cheesy penne with mozzarella meatballs
cheesy penne with mozzarella meatballs

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How to Make a Penne Pasta Bake. In a pan, saute onion and garlic until fragrant and stir in reamaining sauce ingredients. Add sauce along with cooked penne to the meatballs (in the same pan… less dishes!) and top with cheese.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cheesy penne with mozzarella meatballs using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make cheesy penne with mozzarella meatballs:
  1. Get meatballs
  2. Take 4 lb ground beef
  3. Make ready 3 oz mozzarella cheese stick 4 sticks
  4. Make ready 2 tbsp granulated garlic powder
  5. Prepare 2 tsp salt
  6. Make ready 2 tsp onion powder
  7. Prepare 1 tsp ground black pepper
  8. Get sauce
  9. Take 1 cup shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese
  10. Prepare 3 can tomato sauce** 15 ounce cans each
  11. Prepare 1 can tomato paste 8 ounce
  12. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp salt
  13. Make ready 1/4 cup sugar
  14. Get 2 tbsp granulated garlic powder
  15. Prepare 1 tsp ground black pepper
  16. Make ready 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
  17. Get 2 tsp onion powder
  18. Take 8 oz water
  19. Prepare 1 small onion sliced thinly
  20. Make ready pasta
  21. Make ready 1 box penne pasta 16 ounces
  22. Get 2 tsp salt
  23. Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
  24. Take 6 cup water

Whether you use homemade meatballs or store-bought, pre-made meatballs, either way, it will turn out delicious. This pasta bake has all the components of a meal the entire family will love. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Drain pasta and pour into a large bowl.

Instructions to make cheesy penne with mozzarella meatballs:
  1. take the meatball ingredients except the cheese, mix well cut the cheese into medallions. You will use a little over half the 4 pounds here.
  2. form beef into little balls, add cheese to the center of balls, cover over the cheese with beef. repeat, pan fry rotating often.
  3. you will have approximately a little under half the beef left over. where you have the juices and oils from meat balls fry onions in it.
  4. with the left over beef brown it. add onions drain meat, add tomato sauce. mix water and paste together. add water and paste mixture to sauce. Then add the rest of sauce ingredients except cheese
  5. add cooked pasta (which you bring salt ,oil, water to boil. Then add pasta cook 12 minutes and drain. Then add to sauce) and cheese. add to pasta and sauce.
  6. simmer 7 minutes stirring often
  7. ** if you use hunts brand tomato sauce adjust the amount of salt to the sauce hunts has a lot of salt in their canned tomato sauce

Add the roasted red pepper paste and passata and bring to the boil. Remove from the heat, stir in the cooked pasta and season. Add the tomato sauce, meatballs and half of the mozzarella and Parmesan to the bowl and stir well to combine. Using your hands, mix until fully combined. Take a golf ball sized piece of the ground beef mixture and place a piece of mozzarella in the middle.

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