That Viral Baked Feta Pasta Thing (Is Really Good, Actually) | Kenji's Cooking Show
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Finnish food blogs, not Swedish. My bad!
Here’s the original Uunifeta Pasta blog post:
Here’s an older article of mine about cooking pasta with less water:
Here’s another Serious Eats article with some generally good pasta advice:
Here’s Daniel Gritzer’s article and video about how and why adding pasta water to your sauce improves its texture and adhesion:
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The recipe first appeared on Finnish food blogs, not Swedish, I apologize to all Finns and Swedes!
Great video but please, please do not eat on mike. A lot of people turn homicidal when they hear another person masticating their food. Yuck!
I just picked tomatoes from my plants in my awesome garden. They've done lab tests on store bought mass produced GMO tomatoes and found they lacked 90% nutrition compared with home grown. You lose flavor with nutrition. We are growing in dead soil. The microbes break down the nutrients and feed them into the plants. Synthetic fertilizers, chlorinated water, pesticides, herbicides ect all kill microbes. Saw this on DW news I believe So proud. I built it when covid hit and learned how to grow some food and some herbs. I absolutely loved it. I ordered some new herb seeds I haven't tried yet. Medicinals. I'm learning. Medicinal herbs for SHTF. I have paper books on mushroom growing too. All kinds lol. I have a bunch of books I downloaded on all kinds of stuff. Cooking, preserving, gardening, homesteading, survival, knit and crocheting, sewing. I haven't read them all but I do read a lot. I love audiobooks but non fiction u gotta read.
New subscriber. Found your channel last night, watched 6 or so, continuing watching today and have subbed. Love it! Started using the smaller amount of water to boil pasta years ago, because I was too impatient to wait for a huge pot to boil. Discovered it made no difference, except the starch is more concentrated in the water – bonus! On board with cherry vs regular tomatoes in off season. Hadn't heard of this recipe but it does sound good. Wasn't a fan of feta until a Greek friend told me I needed to try real Greek feta. Totally different, and much better, than American feta.
his tongs had to have touched the floor when he opened the oven
I am making this comment before I watch the video, I've already got my own take on the baked feta pasta viral thing, though I continue to iterate and improve on it. I'm… legitimately surprised as to how good a sauce it makes when it comes together. It's neat to see other more famous people doing the same thing~
why is your camara angle weird ?
i feel you need to pet the dog
is there a web site that i can get the recipe from? so i can know the amounts needed ? i cant read finnish or swedish.
if i cant find greek feta, should i use a different cheese or just go with non greek feta ? i live in a small city, many times the store only sells one kind of a thing.
Would this be good if you cooked the pasta using the same method as your three ingredient Mac and cheese? Also would this work with paneer?
Thanks for the awesome content
look at your pup licking his lips
My son has made this for a few times! Love it and love that he has introduced me to your videos!
Can you use goat cheese instead of Feta? I don't like feta and my mom is lactose intolerant.
How many cups of coffee went into the making of this video?
The Simpsons joke was hilarious
where's the recipe?
Bothering to give us the science behind emulsions while casually stirring his pasta is what sets this guy apart and why I find myself returning to his channel.
4:23 hes right 100%
Would Israeli feta work for this? Typically the easiest one for me to find that is kosher certified.
If you add the pasta to cold water how do you measure the boiling time? Does it still start when the water starts boiling, or do you reduce the boiling time because the pasta was in the water til it started boiling?
Man sounds like he has a gun to his head
Half a box of pasta for two kids and an adult? I eat a whole box to myself 😅
Yet again Swedes are credited what the Finns have created. Great.
I just made this and put my own little spin on it. The entire family devoured it! 🤩
at 7:45, captions thought the water boiling was applause. I thought Kenji was applauding the noodle he just ate hahahah
A Japanese (sorta) man making a Finnish recipe using Greek and south american ingredients consumed by a Nigerian (sorta) woman. Yes. Food speaks all languages. It's called yum.
I make a quick and dirty variation of this on my little camping stove when I'm out hiking for a couple of nights: boil some pasta almost done, pour out most of the water, add some cherry tomatoes and feta cheese, and mix it all together while the pasta finishes cooking and the tomatoes break down.
Kenji, what if you put the tomatos, feta and pasta in a blender to make an emulsion… also part of me wants to try using san marzano (a can that has like no salt added)
The taste of Greece..Olive oil,feta,tomatoes,oregano..
Made it 3 times, it's easy and delicious. Third try im adding chicken breast. Lets see how it tastes 😋
I made basically the same version but I also added parsley and olives
1 lb tomatoes
4 cloves garlic
1/4 cup olive oil
Chili flakes
Basil
250g pasta
Thanks Kenji, not only are you showcasing awsome recipes you are teaching me how to cook. Your asides explaining why to do something are golden.
Am I the only one who found this dish to be extremely tart? Feta cheese with tomatoes is tart on tart. Did I use the wrong type of feta maybe? It was unbearable.
My pups always get a little taste of what they have been smelling while I cook, if it’s allowed for dogs. How can I resist making them happy also? My daughter is a DVM and she also lets her pups snack responsibly.
I stopped watching at the "American Feta"… wtf? There's no such thing!
Thanks for the rundown on this one, which I might have otherwise been reluctant to make based on the craze. Also tried the pasta from less and cold water method for the first time and it worked terrifically. Thanks.