German
Nudelauflauf mit Schinken und Kaese (Pasta Bake with Ham and Cheese)
Nudelauflauf mit Schinken und Kaese (Pasta Bake with Ham and Cheese) is German home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 12 oz dried pasta (penne or fusilli)
- 8 oz cooked ham, diced
- 3 eggs
- 1.5 cups milk
- 1.5 cups shredded cheese (Gouda or Emmental)
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1 tbsp butter, for the dish
How to cook it
- Preheat the oven to 400 F and cook the pasta in salted boiling water until just al dente, then drain.
- Butter a baking dish and toss in the cooked pasta, diced ham, and frozen peas.
- Whisk together the eggs, milk, nutmeg, salt, and pepper, and pour the mixture evenly over the pasta.
- Scatter the shredded cheese over the top.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the custard is set and the top is golden and bubbling, then let it rest for 5 minutes before serving.
Serve it with
A German dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Nudelauflauf mit Schinken und Kaese (Pasta Bake with Ham and Cheese), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Nudelauflauf mit Schinken und Kaese (Pasta Bake with Ham and Cheese) carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Backfisch (Pan-Fried Breaded Plaice) |
| Gluten | Yes | Bratkartoffeln (German Pan-Fried Potatoes) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Abendbrot-Teller mit Putenschinken (Cold Evening Bread Plate with Turkey Ham) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Meat or fish, Dairy, Egg, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Nudelauflauf mit Schinken und Kaese (Pasta Bake with Ham and Cheese) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
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From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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