Recipe: Appetizing Stuffed Manicotti with Meat Sauce

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Stuffed Manicotti with Meat Sauce. Spoon ricotta mixture into each manicotti tube and place in casserole dish. Top with meat sauce and sprinkle remaining cheese on top. Cook meat with garlic and onions; Sprinkle with salt and drain grease.

Place stuffed shells in dish to completely fill.

Sprinkle meat over and around shells.

Spoon tomato sauce over shells generously.

You can cook Stuffed Manicotti with Meat Sauce using 17 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Stuffed Manicotti with Meat Sauce

1. It’s of Meat Sauce:.

2. You need 1 lb. of hamburger.

3. It’s 1 of small onion, diced.

4. Prepare 1 jar of spaghetti sauce.

5. Prepare of Seasonings of choice: garlic powder, pepper, Italian seasoning.

6. You need of Manicotti:.

7. You need 10-12 of Manicotti pasta tubes.

8. It’s 2 cups of Ricotta Cheese.

9. Prepare 1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese.

10. You need 1 of egg.

11. Prepare 1 Tbsp. of dried parsley.

12. Prepare 1 tsp. of Italian Seasoning.

13. Prepare 1/2 tsp. of garlic powder.

14. Prepare 1/4 tsp. of black pepper.

15. It’s of Topping:.

16. You need 1 1/2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese.

17. You need 1/4 cup of grated parmesan cheese.

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.

A pleasing blend of ground beef, cottage cheese, mozzarella, Parmesan, egg whites and dried oregano is stuffed into large tubes of cooked manicotti in this satisfying baked dish.

Blanket the stuffed pasta with spaghetti sauce, top with cheese and bake.

Stuffed Manicotti with Meat Sauce step by step

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Cook hamburger along with onion and seasonings of choice until browned; drain and return to pot. Add in spaghetti sauce and set aside..

2. In a large bowl combine ricotta cheese, parmesan cheese, egg and all seasonings until well combined..

3. Place in a gallon size ziplock bag and snip a corner off the bottom to make a piping bag..

4. Grease a 9x13 baking dish and place half of the meat mixture in the bottom, spreading evenly..

5. Pipe the ricotta mixture into the Manicotti tubes one at a time and place on top of meat mixture. You will repeat this process until you are out of ricotta. I usually end up between 10 and 12..

6. Top with remaining meat mixture..

7. Cover with foil and bake for 40 minutes..

8. Remove foil, top with cheeses and return to oven for additional 10 minutes or until hot and bubbly..

9. Enjoy!.

Top with sauce; sprinkle with remaining Romano cheese.

Drain shells and rinse in cold water.

Stir the mozzarella cheese, cream cheese and salt into meat mixture.

Fill each manicotti with the ricotta filling, fill both ends.

Place the filled manicotti's in the casserole dish then ladle the remaining sauce over the manicotti.