Baked Rigatoni and Meatballs
Baked Rigatoni and Meatballs

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baked rigatoni and meatballs. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Make meatballs: In a large bowl, combine ground beef, garlic, egg, bread crumbs and parsley. Season generously with salt and pepper, then mix with a spatula until just combined. Meatballs: In bowl, beat egg lightly; mix in onion, crumbs, garlic, Parmesan, oregano, salt and pepper.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have baked rigatoni and meatballs using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Rigatoni and Meatballs:
  1. Take 1 box (16 oz.) rigatoni noodles
  2. Prepare 2 cups ricotta cheese
  3. Prepare 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
  4. Prepare Sauce:
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp. olive oil
  6. Make ready 3 cloves garlic, minced
  7. Get 3 cans (8 oz.) each unsalted tomato sauce
  8. Take 1/4 cup heavy cream
  9. Get 1 tsp. each dried basil, dried parsley
  10. Get 1/2 tsp. each salt, granulated sugar, onion powder
  11. Take 1/4 tsp. pepper
  12. Make ready Meatballs:
  13. Make ready 1 lb. ground beef
  14. Prepare 1/2 cup breadcrumbs
  15. Take 1/4 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
  16. Prepare 1 large egg
  17. Take 1 tsp. dried parsley
  18. Make ready 1/2 tsp. each salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, basil
  19. Get 1 tbsp. olive oil

Place the bread on a baking sheet. Heap the rigatoni on a large platter and pile the meatballs and sauce on the top. Sprinkle on some extra minced parsley and serve with extra grated Parmesan. Dry pasta and meatballs get baked with mozzarella and marinara in this genius shortcut recipe.

Steps to make Baked Rigatoni and Meatballs:
  1. First thing to do is get your sauce going. In a large pot, heat the oil over medium heat. Once it's hot, add the garlic. Cook and stir just until it's fragrant… only a minute or two. Then pour in the tomato sauce, cream, sugar and seasonings. Once it starts to simmer, reduce the heat down to low and start preparing the meatballs.
  2. For the meatballs, place the ground beef, breadcrumbs, cheese, egg and seasonings into a large bowl. Use your hands to mix and incorporate everything together. Then roll the meat mixture into mini meatballs. Heat the oil over medium heat in a large skillet. Once it's hot, add the meatballs to the skillet in batches. Cook and roll them around in the skillet every few minutes until they are browned on all sides. Then remove them from the skillet and stir them gently into the sauce.
  3. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x13" baking pan and set it aside. Heat a large pot of salted water over high heat. Once it begins to boil, stir in the rigatoni pasta and cook according to package directions, until al dente. Drain and return to the pot. Then stir the ricotta cheese into the hot pasta. Add the sauce and meatballs to the pot and stir it all together. Then turn it out into the greased pan and sprinkle the mozzarella cheese evenly over the top.
  4. Bake uncovered for 20 minutes, or until heated through and the cheese has a nice golden color. Serve immediately.
  5. If you only wanted to bake a smaller serving at a time, you could turn out the pasta mixture into two greased 8x8"baking pans instead of the larger 9x13". Top one with cheese and cook it immediately. Let the second one cool down completely, then top with the cheese, wrap it up tightly and place it in the freezer. The night before you're planning on baking it, place it in the fridge to thaw out overnight, then bake it for 30-40 minutes or until 165°F throughout. Each 8x8" pan will serve 4 people.

Arrange half of the meatballs and mozzarella over the pasta. When I'm feeling down in the dumps, I go straight to Rigatoni and Meatballs. Pasta is one of the most comforting meals to me, and pasta and meatballs takes. Baked Rigatoni with Mini Meatballs. by Natalie. Crisp, burnt rigatoni edges; melted mozzarella cheese; rich, sweet tomato sauce; and little meatballs all nestled inside this beautiful mess.

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