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20 minute Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake

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This hearty Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake is full of delicious fresh vegetables, loaded with cheese, and best of all only takes ONE pot to make! Your family will beg for this meal!

This hearty Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake is full of delicious fresh vegetables, loaded with cheese, and best of all only takes ONE pot to make! Your family will beg for this meal!In an effort to spend more time as a family eating, we decided to throw together an Easy Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake for dinner. Taking less than 20 minutes from start to finish, it is a super quick and easy family friendly meal. Who doesn’t love pasta, anyway?!

This hearty Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake is full of delicious fresh vegetables, loaded with cheese, and best of all only takes ONE pot to make! Your family will beg for this meal!

How to make 20 Minute Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake:

  • Chop up the vegetables. I like fresh zucchini and mushrooms, but you could also add asparagus, yellow squash, broccoli, cauliflower, or whatever vegetables you like best.
  • Boil water in a large pot, and add the noodles. When there is about 2 minutes left until the noodles are finished, add the chopped vegetables into the water. Cook 2 more minutes then drain the noodles and vegetables.
  • Add everything back to the empty pot, then pour the sauce into the pot, add a handful of mozzarella cheese, and mix everything up!

This hearty Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake is full of delicious fresh vegetables, loaded with cheese, and best of all only takes ONE pot to make! Your family will beg for this meal!

  • Pour the pasta mixture into a baking dish, add more cheese and Italian seasonings on the top, then broil for a few minutes to melt and brown the cheese- YUM!

What to serve with Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake:

  • Want to add more protein to your Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake? Whip up Skinny Baked Chicken Parmesan to serve alongside the pasta. This chicken dish is healthy and only takes about 20 minutes to cook as well!
  • Make homemade garlic bread! This Best Ever Easy Garlic Bread recipe has been pinned over 20,000 times and there is a reason why – it’s EAST, DELICIOUS, and a PERFECT SIDE DISH!
  • I love making an easy Wedge Salad to serve with this Easy Cheesy Veggie Pasta Bake as well. Go all out and make homemade chunky bleu cheese dressing for the wedge salad and your family will thank you!

Items you may need to make this dish:

  • Colander for straining the pasta and vegetables.
  • large pot is essential for boiling the pasta and vegetables, then mixing with sauce after straining.
  • A baking dish will be used to broil the pasta dish. It needs to be oven safe!
  • A cutting board will be needed to chop the vegetables!
  • My Favorite santoku knife is going to help you chop your vegetables like a pro!

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20 Minute Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake
Prep Time
5 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 

This hearty Cheesy Vegetable Pasta Bake is full of delicious fresh vegetables, loaded with cheese, and best of all only takes ONE pot to make! Your family will beg for this meal!

Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
  • 1 lb pasta (your choice, I like spirals or bow ties for this recipe!)
  • 1 medium zucchini , chopped
  • 8 oz baby bella mushrooms , diced (other variety would be fine too)
  • 16 ounces pasta sauce , your choice on type - I like marinara or a chunky vegetable variety
  • 1 cup mozzarella cheese , shredded and divided
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese , shredded
  • 1 TBS Italian seasoning
Instructions

  1. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add pasta and cook according to package directions. When there is 2 minutes left before the pasta is done, add zucchini and mushrooms into pot. Cook remaining 2 minutes. Strain.

  2. Preheat broiler on high.

  3. Add pasta sauce to pot, then add the strained pasta/veggies into the sauce. Mix well. Add 1/3 cup of mozzarella cheese into pot. Mix well.

  4. Grease a large casserole dish with cooking spray, and then dump pasta mixture into baking dish. Top with remaining 2/3 cup mozzarella and 1/4 cup parmesan cheeses. Sprinkle Italian seasoning over the top.

  5. Place under the broiler and cook for 3-5 minutes. Watch closely as it can burn quickly and cook time depends on oven. When the cheese is bubbly and browning remove from oven.

  6. Serve and enjoy!

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  12. Your recipe looks delicious! I love the idea behind this campaign. It’s so important for families to eat together more, especially in today’s busy world.

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  17. Love the Share the Table message! As a kid we ALWAYS ate family dinner and I really think that is one of the reasons why my siblings and I are still so close. We learned how to talk and communicate over our daily dinner. – Katy

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  23. A dish that looks that good in only 20 minutes?! Sign me up. We love pasta in our house so I am always searching for quick and easy recipes to try for busy nights. Anything that tastes good and comes together in under 30 minutes is a total win!

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  24. I love what Barilla is doing and I definitely can relate with such busy lifestyles with three children in activities, school, and working from home, having dinner made quickly is critical in the Rogers household. This looks so good, I will be stopping at store just to pick this up today. Thank you for the suggestion and recipe!

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    • Yes, that would totally work but may take a little more time to melt the cheese! I would put it at 400-450 and watch as it melts!

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  28. Do you have any other suggestions of veggies instead of the mushrooms that would work with this cooking method? I didnt know you could throw veggies in the pasta water and they would cook! Could you do it with peppers, carrots, anything like that?

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    • I haven’t tried any other veggies, but I probably wouldn’t recommend carrots. I think peppers, zucchini, summer squash, asparagus would all work!

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  34. 5 stars
    WOW!! That cheese is ahhmaaazing!! My family would love, LOVE this dish!! I can’t wait to make it!!

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