weeks of seeing these TikToks, I decided I would wait no longer and make a vegan version of this popular dish.
The key to achieving the creamy yet salty funk of feta was the Violife Just Like Feta Block. It was relatively affordable at $5.53 and available at most supermarkets like Publix.
Vegan Baked Feta Pasta
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 25 mins
- Total Time: 35 mins
- Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 6 oz about 3/4 cups fresh cherry or grape tomatoes
- One 7 oz block Violife Just Like Feta
- 2 large sprigs basil
- One 12 oz box orecchiette pasta
- 5 cloves fresh garlic
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Crushed red pepper flakes
- 2 tablespoons vegan cream cheese optional
- Freshly ground black pepper
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Optional: If the sauce is not as creamy as you would like at this point, you can add about two tablespoons of a mild vegan cream cheese. I used Miyoko's Vegan Cream Cheese.
Step 5
Fantastic Feta
After making this pasta, I finally understand what all the hype was about. It is creamy, salty, tart, spicy and comforting. It took me about 35 minutes to make and about five minutes to clean up afterward. This is the perfect comfort food for finals week as it fills your belly and takes almost no effort. The vegan feta was rich and funky, just like real feta, but even creamier and easier to melt. I highly recommend this for anyone that is considering adding more vegan foods to their diet as it's filling, comforting and extremely easy.