Easy Pasta Baked Casserole Recipe
Pasta baked casserole is one of my favourite recipe and i love it more when i baked it with cheese, this recipe is perfect and delicious and also it is easy quick with no real eforce to do. I made my pasta this time with the delicious sauce bolognese follow my steps to get the best pasta baked.
In this recipe use any type of pasta such as the shell pasta or macaroni,
i use the normal penne pasta, and in my opinion it is the best type to make baked pasta with.
How much it takes to make pasta baked Casserole?
The preparing time took me 10 minutes but the cooking time takes 30 minutes, and the perfect time to cook the sauce bolognese is 45 minutes.
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Ingredients
For Sauce bolognese:
- 300 grams ground beef
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 Small carrot, diced
- 1 medium onion, diced
- 1/2 cup red bell pepper, diced
- 1 cup pasta Tomato sauce
- 1 Cup hot water
- 1 tablespoon oregano
- Two sticks rosemary
- 3 leaves chopped basil
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon black Pepper
- Salt, to taste
For pasta:
- 500 grams of pasta penne
- Salt, to taste for pasta water
- 1 and 1/2 Litre boiled water
For topping:
- 100 grams of Mozzarella cheese
- 3 tablespoons of Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- On a medium heat place a large skillet, add about 3 tablespoon of vegetables oil, carrots, onions, bell pepper.
- Stir the vegetables until softened.
- Add ground beef stir until turned to brown colour, add tomato paste and water or (melt 3 tablespoon tomato paste in 1 cup water before adding).
- Add rosemary sticks and Season with paprika, oregano, garlic powder and black pepper.
- Cook for about 30 minutes until thicken. Add salt and cook for more 5 minutes, remove rosemary sticks and remove from heat.
- In a boiling water add salt and pasta, cook for 7 minutes or read the cooking instructions on the pasta bag some pasta takes only 3 minutes to prepare and other more than 7 minutes.
- Drain pasta from extra water
- Add sauce to pasta and mix to combine.
- Place pasta in an oven ceramic dish
- Sprinkle the cheese mix on the top of the pasta
- Bake at 200°C/ 400F for 10 minutes or until golden crunchy cheese.
- Enjoy!