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feta cheese

🥗Healthier: ricotta cheese

💰Cheaper: cottage cheese

Ricotta provides a similar creaminess with fewer calories.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated pecorino

Nutritional yeast is a dairy-free option that adds umami.

Preheat the oven to 90 degrees Celsius (194 degrees Fahrenheit).

In a baking dish, place the feta cheese in the center.

Add tomato sauce around the feta cheese.

Pour 1/4 cup of olive oil over the feta and sauce.

Sprinkle chili flakes and Italian seasoning on top.

Cut off the top of a garlic bulb and place it in aluminum foil.

Wrap the garlic in the foil and add it to the baking dish.

Bake everything in the oven for 30 minutes.

Once baked, reserve 1 cup of water from the pasta.

Cook the pasta according to package instructions.

Combine the baked feta and tomato sauce with the cooked pasta, adding reserved pasta water as needed.

Garnish with fresh basil leaves before serving.

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