When you heard the phrase “feta recipe” just a few months ago, you may have envisioned a lettuce-free and fully-loaded Greek salad, spinach-stuffed spanakopita or perhaps an herb-spiked watermelon-feta salad.
But everything changed the day cheese-loving TikTok-ers resurfaced Finnish food blogger Jenni Häyrinen’s “Uunifetapasta,” or oven-baked feta pasta. She originally posted the how-to in 2019, but after a few other popular social media stars posted their own renditions, baked feta pasta officially became the biggest viral food trend of 2021 so far. (Case in point: To date, #bakedfetapasta has nearly 68 million views on TikTok.)
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Many EatingWell editors and several popular bloggers including Smitten Kitchen, Just a Taste and Gimme Some Oven have all tried and raved about the original, and now Martha Stewart is putting her own twist on the trend.
We love that Stewart’s variation is even easier to whip up come winter since it relies on pantry staples instead of fresh tomatoes (which taste best come summer, but still work well in the colder months once roasted, as they are in the baked feta pasta). Plus it can be served as an appetizer—scoop up with crostini or crudités—or mixed with pasta just like the OG version.
We can’t wait to try the original Baked Feta-Marinara Dip recipe, as-is, then keep riffing on the theme by trading goat cheese or halloumi for the feta and romesco, pesto or butternut squash pasta sauce for the marinara. Let the feta-fest continue!
martha stewart Credit: Getty Images / Arnold Turner / Stringer
martha stewart
Credit: Getty Images / Arnold Turner / Stringer
