Baked Penne with Italian Sausage

🧂 Ingredients

• 16 oz. penne pasta

  cooked al dente
• 24 oz. carton ricotta cheese
• 1 large egg
• 48 oz. jar spaghetti sauce with Italian sausage

  or your favorite prepared spaghetti sauce
• 1/2 cup parmesan cheese

  shredded
• 16 oz. bag mozzarella cheese

  shredded
• 1 tbsp. Italian seasoning
• 2 lbs. Italian sausage

  cooked and drained (I used one 1 lb. sweet Italian sausage, and 1 lb. mild Italian sausage)

Instructions

• 1 Cook sausage until brown; drain.
• 2 While cooking, chop the sausage into very small pieces with a hamburger masher.
• 3 Set aside.
• 4 Cook pasta about 9-10 minutes—only until al dente.
• 5 Drain pasta in colander and rinse with cold water to stop cooking process.
• 6 In a large bowl mix penne pasta, ricotta cheese, egg, mozzarella cheese, cooked
  Italian sausage, Italian seasoning and 1 ½ cups spaghetti sauce.
• 7 Stir to combine.
• 8 Spray a 9x13” baking dish with cooking spray.
• 9 Spread penne mixture over bottom of prepared pan.
• 10 Spread remaining sauce over top.
• 11 Sprinkle parmesan cheese over top.
• 12 Cover and bake at 350° for 45 minutes or until bubbly.

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