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Baked pasta muffins is a delicious fun to make kid's dish they would enjoy eating as well as making. Cheese, pasta and vegetables or spinach combo.
Some recipes just push us to try it out immediately. This baked pasta muffins or Baked macaroni and cheese cupcakes is one such recipe, which just gave me so much energy to try it out immediately when I watched Giada’s show in Food Network channel.
She made this along with kids and the show was really enjoyable and cute with the kids.
Obviously Aj too was tempted and wanted to make it. So you can see him making in the stepwise pictures😎.
So this is fun and easy enough for your kids too to try. Do let them make when they are at home in holidays.
They will sure enjoy making and enjoy eating this delicious pasta, also they will be super proud that they made it 🙂
Instructions
- Cook pasta as per package instructions with salt. Drain and keep aside. After cooled down, mix with grated mozzarella. Preheat oven at 190 deg. C. Grease a muffin pan with olive oil. Dust it with bread crumbs generously. Tap off the excess crumbs. Fill with the pasta/cheese mix.
- Top with the vegetables of your choice. I used broccoli, spinach(both blanched) and onion,tomato and capsicum. I used broccoli in 2, spinach in 2 separately and onion tomato capsicum together in 2 muffins. Top again with mozzarella if you want, or just with the parmesan.
- Then sprinkle bread crumbs evenly over every muffin and drizzle some olive oil over it.
- Bake this for 15 – 18 minutes or until a golden crust is formed. Cool down for 4 minutes and spoon out each one carefully.
Your kids or even you would love to dig in this one. Great snack time treat! You can sprinkle over the chilli flakes if you want it spicy.
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Baked pasta muffins
Baked pasta muffins is a delicious fun to make kid's dish they would enjoy eating as well as making. Cheese, pasta and vegetables or spinach combo.
Course Snack
Cuisine Fusion
Prep Time 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time 2 minutes minutes
Author Raks Anand
Servings 8 muffins
Cup measurements
Ingredients
- ½ cup Macaroni or any tiny pasta shape
- ½ cup Grated mozzarella
- 2 tablespoon Grated parmesan
- ¼ cup Bread crumbs
- 3 tablespoon Olive oil
- Chopped vegetables, spinach
- Salt
- ½ teaspoon Dry Italian herb oregano, basil
- 1 teaspoon Chilli flakes optional
Instructions
Cook pasta as per package instructions with salt. Drain and keep aside.
After cooled down, mix with grated mozzarella. Preheat oven at 190 deg. C.
Grease a muffin pan with olive oil. Dust it with bread crumbs generously. Tap off the excess crumbs. Fill with the pasta/cheese mix.
Top with the vegetables of your choice. I used broccoli, spinach(both blanched) and onion,tomato and capsicum. I used broccoli in 2, spinach in 2 separately and onion tomato capsicum together in 2 muffins.
Top again with mozzarella if you want, or just with the parmesan.
Then sprinkle bread crumbs evenly over every muffin and drizzle some olive oil over it.
Bake this for 15 – 18 minutes or until a golden crust is formed.
Cool down for 4 minutes and spoon out each one carefully.
Notes
- I have made this 2-3 times and the first time I dint dust the muffin pan initially with bread crumbs (when I clicked these stepwise pictures). Then realized its necessary for a nice crusty layer that helps in holding the shape too. So don't skip that step.
- You can mix as less as ¼ cup cheese with the pasta. This cheese also helps in binding the pasta together and hold its shape.Me and Aj liked every topping in this. But you can use your favourite vegetable for topping that you think will go well in this recipe.
- Depending upon the oven model, the baking time may vary. So bake until you get a crusty golden coloured top.
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Kaveri Venkatesh
Too Good Raji! I'm sure if my daughter sees this she'll want me to make it for her immediately 🙂
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Sudha Sabarish
Wow that's nice to have pasta in the form of muffins.Surely kids would love to do this.
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LG
Good treat for kids:)
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Aarthi
lovely..will try that soon.
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Vimitha Anand
Great kids recipe... Will try soon
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Reshmi V
Yummy, so simple and easy. You know what I am gonna try this Sunday...chilli cheese toast and chocolate cake and my little boy will assist me. 🙂 I came across a blog on Sunday baking with kids...the blog is called Humpty Bumpty Kids...it has truly inspired me.
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Nivedhanams Sowmya
Unbelivably kid friendly dish!!! kids would just love to do and eat this!!!! bookmarking it!!!
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Veena Theagarajan
too good and too hard to resist
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Sathya Sankar
Happy New Year Raji! Perfect snack and pictures are very tempting.
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Kalpana Sareesh
wow so innovative.. this shd be awesome n yumm
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Prabha
Fab clicks and cute looking pasta!lovely
Archana
How Wow Raks this is great. I need to make these too. Great way for cranky tiffin boxes
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Lubna Karim
Such a simple and yum recipe....love to give it a try.....
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Meena Selvakumaran
Easy & Yummy treat for kids.
Please do visit my space and leave your comments too.
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prathibha Garre
Thats a nice post raji,that last picture is a killer with oozing cheese
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Sharmilee! :)
Love the stepwise with Aj 🙂 pasta muffins looks very tempting and lovely idea too!
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Chitra
Nice to c Aj kutty's making:) Lovely post :)will try for raksha 🙂
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Chella KS Nathan
very innovative and tempting:)
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Priya
Simple and excellent pasta muffins, prefect for lazy dinner.
