Baked Baked Tri Color Rotini With Homemade Meat Sauce Recipes

5 INGREDIENT BAKED ROTINI

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Cook pasta 1-2 minutes less than package directions in salted boiling water. Drain pasta, reserving 1/2 cup cooking liquid.
• Mix cooked pasta and reserved cooking liquid together with the sauce, cottage cheese, egg, and 1 cup of shredded cheese.
• Pour into a large 9x13 pan or casserole dish and top with remaining cheese.
• Bake for 30 minutes, or until cheese is bubbly.
• Alternatively, you can prep this dish up to baking. Cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days before baking. Add 20 minutes to baking time if coming from fridge.

MOZECHILLI CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a skillet, cook beef until brown over medium heat. Drain excess fat from meat.
• Add spaghetti sauce and rotini pasta to browned beef. In a three quart casserole dish layer meat mixture, followed with the mozzarella cheese, repeat.
• Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes.

THREE-CHEESE ROTINI BAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray 2-quart casserole with nonstick cooking spray. Cook rotini as directed on package. Drain.
• Meanwhile, melt margarine in large saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic; cook and stir 30 to 60 seconds. Stir in flour and pepper; cook and stir until mixture is bubbly. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly, until mixture boils and thickens. Remove from heat. Reserve 1 tablespoon each American and mozzarella cheese for top. Add remaining cheeses to sauce; stir until melted.
• Add cooked rotini to cheese sauce; stir gently to coat. Pour into sprayed casserole. Sprinkle with reserved cheeses.
• Bake at 350°F. for 20 to 25 minutes or until bubbly around edges.

ROTINI PASTA BAKE

Steps:

• In a large pot cook rotini pasta in boiling salted water until al dente. Drain.
• Cook ground turkey or beef in medium skillet until brown. Add the diced onion, salt and pepper. Mix in half of the jar of spaghetti sauce.
• In a large bowl add the browned beef mixture to the drained pasta and stir in the second half of the of spaghetti sauce. Pour mixture into a 2 quart baking dish. Cover with aluminum foil.
• In a preheated 425 degree F (230 degree C) oven bake for 20 minutes. Remove foil, sprinkle shredded mozzarella cheese and return to oven for 5 to 10 minutes. Serve warm.

BAKED BAKED TRI COLOR ROTINI WITH HOMEMADE MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Start by making the sauce, use an 8 quart stockpot over medium heat and pour in olive oil, add red pepper flakes and whole garlic cloves and simmer until clove soften and start to turn light brown. Add onion and saute for about 5-7 minutes. Add the diced tomatoes stir together and add 1/2 of the seasonings. Bring to a steady simmer and let it reduce for about 20 minutes. Take an immursion blender and blend together all the ingredients into a nice thick sauce. Add the tomato sauce and the other half of the ingredients and stir. Let this simmer for a couple of hours stirring occasionally. Brown the ground beef; work in batches if necessary. Season the meat with plenty of kosher salt, freshly ground black pepper and oregano. Drain and divide meat in half. Cook the pasta in three pound batches in boiling salted water; drain and rinse with cold water. In a very large mixing bowl add half the pasta, sauce and meat and mix together. Divide into two half pans and repeat this step with the other half of pasta, meat and sauce. Lastly cover the pasta generously with shredded mozerella and put under broiler for 5 minutes.