Baked Tomato and Goat Cheese Pasta

My favorite "casserole" recipe includes baked tomatoes and goat cheese served over pasta with fresh basil, garlic, Parmesan cheese, and olive oil.

Looking for a fresh summer appetizer? This is it! Serve this baked goat cheese with tomatoes recipe over bruschetta or crostini (little toasts) instead of pasta.

This is a fresh and rich goat cheese and tomato pasta bake, but it's also light and summery at the same time.

This tomato and goat cheese bake is a standard recipe in our house six months out of the year with many different ingredient variations. Right now, we're super into pepperoncinis and capers.

The pickled pepperoncini's give this goat cheese tomato pasta some spice, the goat cheese cools it down and makes it creamy, and the capers give it tang.

Ingredient Variations for Baked Tomato and Goat Cheese Pasta

Baked tomato and goat cheese pasta has endless variations depending on what you have in your refrigerator. Try adding or substituting:

• feta cheese
• Parmesan cheese
• kalamata olives
• artichokes
• hearts of palm
• roasted red peppers

Want feta cheese instead of goat cheese pasta? Cool, the feta tik tok sensation video gave feta cheese a lot of well deserved play for an easy and killer pasta sauce.

The difference: Feta cheese makes this tomato bake more crumbly with a little of that briny feta flavor that's so delicious. However, goat cheese (aka chèvre) makes a smoother creamier sauce that coats the pasta a little better. Point is, this tomato and cheese bake is versatile and either cheese will work.

Don't have cherry tomatoes? Cool - just cut up any ripe tomato you got. Cherry tomatoes are delicious and look visually better. They pop open when roasted and release their liquid. However, tomato slicers or roma tomatoes are faster and easier to cut up and, therefore, minimize prep time.

How To Make Baked Tomato and Goat Cheese Faster

In a hurry and want to simplify this recipe?

• Leave out the fresh garlic (could sub garlic salt or powder or use jarred minced garlic)
• use large tomato slicers instead of cherry tomatoes
• Skip the fresh basil and use ½ teaspoon dried basil instead
• Skip the pepperoncinis and use crushed red pepper flakes instead.

Tomatoes baked with just goat cheese, olive oil, salt, and pepper is just as amazing. It also minimizes time on the cutting board while getting dinner on the table fast.

This baked goat cheese and tomato pasta recipe serves 6 as an appetizer or 3 as a main if you toss with pasta or zoodles.

Baked Goat Cheese and Tomato FAQS

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