TikTok s viral baked feta pasta is worth the hype
A recipe for pasta with a baked feta and tomato sauce goes viral on social media. (Washington Post photo by Aaron Hutcherson)
Published February 23. 2021 7:28AM
Aaron Hutcherson, The Washington Post
My initial sentiment toward viral food moments tends to fall between immense skepticism (the tortilla hack ) and downright disdain (mermaid toast). The latest trend to hit the social media airwaves, baked feta pasta, is an outlier in that I was a believer from the jump. It s a low-effort recipe for pasta with tomatoes and cheese what s not to love?
Though Tiiu Piret posted a version of the dish on her blog in February 2018, fellow Finnish blogger Jenni Hayrinen is credited with making uunifetapasta (Finnish for oven-baked feta pasta ) go viral in her country after posting her simplified version a year later. The stores actually ran out of feta cheese here, Hayrinen told Today.
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The tomato dish that’s reported to have caused a feta shortage in Finland. Renée S. Suen Updated (Photo: Renée S. Suen)
First, it was Dalgona coffee, then it was mini pancake cereal, but it wasn’t until I started seeing the same dish of roasted tomatoes pop up all over Facebook that I wondered about its legitimacy. Does it work? Is it actually delicious?
The phenomenon in question is an almost foolproof recipe for baked feta pasta that’s exploded across the video-sharing platform TikTok.
Known as UuniFetaPasta Finnish for oven-baked feta pasta the recipe caused such a sensation that it’s purported to have caused a feta shortage in the country. However, this isn’t the low-effort noodle dish’s first crack at fame.