Three Cheese Beef Pasta Bake
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Convenient and tasty Three Cheese Beef Pasta Bake is sure to become a family favorite. Layers of hearty pasta, gooey cheese, and tomato meat sauce are baked until golden brown!
Pasta with a tomato sauce is one of my favorite foods. When it comes together as quickly as this one does, well, that’s even better. I used a jarred sauce in this Three Cheese Beef Pasta Bake recipe. Find a good quality sauce and it’ll make your life so much easier!
If you follow me on Instagram, you know I received some Barilla products recently. I could not wait to start cooking with them. Pasta, I can confidently say, is my most favorite food. Seriously, I could give up meat easily. Heck, I could give up my beloved desserts, but I could not give up pasta!
I love this pasta recipe, I’ve been making it for years. I also love the short cut of using a jarred tomato sauce. You can taste the difference of Barilla® Sauce because it’s made with real vegetables. It has all-natural, quality ingredients like vine-ripe tomatoes, extra virgin olive oil, and fragrant herbs.
I like to use fun pasta shapes in my casseroles, but you can use any shape you like or have on hand. Today I used Campanella! In Italian Campanella means little bell, or shaped like a bell or flower. They are like perfect for capturing meaty sauces.
Basically, there are five steps to this recipe
- Boil noodles
- Brown beef
- Mix cheeses
- Layer it
- Bake it
Really it’s that simple!
Another bonus, I make this pasta in the morning, because all heck breaks loose at my house after the boys get home from school! Then all I have to do is pop it in the oven and in 30 minutes we have a hot dinner. I have virtually nothing to clean up after dinner as well!
Three Cheese Layered Beef Pasta Bake
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound pasta any shape will work. This will be about half a box.
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 pound lean ground beef
- 1/2 cup white onion chopped
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 15.5 ounce jar tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon beef boullion paste
- 6 ounce can tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper freshly ground
- 16 ounce ricotta cheese
- 1 cup Parmesan cheese fresh grated
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese shredded
- 2 large eggs beaten
Instructions
- Cook pasta according to package directions to al dente. Toss with oil and spoon into a greased 9x13 inch baking dish.
- Cook ground beef, onion and garlic in a skillet until no longer pink, usually 5 to 6 minutes. Drain and return to skillet.
- Add spaghetti sauce, beef bouillon paste and tomato paste and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 10 minutes. Stir in salt and pepper.
- Combine ricotta, 1/2 cup parmesan, 1/2 cup mozzarella, and eggs. Spoon over pasta.
- Top with beef mixture.
- Sprinkle with remaining parmesan and mozzarella.
- Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees for 30 minutes until hot and bubbly.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
This pasta would be great served with a crisp green salad!
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This would be a hit in my home! Pinned!
Looks great Paula! Being Italian I love pasta any which way! I like how easy this is too!
Kind of like lasagna and that is more than kind of delicious. I see ricotta cheese and my eyes look heavenward in delight.
Yes, I agree this could easily become a family favorite, which would be great for the cook because it’s not that difficult.
Oh my GOSH, this looks SO good, Paula!
Thank you, Becca! I real-ly liked it too and it was so easy!
What’s not to like?! hamburger helper (and that is meant as a good thing) on steroids!
exactly! 🙂
What a great campaign Paula! And this recipe is just comfort food at it’s best!! We enjoy pasta here and I am sure this will become a favorite soon.
Love barilla products, they are always so fresh and flavorful! And I just love the cheesy goodness of this pasta bake!
This looks fantastic – everyone in my house would love this!! Pinned!
Paula, love the idea of having this made in advance!! We totally love anything with pasta, meat and cheese at our house and we could just totally dig in! Thanks for sharing and pinning! Hope you had a happy Easter!
Thanks for visiting and sharing, Cindy. I did have a good Easter, the boys are still out of school today and I love spending time with them. Hope you had great holiday as well!
Love this pasta bake Paula! It looks incredible and so convenient with the jarred tomato sauce. We love using Barilla pasta and I can’t wait to try this dish out – my family would love it – pinning 🙂
THanks so much Kelly! Have a wonderful week!