It's pasta, cheese and tomatoes - of course it's delicious. So you might be wondering, as many people in TikTok comments have wondered, is it actually any good? I had some reservations - we're going all-in on fresh tomatoes in February? Really? - but as someone who would eat pasta for every meal if that was a socially acceptable lifestyle choice, it didn't take much to convince me.
(The feta pasta hashtag on the platform now boasts almost 515 million views.)Īfter seeing the recipe pop up on my For You page a dozen or so times and then seeing it cross over to Instagram, I finally decided to take one of the several blocks of feta that sit in my fridge at all times and give it a whirl. At the end of January, a number of TikTok creators picked up on the recipe and helped send it viral.
In case you haven't already heard of it, the TikTok feta pasta is a recipe that can be traced back to Finnish food blogger Jenni Hayrinen, who told Today that it became so popular in Finland that stores there ran out of feta. Finally, I already eat so much feta it feels like Greece might one day thank me for personally contributing such a significant wedge of my income to its GDP. Second, despite having a whole library of cookbooks, I seem to almost exclusively pick up new recipes from TikTok these days. First, it is almost ridiculously easy to cook.
It's shocking for a few reasons that it took me so long to make the feta pasta that went viral on TikTok a few weeks ago.