Baked Italian Sausage Rigatoni Casserole
Recipe: #19597
June 16, 2015
Categories: Comfort Food, Dinner, Main Dish, Casseroles, Pork, Pork Sausage, Pasta, Budget-Friendly, Easy/Beginner Cooking, Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake more
"This was really good when I made it and I`ve made it more than once we all (my family) loved it all the times I made it so I want to post it here, I have sort of a large family so I needed to increase amounts by another half and bake it in a large dish"
Original recipe yields 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (344.1 g)
- Calories 609.1
- Total Fat - 35 g
- Saturated Fat - 13.8 g
- Cholesterol - 82 mg
- Sodium - 1767.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 40.6 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5.9 g
- Sugars - 8.9 g
- Protein - 32.6 g
- Calcium - 485.2 mg
- Iron - 1.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 2.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 11x7-inch (2-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray. Cook pasta only half the time that is on the package, then drain the pasta.
Step 2
In a skillet, cook sausage meat over medium-high heat 5 to 7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thoroughly cooked; drain all the fat.
Step 3
In a bowl mix together the halfway cooked pasta, beef, pasta sauce and 1 cup of the mozzarella cheese (I always add in more mozza cheese) and cottage cheese, then you add salt and pepper.
Step 4
Sprinkle with remaining 1 cup mozzarella cheese and then the Parmesan cheese over the top.
Step 5
Bake uncovered 20-30 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.
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