We Tried The TikTok Recipe For Baked Feta Pasta + We're SOLD (2024)

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How did baked feta pasta gain recognition? ›

Though Tiiu Piret posted a version of the dish on her blog in February 2018, fellow Finnish blogger Jenni Hayrinen is credited with making uunifetapasta (Finnish for “oven-baked feta pasta”) go viral in her country after posting her simplified version a year later.

The recipe first caught fire in Finland in 2018, after the food blogger Jenni Hayrinen made uunifetapasta, Finnish for oven-baked feta pasta. (It was a streamlined version of a dish called Prosecco spaghetti and oven tomatoes, made by Tiiu Piret, another Finnish food blogger.)

Baked Feta Pasta (TikTok Pasta)

The ever so popular Baked Feta Pasta! It's a hearty dish made with roasted tomatoes, creamy lightly tangy feta, al dente pasta, and fresh spinach and herbs.

Feta cheese can be made from sheep's milk or a combination of sheep and goat milks. Most cheese lovers say the best comes from sheep's milk. But keep in mind, true Feta cheese will contain, at most, 30% goat's milk. Feta is one of the world's oldest cheeses.

The special thing about feta is that although is a matured cheese (3–4 months), retains humidity and acidity, so it helps the digestion of food and doesn't leave a fatty aftertaste. Feta is a Greek cheese (70% sheep milk + 30% goat milk) but a lot of other variations around the Balkans have similar taste and effects.

Feta (Greek: φέτα, féta) is a Greek brined white cheese made from sheep's milk or from a mixture of sheep and goat's milk.

The word “Feta” means slice or slab in Greek. That term originated in the 17th century—before then, Feta was just called “cheese” in Greece—and refers to the tradition of slicing up cheese and placing it in barrels, a practice that continues to this day.

French Feta is made with Lacaune sheep's milk (if you remember, that's the sheep breed used for Roquefort production). It has a softer and creamier texture that Greek Feta and a milder, less tangy flavor (though it's sharper than Israeli Feta).

Use quality feta cheese.

Find creamy Greek feta. French or Bulgarian white cheese will work great too (which are like feta but can not be given the term because Greece has the PDO for the term "feta").

She explained that French feta, made of 100% sheep's milk, is the least salty of the three. Bulgarian may be made of sheep and/or goat, while Greek feta will be primarily sheep's milk and sometimes up to 30% goat's milk ― both are a little saltier than French.

What is the history of baked pasta? ›

Baked pasta can ideally be divided in two big categories: the version with béchamel was born in the Renaissance courts of the Center and North, as a poorer variant of meat pies, from which probably derive very famous dishes such as baked lasagna and Emilian cannelloni; the so-called pasta 'nfurnata or pasta 'ncasciata ...

Feta cheese has been a part of Greece for nearly as long as humanity itself. It derives from the very first cheese made around 8,000 years ago, which was made soon after people began domesticating animals. Historians believe that milk began to ferment while being transported in the stomach of a goat or sheep.

A History of Baked Goodness

A pasta meal was an opportunity for a chef to show off his creativity and resourcefulness. Eventually baked pasta, or pasta al forno, was adopted all over Italy. Today, baked pasta is a staple dish of Southern Italy, where it's usually made on Sundays, holidays and special occasions.

Since 1926, feta is recognized as an original Greek product according to national legislation. Feta was always an integral part of the dietary habits of Greek people, while its existence is connected so much with Greek history, as well as with the Greek traditional way of life.