Simple To Prepare Pasta Recipe With A Worked On All Day Taste

Having pasta for dinner has always been one of those quick throw together meals but, spaghetti as good as it is can get a little boring. This pasta recipe is just as quick to prepare, but will give your family variety with an excellent taste. The majority of ingredients are ones that most kitchens have already been stocked with. There are many ways to vary this recipe so play around with it and have making a great dish.

The ingredients needed are one regular size jar of spaghetti sauce, either the three cheeses or spinach and cheese flavored. A box of penne pasta, one medium onion, one green pepper, large two cup size bag of shredded Italian cheese, Italian seasoned sausage, and Italian seasoning. An oven proof baking dish or an aluminum disposable pan.

Pre heat oven to 375 degrees. Wash and dice the green pepper, then peel onion, rinse in cold water before dicing. In a skillet put sausage, pepper, onion and half teaspoon Italian seasoning. Brown until sausage is done, pepper is tender and onion is translucent. Meanwhile cook the penne according to the directions on the box.

When pasta is done, drain the water from pan and add the sausage mixture to pasta. Pour in the spaghetti sauce and lightly stir, avoid stirring to much it is only to blend the ingredients.

In the baking dish, put a layer of the pasta and meat mix over the bottom of dish, this should be about 1/2 thick. Next add cheese over the meat layer. The remaining layers of should be thicker than the bottom layer. Continue to layer meat and cheese until the ingredients are used. End with a somewhat thick layer of cheese on top.

Bake in a pre-heated oven until cheese melts or has a light brown color. The ingredients have been precooked so this part will go quick as it is just has to melt the cheese. When done, remove from oven and let sit for a couple of minutes before serving.

This pasta recipe will generously feed four to six people and still have enough left for the next days lunch. To complete the meal warm a loaf of Italian bread in the oven and serve with a salad. Use various styles of sauce or different pastas to make the same dish with many different tastes.

We do not know about you, but we love to cook. We have a really good pasta recipe that you must try! We also found a turkey recipe on the Internet that goes perfect with the pasta one.