Tortellini Pasta Bake
Tortellini, pasta sauce, and cheese baked to perfection. My husband says, "If you think this LOOKS good, wait until you taste it." This pasta bake is one of my go to dishes to make when company is coming over for dinner or to do a porch drop off with a friend who just had a baby, surgery, household illness, etc.
Ingredients
- 20 oz tortellini
- 1 lb ground beef
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 (24 oz) jar pasta sauce
- A few dashes salt
- A few dashes pepper
- A few dashes Italian seasoning
- A few dashes garlic powder
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cook tortellini according to package directions.
- While the tortellini is cooking, brown your ground beef. Drain grease.
- Add cream cheese and pasta sauce to cooked beef and continue cooking on low, stirring every few minutes, until the cream cheese is melted.
- Season meat sauce with a few dashes of salt, black pepper, Italian seasoning, and garlic powder. Adjust to your taste!
- Combine meat sauce with cooked and drained tortellini.
- Pour mixture into a 9x13 baking dish.
- Top with shredded mozzarella and parmesan cheese (as much or as little as you want).
- Bake in the oven at 350 for 20 minutes. Then, broil on high a few minutes to get that cheese to gooey perfection. Enjoy!
Notes
- I use refrigerated Buitoni brand of tortellini which can be found in the dairy section of the grocery store. My go to flavor is "Three Cheese Tortellini" but I actually used "Spinach & Ricotta" this particular time. Any flavor will work so just pick your favorite!
- You could absolutely use Italian sausage instead of ground beef. If you use Italian sausage, get it fresh from the meat counter at your grocery store rather than in a tube. Trust me.
- Buy a block of mozzarella and parmesan cheese and shred it yourself instead of buying pre-shredded if you can.
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