Christian Henze
Express recipe from the star chef: oven spaghetti with feta in just 8 minutes
The oven spaghetti offers a great opportunity to use leftovers.
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Too tired to cook in the evening? Star chef Christian Henze reveals how you can get the delicious soul food dish from the oven onto your plate within a few minutes.
Everybody knows it. The cry of a ready-made pizza from the freezer is never as loud as after a long day. Then when all you really want to do is put your feet up and relax your head. The stomach, however, then likes to have other plans, demands to be filled – and as quickly as possible. But do you really have to swing the wooden spoon yourself for hours? No. Star chef Christian Henze has perfected express cooking.
In his new book “Feierabend Blitzrezepte Express”, he shows how it works – with a maximum of five main ingredients within 15 minutes. That’s his promise. In an interview with the star he said: “Cooking well has nothing to do with elaborate cooking and also nothing to do with many ingredients.” One of these fast food recipes is the oven spaghetti with feta. They are prepared in eight minutes, plus 10 minutes in the oven.
Oven spaghetti with feta for two
300 g cooked spaghetti from the previous day
150 g cherry tomatoes
100 g feta
5 tbsp olive oil
1 bunch of rocket
salt
black pepper from the mill
Preheat the oven to grill setting. Scald the spaghetti with boiling hot water, let it steep for a moment, drain and pour into a baking dish. In the meantime, wash the cherry tomatoes and cut them in half, and dice the feta. Add both with the oil to the hot spaghetti, mix and bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. In the meantime, wash the rocket, shake it dry and roughly cut into pieces. Take the tin out of the oven, mix the spaghetti well with two spoons and season with salt and pepper. Spread the rocket on top.
tip: This recipe is a great way to use leftover pasta. The spaghetti can of course also be freshly cooked – then process it while still dripping wet and hot.
A recipe from Christian Henze’s new cookbook: “After-work flash recipes express: a maximum of 15 minutes with only 5 ingredients“, which was published by Becker Joest Verlag, 192 pages, 24 euros.
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