Baked Anelletti
Baked Anelletti, a true Sicilian pasta with ragu sauce, 2 cheeses, and anelletti pasta all baked together for a delicious pasta forno.
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups anelletti pasta
- 1 lb ground beef
- ½ cup frozen peas
- 2 ½ cups tomato sauce
- 1 ½ cups Parmesan Romano – grated and divided
- 1 ½ cups mozzarella cheese - grated
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 3 garlic cloves – minced
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- ½ small onion - chopped
- ½ small zucchini – chopped
- 1 to 2 TBS bread crumbs
- 1 TBS butter
- 2 TBS olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Saute the onion, garlic, and zucchini in the olive oil until translucent
- Add the ground beef and cook until browned throughout
- Add the tomato sauce and spices, simmer while pasta is cooking
- Add the frozen peas in the last few minutes of simmering
- Boil water and cook the anelletti pasta according to package directions but only until half cooked, just shy of al dente
- Drain the anelletti pasta
- Mix the pasta in with the ragu sauce
- Add the grated mozzarella cheese and 1 cup of the Parmesan Romano
- Grease the 9x13 pan with a little butter
- Pour in the pasta with the ragu sauce
- Sprinkle on the bread crumbs and the rest of the Parmesan Romano cheese
- Bake in the oven for 40 minutes
- Let sit in pan 10 minutes before serving