are a quick and easy meal, but can get a bit samey if you're having them all the time. A shared her hack for changing up the classic dinner with one unusual ingredient.

TikTok user @ashleighhh97 walked her followers through her secret to making pasta bake extra crunchy - using crisps. To make a bake, prepare pasta in a sauce as normal, whether that's macaroni cheese or spaghetti bolognese. Then, put it in an oven dish. Once it's ready, Ashleigh adds in a packet of crumbled ready salted . Crumble them by cutting a hole in the packet and using a rolling pin to crush the crisps into small pieces.

She opens the packet and pours these on top of the pasta, covering it with cheese to keep all the crisps in place and prevent burning in the oven.

Pop it in a preheated oven (180C) for about 10 minutes - this will leave the cheese melted, the crisps crunchy and the pasta hot. Dish it up with a salad and enjoy!

Ashleigh's video impressed many fellow Tiktok users, receiving over 800 comments and 45.5k likes. One user said: "My mum always did this when I was a kid, thought she was the only one, delicious! I always do this, it's a winner."

This hack is easy to switch up. If you'd like to add flavour as well as crunch, you could add a different flavoured crisp, such as cheese and onion or salt and vinegar, and if you want different texture, you could add a Hula Hoop or a Pom-Bear.

This is not the first pasta recipe to become popular on TikTok, with Finnish blogger @liemessa's baked feta pasta recipe going viral.

Her recipe included a block of feta cheese, tomatoes, olive oil, salt and pepper being baked then tossed with spaghetti to make a salty and creamy sauce.