Easy Baked Rigatoni Recipe

This Baked Rigatoni recipe is a hearty, comforting meal perfect for a crowd. Rigatoni pasta tossed in a delicious meat sauce and cheese before baked until bubbly and golden brown. This baked pasta is also wonderful for preparing ahead of time, so you have an easy, stress-free week. It keeps really well in the fridge, freezes wonderfully, and reheats beautifully.

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Hey I’m John canel and today on preppy kitchen we’re making an easy delicious baked rigatoni so let’s get started first off set your up to 350 grab a large pot and fill it with water place it over medium high heat and we’re going to add about a tablespoon or

So of salt it’s really up to you but you need to Salt your water it’s very important your pasta will be so Bland otherwise in fact okay while that comes to a boil it’s time for a bit of prep work grab an onion and we’re going to give it a

Really quick chop don’t be too precious about it just get nice even pieces you’ll want four or so cloves of garlic remove the skin and give them a mince or remove the skin and grab your garlic press a tool which I love using in the kitchen such a timesaver the last

Bit of prep workk is to chop 2 tablespoons of fresh basil grab a large Skillet and we’re going to place it over medium high and get to work and we’re going to add about a tablespoon of olive oil and get it nice and hot baked ratoni

Is such an easy week night meal and the nice thing is if you if you had some time on Saturday or Tuesday you can assemble everything pop it into the fridge and then leave it overnight and bake the next day so easy and it’s really satisfying and Hearty and just

Full of flavor it’s hitting all the notes my olive oil is shimmering so I know it’s nice and hot now it’s time to add our chopped onion in oh very hot along with my garlic cloves I’m pressing them right in and just stir stir stir so nothing Burns and we’re going to soften

Everything up before we add the meats in I’m still stirring but my water’s come to a boil so it’s time to add our 16 oz of rigatoni right in cook your onions and garlic for about 5 minutes or until it’s nice and tender but you do not want it to burn so you

Know you don’t walk away just keep stirring you know I cleaned my stove them like minutes before making this video cuz it looked like a disaster and it’s already looking horrible h it’s not fair my onions and garlic are looking nice and soft so it’s time to add a pound of ground

Beef make some room for it and a pound of ground sausage this is a nice spicy hot one but you can use your favorite so today I’m using ground beef and a pork sausage but you could use any of your favorite Meats go for 2 lbs one that’s full of flavor and one

That’s ground so you could use ground turkey or ground chicken but if you’re using either of those go for the highest fat possible so ground dark meat not like the super lean kind cuz that’ll get really rubbery if you really want a punch of flavor you could add

Some petta as well my pasta is like begging to boil over placing a wood on wooden spoon on top so that’ll help things out my meat’s all brown so now we’re going to add 24 o or one jar of your favorite marinara sauce right in there along with a tablespoon and a half

Of Italian seasoning And the basil we chopped earlier as well now stir this all together so it’s nice and combined we’re going to simmer this for 5 minutes then go on to the next step once your sauce is complete before it simmers give it a taste and now you can decide if it needs

A little bit of salt or a little bit of pepper it’s totally up to you and it depends on the type of sausage and your marinara so go ahead and just give it a taste and add accordingly my mixture just needs a little bit of pepper and should be

Great this dish is such an easy way to get these big bold flavors it’s really comforting and this is a variation of a dish my mom used to make on the regular when I was growing up and you don’t have to use rigatoni you could use any pasta

That you like we even used orzo sometimes I hope that doesn’t offend anybody but it’s so delicious and like you could just kind of memorize the recipe once you make it and make it again and again and again and with variations as you please I’ve been

Working away here but I think my pasta is just about done it looks nice and alente you don’t want to overcook it it should have a nice bite to it because it’ll continue baking in the oven and absorbing all that sauce if your pasta’s overcooked it’s totally saturated with

Water it’s going to get mushy and it won’t absorb the flavor as nicely my rigoton is perfectly Al Dente let’s drain it up always blow the Steam Away steam burns are horrible and now we’re going to carefully add in the sauce and we’re going to stir to

Combine there we go my pasta is perfectly alente so it’s not going to fall apart but sometimes mistakes happen I’m just putting it out there all right that’s all combined set it aside and grab oh like why is there paper in my hand I forgot to grade the

Parmesan so do that or take the pre grated Parmesan from your fridge you want a cup of grated parm which is about 85 G but you could add more it’s up to you all right beautiful now we can assemble so grab your 9x 13in dish if you’re worried about sticking

You can butter it grease it or spray it with baking spray I think it’s going to be just fine the assembly is super easy go ahead and add half of the pasta mixture right into your dish if you want to sneak some veggies into this by the way after after

The onion went in you could add carrots bell peppers mushrooms and then some spinach could go in at the very end to get wilted all of those will be great really depends on what you want and if you have it in your fridge all right nudge this into an even

Layer I have three cups of shredded mozzarella I’m going to add half of that right now and half of your parm which is about half a cup or more it’s cheesy delicious and amazing now add the rest of your pasta smooth it out into an even layer and top with your remaining

Cheeses and last of my cheese my casserole dish will go onto a baking sheet to catch any potential drips and this will bake for 40 minutes until the top is golden brown and the sauce is bubbly in you go one side of the oven allow to cool

For about 15 minutes then garnish with basil and you’re ready to enjoy hearty cheesy and packed full of flavor I hope you get a chance to make this easy recipe and if you like this video check out my pasta playlist