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Uma
awesome!.. nothing is more comforting than cheesy goodness
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Dipti Joshi
Great recipe for kids! even we can enjoy it 🙂
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Aruna
Hey Raks, Happy New Year to you and your family!!! Yes, I have seen that show too and I also have made this 🙂 my kid and my hubby dear loved it... very cute recipe right... as usual, lovely pictures 🙂
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Uma Ramanujam
Drooling here Raks. Aj made it perfectly. Cheese and pasta attract not only kids, but also adults too. looks yumm and Happy New Year Raks!!!
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Swasthi Blank
Happy New year Raji. I made these today after reading your post. they turned out fabulous. i have posted it in my space.Thanks a tons for sharing this lovely recipe. Do visit my post in your free time
http://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/2013/01/baked-pasta-muffins-recipe-kids-pasta.html
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Poornima Nair
Love the love pasta muffins. I usually make the same thing in a big pan for a quick lunch or dinner. Like the use of the muffin pan for this.
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dishesfrommykitchen
This is absolutely kids and adults favorite. I too make this as minis as well as in big tray.. this is absolutely good one for b'day parties and potluck too.
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divya
beautiful click.. n presentation.. looks so yumm
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Sushma Madhuchandra
a killer dish! Great pictures too.
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Uma
lovely dish. muffins look so delicious and definitely a kid favorite.
Happy new year to you and your family!
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anu
Yummy to the tummy
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Krithi Karthi
Yumm..
Janani
Just 10 min before I was watching it in my tv lovely muffin right was thinking of making it along with her raspberry sherbet.Beautiful click dear.
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Nagalakshmi V
What a great and fun idea!
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Amina
wow... the muffins look fantastic...
Wish you a very happy new year...Reply
runnergirlinthekitchen.blogspot.com
Totally yummy.. kids will love this!
Wish you a Happy New Year!Reply
Amrita Vishal
loved this..such a fun idea
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Sanoli Ghosh
Looks fabulous pasta muffins, amazing a must try recipe dear.
today's recipe:
http://sanolisrecipies.blogspot.in/2013/01/runner-beans-shim-bharta.htmlReply
Akanksha Verma
just a wow recipe, let me know if I can publish this in my DnS magazine.
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ushaprashanth
Wow! Pasta muffins!!! Very innovative!
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Vijitha
Awesome recipe. I will add sun dried tomato and spinach to it and kids will love it.
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APARNARAJESHKUMAR
gr8 idea with AJ i love the photo that he lifts the muffin ! too good
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WeR SAHM
food with kids ...its really friendly n inviting recipe...must try...
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Jiboombaa
Baked macaroni looks awesome and yum! absolutely kids love them...
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Ramya Krishnamurthy
xummy muffins.looks so crunchy
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Akanksha Verma
Congratulations! your recipe is published in DNS magazine
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Apu
Delicious!! Loving these muffins.
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Jeyashrisuresh
Very interesting kids friendly recipe. Nicely done and so sweet of Ajay to help u
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Harini
Looks amazingly delicious. Should try it out soon!
Love the new look on your blog 🙂Reply
Radhika
Wow tht's easy n lukg YUM..will try it soon..ur Blog's new luk is Fantastic Raks..Happy new Yr.
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PriyaVaasu
Very different raks! ! Kuttu too loves to help me in baking if it is his favorite recipe, I think he would definitely love this !!!!
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vani
What a delicious recipe! Ideal for kids! My son loved it!
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yumyum82
Thank you for all the lovely recipes!! I have become a lot better in cooking Indian food because of you 🙂
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Anonymous
hi raks,
i tried this recipe for my kids.
after eating this muffins my kid is saying "mama, this is very nice." even my husband also like this.thanks for this yummy delicious recipe.
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Shweta Rahul
Hi raks,
I tried it yday and the taste was simply awesome 🙂 but i had a few problems with the macaroni as it did not stick together. The bread crumbs also did not form a solid base. Wat could have gone wrong. Pls help me outReply
Raks anand
Mix more cheese next time with pasta. Do not mix pasta with oil as it prevents sticking together. Mozzarella is recommended as it helps binding. Add more bread crumbs at the bottom next time and try . Hope I helped you a bit.
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Shweta
Thanks Raks 🙂 Will incorporate ur tips next time and let u know how it turns out 🙂
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Shazia Wahid
Hi Raks
Just wondering did you use actual parmesan or another vegetarian hard cheese?Reply
Raks anand
I used store bought grated parmesan cheese
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Shazia Wahid
Just asked as parmesan cheese is not suitable for vegetarians as it is made using animal rennet.
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PoWeRrAnGeR
Amazing recipe! Will surely try it out 🙂
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v praveena
Kids will love this.........Yummy recipe..:-)
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Poppy
hey can u please tell me if i can make this recipe in the microwave............
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Raks anand
Nope
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Sameera Tallapragada
what is temperature we have to bake
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Raks anand
Baking temperature is same as preheated temperature always - 190 deg C
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Unknown
Can i make this before some hrs of party? Will it remain crispy?
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Raks anand
Yes hoping so
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Vidhya Sundar
This recipe was very tempting and I tried it today. Taste was awesome but it didn't hold the shape. Should we pack it too tight?
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Priya Balaji
This is awesome .. Very tempting ..!! Defintely will give a try..
Raks , Will this dish work for lunch box ???
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Raks anand
I guess it will work, haven't tried though.
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Lavanya
Hi , thank you for the wonderful recipe. Instead of parmesan cheese can i use mozzarella cheese fully?
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Raks Anand
Yeah sure 🙂
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