- You guys have loved my baked feta pasta recipe so much,
and you've made it the number one recipe on my site
with millions of page views,
and today we're making something
inspired by baked feta pasta.
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Hey guys, I'm Yumna, AKA FeelGoodFoodie,
and I love the concept of
baking tomatoes and feta cheese together so much
that I really wanna turn it into soup.
So this baked feta pasta soup
is basically a tomato-based soup
that's loaded with salty feta cheese, juicy cherry tomatoes,
lots of fresh basil and short cut orzo pasta.
It has all the fresh and tangy flavor of baked feta pasta
but in soup form, and I think you're really gonna love it.
So let's get started because it's officially soup season.
We're gonna start by adding two pints of cherry tomatoes
to an oven-safe baking dish,
and then we'll add to it some salt and pepper.
And now we'll add a fourth of a cup of olive oil
and give it all a good toss.
When it comes to baking tomatoes,
it's important to really crowd the dish
because we want them to become juicy and create a sauce
from all the tomatoes being crowded together
in a small dish like this.
So now what we're gonna do
is we're gonna take a block of feta cheese
and add it right into the middle of the baking dish.
And what I like to do
is just kinda flip it around a couple of times
so that the feta cheese gets some of the olive oil,
salt, and pepper all over it,
and just kind of mix it around a little bit like this.
And if you want,
you can add a couple of scrunches of pepper right on top.
Now we're gonna bake it in the preheated oven
for 30 to 35 minutes until the feta cheese melts
and those tomatoes start to burst.
So while the tomatoes and the feta cheese
are baking in the oven,
we're gonna go ahead and get started on the soup.
We'll start with about a tablespoon of olive oil,
add about half an onion,
and season with salt, pepper,
and crushed red pepper to taste.
I'm just gonna use about a fourth of a teaspoon of it.
And let's just cook this for a few minutes
until the onions are translucent.
So an important tip to keep in mind when you're cooking soup
is to flavor as you go.
Make sure to add salt and pepper
to every ingredient that you add as you're cooking the soup.
Now we'll add four cloves of garlic,
a 28 ounce can of crushed tomatoes.
These are fire roasted so they add a ton of flavor,
or you can just get regular,
a tablespoon of fresh thyme
and four cups of vegetable stock.
And because the veggie broth I'm using is low sodium,
I do like to add a little bit of salt and pepper again,
just so that we're flavoring as we go.
At this point, we're just gonna let it simmer
until the baked feta and tomatoes
are done cooking in the oven,
and then we'll put everything together.
All right, the baked feta and the tomatoes
are all done cooking.
Look how juicy those tomatoes look
and the feta cheese is nice and melty.
All right, now we're gonna transfer
the baked feta and tomatoes
right into the pot of soup that we just started.
And the easiest way to do this
is just to spoon everything right into the pot of soup.
Look at that feta cheese, nice and melty,
and then make sure to grab all those juices in there
because that's what's really gonna flavor it.
Final step is to add the orzo pasta
right into the of soup and mix everything together.
Okay, we're gonna let this simmer
for about seven to eight minutes
until the orzo pasta is cooked through,
and then we're ready to serve it.
All right, the soup is all ready.
You guys, look how good this looks.
The orzo is nice and cooked,
the tomatoes are bursting with flavor,
and the feta cheese just kinda melted in there
so it creates this like beautiful, creamy red sauce.
Let's serve this up because it smells so good
and I cannot wait to dig in.
And since the feta cheese is all melted in there,
I do like to add a little bit of feta cheese on top
and some fresh basil just to freshen it all up.
All right, time for a taste test.
Let's get a bite with some of the tomatoes, some basil,
fresh feta and orzo.
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You guys, that is so good.
There is so much to love about this recipe,
and I hope you love it as much as I do.
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