We love playing around with pasta recipes! We’ve found some great, inventive ways to use pasta, like baking it into a cheesy cake, making it into chips, or deep frying it on a stick, but none of our pasta recipes so far have used this new and exciting technique. Today we’re turning a whole pound of fettuccine pasta into a never-before-seen pasta roll. A cheesy pasta exterior gets baked, rolled up, and stuffed with a creamy homemade avocado pesto, crispy bacon, and fresh tomatoes. It’s a whole new way to eat a pasta that will leave you begging for more!
Stuffed Pasta Roll with Avocado Pesto and Bacon
Equipment
- Baking tray
- Parchment paper
- Immersion blender
Ingredients
- 1 lb fettuccine pasta cooked
- 1 cup grated parmesan
- 3 eggs
- pepper to taste
- 4 avocados
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 cups basil
- 0.5 cup parsley
- 1 cup grated parmesan cheese
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- 0.25 cup olive oil
- lemon juice optional
- 8 strips bacon chopped & fried
- 2 tomatoes diced
- 0.75 cup tomato sauce
- cherry tomatoes halved
- fresh basil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F and line a baking tray with parchment paper. Boil the fettuccine pasta in salted water, drain it, and let it cool. Stir in the eggs and grated parmesan cheese, then season with pepper. Spread the fettuccine mixture on the baking tray, moisten your hands, and press the pasta down into the baking tray so that it lies as flat as possible.
- Transfer the baking tray to the oven and bake at 400°F for 9 minutes. Remove the baking tray from the oven, use the parchment paper underneath to help roll pasta up while it's still warm, then let the pasta roll cool.
- Place the avocado, garlic, basil, parsley, parmesan, olive oil, salt & pepper in a large mixing bowl. For the best results, add the juice of 1 lemon to keep the avocado pesto fresh and green. Use an immersion blender to blend everything into a creamy spread.
- Unroll the pasta roll and spread the avocado pesto on it, leaving about 2 inches uncovered on 1 end.
- Sprinkle the fried pieces of bacon and diced tomatoes on top of the layer of avocado pesto and use the parchment paper underneath to help roll everything up into a snug log.
- Place the roll on a serving platter with the open edge facing downwards, then brush a thin layer of tomato sauce over the entire surface of the pasta roll. Garnish it with fresh basil and halved cherry tomatoes.
VIDEO
Are you ready to change up your pasta routine? Then this pasta roll is the quick & easy dish you’ve been looking for! The avocado pesto and crispy bacon add irresistible flavor to an inventive new dish.