Baked rotini with meat sauce
Baked rotini with meat sauce

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, baked rotini with meat sauce. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

When you need an easy, hearty casserole, combine cooked ground meat with onions, salt, pepper and ready-made spaghetti sauce. Stir in boiled rotini pasta and bake with mozzarella cheese over the top. Remove bay leaves, taste and adjust seasonings, adding salt if needed.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have baked rotini with meat sauce using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked rotini with meat sauce:
  1. Make ready 2 cup rotini noodles
  2. Take 1 1/2 cup ground beef
  3. Prepare 1/2 medium green pepper
  4. Prepare 1/2 medium yellow pepper
  5. Prepare 1/4 medium yellow onion
  6. Take 1 can pasta sauce
  7. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  8. Take 1 tsp pepper
  9. Get 1 clove garlic
  10. Prepare 1 tsp basil
  11. Take 1 1/4 cup mozzarella
  12. Make ready 1 cup cheddar

Please let me know in the comments how the dish turned out for you if you make it at home and snap a photo and share it on Social Media using the hashtag #ketchumkitchen. Feel free to add in ground beef, sausage, or even pepperoni to this baked rotini for a heartier dish. In place of cottage cheese, ricotta cheese can be used. For another option, you can easily replace the ground beef in this rigatoni pasta bake with ground turkey.

Steps to make Baked rotini with meat sauce:
  1. Preheat oven to 375
  2. Brown ground beef
  3. Boil water and add rotini. Cook for 9 minutes.
  4. Drain beef and add spices
  5. Finely chop the veggies and add to beef
  6. Drain pasta and add to beef mixture
  7. Put mixture into a baking dish 9x11
  8. Put cheese on top
  9. Put pasta sauce on top and cover noodles
  10. Add one more handful of cheese on top
  11. Put in oven for 20 minutes

Rigatoni is a big, ridged, tubular type of pasta and is used in many saucy, cheesy pasta bakes like this baked rigatoni with meat sauce. The ridges in the noodle help catch the sauce, giving every bite a punch of flavor. For this baked pasta recipe, you'll need: pasta - spaghetti, penne, rigatoni, elbow, twirl, etc. olive oil - if you omit the onion, you will not need the olive oil; onion - optional; oregano - use dried oregano if you plan to make ahead this recipe as a freezer meal Instructions. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Brown ground meat and drain excess fat.

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