My Sweet Manicotti In Meat Sauce Recipes

MY SWEET MANICOTTI IN MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Sauce: Brown the meat in a skillet with your italian seasonings and garlic salt, drain when done to get fat off.
• Heat sausage up so that you can cut it into little peices, it will cook the rest of the way when in the oven.
• Combine your pasta sauce, meat, and sausage and mix together over low heat.
• While making your filling start boiling your manicotti noodles. Follow directions on box to go about boiling the noodles.
• Filling: Mix ricotta, 1 and 1/2 cups mozarella (the rest will go on top), some of the parmesean (save enough to sprnkle on top), sugar, and chopped parsley in a large mixing bowl. Add in some dried basil. (about 3 shakes).
• Take a gallon size ziplock baggy and put the filling inside. Cut a hole in bottom corner so you can squeeze filling out.
• Layer some of your pasta sauce across the bottom of the pan so the noodles do not stick to pan and because theres no such thing as too much sauce!
• Take your noodles and your ziplock and fill noodles full of filling. When all noodles are filled and aligned in your casserole pan pour remaining sauce on top of manicotti.
• Sprinkle with your leftover mozzarella and parmesean.
• Cover with foil and bake in oven at 350 for 30 minutes, then take foil off and bake an addition 10 minutes.
• Take your manicotti noodles and fill the.

BAKED MANICOTTI WITH MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Make filling by mixing first 8ingredients and 1 cup parmesan cheese.
• Blend thoroughly.
• Cook meat with garlic and onions
• Sprinkle with salt and drain grease.
• Stuff cooked noodles (gently) with filling.
• Butter 12x15 baking dish.
• Spoon tomato sauce in bottom of dish to cover.
• Place stuffed shells in dish to completely fill.
• Sprinkle meat over and around shells.
• Spoon tomato sauce over shells generously.
• Sprinke with 1/2 cup parmesan.
• Cover with foil.
• Bake at 350°F for 45 minutes.

CHEESE STUFFED MANICOTTI IN MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Preaheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Bring 4 quarts of water to a boil; add salt if desired. Place noodles in water and boil for 9 minutes. Drain and rinse in cold water to prevent sticking.
• While noodles are boiling, brown meat in a large skillet. Drain and add spaghetti sauce; set simmer for 5 minutes, then turn off heat.
• In a bowl, combine eggs, 1 cup mozzarella, half of the ricotta, parmesan and seasonings.
• Pour a layer of meat sauce in the bottom of a baking dish, using half of what you have.
• Using a spoon or piping bag, fill the noodles with the cheese mixture and place on top of sauce. Spread remaining ricotta on top and layer with remaining sauce and mozzarella. Bake, covered, for 40 minutes.

BAKED MANICOTTI WITH PEPPERONI MEAT SAUCE

Steps:

• Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven to 375 degrees.
• MEAT Pulse the pepperoni in a food processor until ground. Add (the already ground) beef and pulse until thoroughly combined. (This will blend the flavors better and also prep the beef so it's more tender rather than 'stringy out of the package when cooked).
• Transfer beef mixture to large saucepan. Add the onion, garlic, and spices and cook over medium heat, breaking up mixture with wooden spoon, until beef is no longer pink, about 5 minutes.
• Using slotted spoon, transfer 1 cup beef mixture to paper towel-lined plate and reserve.
• SAUCE: Add spaghetti sauce to the meat in the saucepan and simmer until heated through (about 10 minutes). Season with salt and pepper to taste. Begin making noodles and filling while sauce is simmering.
• NOODLES Pour 2 quarts very hot tap water into 13x9 inch baking dish. Place noodles into the water ONE AT A TIME (so as not to stick to each other). Soak noodles until pliable, about 8-10 minutes.
• FILLING In a large bowl, combine all filling ingredients and the reserved meat. Mix well.
• ASSEMBLY Drain noodles on place them in a single layer onto kitchen or paper towels. Pour off water and dry baking dish. Spread half of meat sauce over bottom of baking dish.
• With the short side of the noodles facing you, spread 1/4 cup of the filling filling across the bottom of each and roll into a tube. Arrange the rolled manicotti, seam-side down, over the sauce in the baking dish. Spread remaining sauce over top. Cover with foil and bake until bubbling around edges, about 40 minutes.
• Remove foil and sprinkle with the grated parmesan cheese. Bake uncovered 5 more minutes. ***IMPORTANT*** Let cool 15 minutes.before serving so the cheese 'sets' and is not gooey.