Baked Rigatoni

This is such a simple and easy dish. The most important, it is delicious!

I like that the pasta reheats well the next day, this easy dish is enough for two meals in our house. 

You need:

1 box of Rigatoni Pasta

1 Jar (25 oz) pasta sauce. (I used my absolute favorite: 3 cheese from Trader Joe's)

1 lb of ricotta

1 cup of washed, chopped spinach

1 egg

2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese

1 cup of grated romano cheese

1 cup of grated asiogo cheese

-1 cup of chopped basil

Salt/pepper

olive oil

-Cook Pasta. The box will say to cook for 14 minutes, but since you will be baking the pasta, you need to undercook it a little bit. 

-While the pasta is cooking, grate the cheeses and prep the ricotta:

In a small bowl add the ricotta, egg, chopped spinach, salt and pepper. Mix well

-Once your pasta is cooked, toss with some olive oil

-Take your baking dish and spoon a few TB of the pasta sauce.

-Add half of the pasta

-Cover the pasta with pasta sauce

-Add a few dollops of ricotta over the pasta, add 1 cup of mozzarella, 1/2 cup of romano and 1/2 cup of asiogo.

-Then spread the rest of your pasta over and layer with the rest of your pasta sauce and cheeses.

-Preheat oven to 360F and bake covered for 25 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for another 15 minutes.

Garnish with fresh Basil

Enjoy this cheesy goodness!