Italiansausagenoodlebake Recipes

BAKED PENNE WITH ITALIAN SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 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.
• Heat oil in a large, deep skillet. Place sausage and onion in the skillet and cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain excess fat. Pour in wine, and cook for 1 minute, stirring, to deglaze the pan. Stir in tomato sauce, diced tomatoes and tomato paste. Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Toss with cooked pasta, and place in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Sprinkle top with mozzarella.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until cheese is melted.

SAUSAGE NOODLE CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Cook noodles according to package directions; drain. In a large skillet, cook sausage over medium heat until no longer pink; drain., In a Dutch oven, combine the soup, sour cream and blue cheese; cook and stir over medium heat until cheese is melted. Stir in the noodles, sausage, mushrooms, pimientos and green pepper., Transfer to 2 greased 3-qt. baking dishes. Toss bread crumbs and butter; sprinkle over top. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 30-35 minutes or until edges are bubbly.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven 325 degrees.
• Cut Italian sausage into 2" pieces.
• Bake in oven 30 minutes.
• In the meantime cut onions into 1/4 slices.
• Slice bell peppers into 1/2" slices.
• Saute onions in olive oil just until tender; set aside.
• In same skillet, saute bell pepper slices just until tender.
• Add drained tomatoes, Italian seasoning and pinch sugar to pan; stir to mix.
• Add onions and cooked sausage pieces; mix.
• Cover with foil; bake 45 minutes.
• Uncover and bake additional 10-15 minutes.
• Tip: I use a black iron Dutch oven with lid not only to saute, but for the final baking process also.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE NOODLE BAKE

Steps:

• Brown ground beef and sweet Italian sausage.
• Add garlic, salt, onion and tomato sauce.
• Simmer for 30 minutes.
• While that simmers, mix together cream cheese and sour cream.
• Cook noodles.
• Coat a 9x13 inch cooking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• Layer in pan: 1/3 of sauce, 1/2 noodles, 1/2 cream cheese mixture, 1/2 mozzarella cheese, cover with 1/3 more sauce, remaining noodles, cream cheese, mozzarella cheese and sauce.
• Bake at 350 degrees, uncovered for 30 minutes.
• Remove from oven, cover and let sit 10 minutes.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND PASTA CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Prepare pasta as directed, rinse with cold water, and set aside.
• As pasta is cooking, cook Italian sausage as desired. (I like to pre-cook sausages, as they are easier to cut once they are already cooked.).
• After sausages are cooked, remove from pan and set aside.
• In a large pan, saute onion, peppers, zucchini, and garlic in olive oil until opaque.
• Season with cumin, thyme, basil, rosemary, salt, and pepper.
• Slice sausages into bite-size pieces, then add sausages, tomatoes, and pasta to the vegetables and stir.
• Spray large casserole dish with cooking spray and transfer entire mixture into dish.
• Top with feta cheese.
• Bake, uncovered, at 350 for 15-20 minutes, until cheese starts to melt.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND PENNE BAKE

Steps:

• Saute sausage and garlic in olive oil until browned.
• Add tomato paste, vinegar, tomatoes, and seasonings. Cover & simmer for 15 minutes.
• Combine with pasta in 9x13 pan.
• Top with cheese and bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.

ITALIAN SAUSAGE BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 F and grease 13x9-in baking dish.
• Prepare pasta according to package directions.
• Heat Oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
• Add onion and sauté until slightly transparent.
• Add sausage and cook stirring frequently to break up, cook until no longer pink.
• Add garlic, fennel, Italian seasoning and mushrooms.
• Stir frequently and cook until mushrooms are tender.
• Add sauce, stirring to mix, cook until sauce is heated through. Remove from heat.
• Add to prepared baking dish and sprinkle evenly with mozzarella and parmesan/romano cheese.
• Bake 15 to 17 minutes or until cheese is bubbly.
• Cool approximately 5 Minutes.
• To freeze ahead prepare as above but do not bake.
• Cover and freeze up to 2 months.
• Thaw overnight in refrigerator.
• Preheat oven to 400F and bake 25 to 35 minutes.

MAKE AHEAD ITALIAN SAUSAGE AND PASTA BAKE

Steps:

• Cut sausage into 1/2 inch chunks. I large skillet, brown sausage over medium-high heat, in batches and adding oil if necessary. Transfer sausage to a bowl.
• Pour off any fat from pan. Add onions, garlic and red pepper, cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes or until softened. Stir in pasta sauce, tomato sauce, basil, oregano and fennel seeds; bring to a boil, stirring and scraping up any brown bits from bottom of pan. Return sausage and any accumulated juices to pan; cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until sausage is firm throughout.
• Meanwhile, in a large pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta for 6 minutes, add spinach;cook for 1 minute. Drain well and return to pot. Add sausage mixture and provolone/mozzarella cheese; stir to combine well.
• Transfer to 2 greased 8-inch square baking dishes or 1 13x9-inch dish. Sprinkle with Asiago/parmesan cheese. Cover dish with greased foil, greased side down.
• To serve: Bake, covered with foil, in in 375 degree F. oven for 30 minutes or for 1 hour if from the refrigerator. This freezes beautifully (thaw in refrigerator before baking).