Baked sausage pasta
Cheesy baked pasta with tomato and sausage sauce
Ingredients
- 500 g Rigatoni/penne Any short, tube-shaped pasta will work
- 1 Onion chopped
- 500 g Pork sausages Remove the skins
- 700 g Tomato passata
- 375 g Mozzarella cheese
- 375 g Ricotta
- 100 g Parmesan cheese grated
- Basil
- Salt
- Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)
Instructions
Prepare ingredients
- Preheat your oven to 180°C.
- Cook the pasta in boiling salted water as per the packet instructions but remove the pasta from the water about 1 or 2 minutes before it is fully cooked.
- While the pasta is cooking, heat 2 tbsp of EVOO in a deep pan.
- Add your onion and cook until softened.
- Add the sausage meat to the pan and break it apart with a wooden spon. Cook for about 5 minutes over medium-high meat.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low and add the tomato passata. Season with salt and a few basil leaves. Cook for about 15-20 min.
- While you are waiting for everything to cook, chop your mozzarella into small cubes.
Assemble baked pasta and cook
- In a baking dish, add half your sauce and half your pasta and mix well.
- Top with a layer of half of each cheese.
- Combine the rest of your pasta and sauce and add this on top of your cheese layer.
- Top with the remaining cheese.
- Bake it in the oven for 25 minutes or until the top is brown and crispy.