Easy Cheesy Penne Pasta Bake combines tender pasta & ground beef with a garlicy red sauce and cheese. Lots of cheese. Forty-five minutes from start to finish make this an ideal weeknight meal.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Cook Time30 minutesmins
Total Time45 minutesmins
Course: Main Dish Pasta
Cuisine: American, Italian
Servings: 10
Calories: 286kcal
Author: Lori @ www.AReinventedMom.com
Ingredients
8oz.Penne pastacooked just under al dente (pasta will finish cooking in oven), drained
24oz.garlic flavored spaghetti sauce
1poundground beef
1/2medium onionchopped
1/2tsp.salt
1/4tsp.black pepper
8oz.mozzarella cheeseshredded
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a 9x13 casserole dish with non-stick spray.
Add ground beef, chopped onion, salt and pepper to a large skillet, and cook until browned. I use a meat chopper when I cook ground beef. Drain grease.
Add spaghetti sauce to drained ground beef and stir to combine. Simmer on low heat for 10 minutes.
Add cooked & drained Penne pasta to ground beef & sauce mixture; stir gently to combine.
Place mixture in greased casserole dish and top with shredded mozzarella cheese.
Bake for 20-30 minutes, until cheese is melted and lightly browned.
Notes
NOTES:
You can substitute ground turkey for the ground beef.
If you don't have garlic flavored spaghetti sauce, add a couple cloves of minced garlic to regular sauce.
Recipe can be doubled or tripled for larger groups.
Turn this into an easy 30-minute meal by using pre-cooked bulk ground beef.
Nutritional information provided as a reference only.