Cheesy Turkey Pasta Bake
Ingredients
- 60 Cups Pasta, Penne (alt: macaroni)
- 5lb pack thawed and diced, Shady Brook Farms® Premium Thick Cut Oven-Roasted Turkey Breast
- 8 cups mozzarella cheese
- 2 cans Tomatoes, diced
- 50 teaspoons Dry Chili Pepper Flakes
- 12 ounces Onion, white, diced
- ¼ cup Garlic, finely chopped
- ¼ cup Olive oil, extra virgin
- 1 cup Tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon Black pepper
- 1 tablespoon Salt, kosher
- Chef tip: This recipe includes a homemade sauce; a pre-made sauce is a great substitute if on hand.
Instructions
- In a sauce pan, add oil, white onion and garlic and cook down. Add diced turkey.
- In Cambro oven, make the sauce by adding together diced tomato, tomato paste, chili flakes, black pepper, cooked onion, garlic, basil and blend with stick mixer.
- Place sauce in hotel pan and cook in a combi oven 60% steam and 350°F until internal temperature reaches 165°F.
- Cook pasta as directed in the recipe, then add sauce to pasta. Mix pasta with sauce and portion into 2 full-size hotel pans.
- Top with mozzarella and bake until golden and bubbly and internal temp reaches 160.