Penne Pasta bake + home made rolls
2010
I was going to add ricotta cheese to this dish, but the container I got was moldy on the inside!!
So, on to plan B. I’ll just make my sauce, and layer that with some mozzarella cheese and bake it, so that’s what I did.
I started out with Italian chicken sausage that I bought from Super Target. Each link is only 90 calories, and I used 3 for my sauce. They don’t come in the casing, so I just chopped them up.
Here it is chopped up in my skillet:
Next, I added 2 28 oz. cans of crushed tomatoes, garlic, Italian seasoning, salt and pepper and that’s about it!
So in a big casserole dish, I just added a layer of the penne pasta, some mozzarella cheese, some sauce and then another layer, followed by cheese, the rest of the sauce and then a little more cheese on top!
Here’s how it looked before going into the oven:
And…..after!
Meanwhile, I made dinner rolls from a recipe Heidi from 101 Cookbooks posted. The only difference is I made it with wheat bran instead of oat bran, and ground flax meal instead of regular flax seed. One tip is after it is baked, slice it in half, and toast it like an English muffin and add some butter. These were very dense and delicious!!
Here’s the recipe on Heidi’s page for the rolls.
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I’ll eat any pasta dish…especially one like this with cheese!
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That pasta dish looks delicious. I love pasta!
that penne looks amazing! I love pasta bakes!
This dish looks amazing.
I used to make a penne pasta bake a lot when my kids were living at home…yours looks so good! Now I want some.
What a wonderful dinner you put together, everything looks fabulous!
*kisses* HH