Cheese and beef manicotti
Cheese and beef manicotti

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, cheese and beef manicotti. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Make double: Giada's beefy, cheesy manicotti doesn't leave many leftovers. Cook the manicotti in a large pot of boiling salted water until slightly softened, but still very firm to the bite. Transfer the beef and cheese mixture to a piping bag or gallon size ziptop bag.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cheese and beef manicotti using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Cheese and beef manicotti:
  1. Make ready 1 pound lean ground beef
  2. Prepare 1 pound mozzarella cheese, shredded
  3. Make ready 4 cups ricotta cheese
  4. Get entire box of manicotti noodles
  5. Make ready Ragu chunky garden spaghetti sauce (large bottle)
  6. Take onion powder
  7. Take garlic powder
  8. Take 1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese

I usually make homemade crepe-style manicotti for the holidays, but it's pretty time consuming so I save it for special occasions! Filled with ground beef and cheese and topped with a homemade sauce, this is a winning pasta dinner! I am trying to get my fill of comfort food in while the weather is still. Pasta con Broccoli, Toasted Ravioli, this Easy Beef Spinach and Cheese Manicotti… it's just so comforting, warm, cheesy!

Instructions to make Cheese and beef manicotti:
  1. Ground beef (add however much garlic and onion powder during cooking. I used about 1 tsp per or a little over.)
  2. Let meat cool while you boil your box of manicotti noodles. (Add cooking oil while the noodles are boiling, makes stuffing going in easier)
  3. Add entire container of ricotta and 3 cups is mozzarella cheese together in big mixing bowl. Let sit until room temp. Add cooled off beef.
  4. After noodles are done, let them sit, fill with mix from bowl of cheese and beef.
  5. Take your glass pan, line with very little cooking oil. Add small amount of spaghetti sauce to just covet bottom of the pan.
  6. Place filled noodles in glass pan side by side
  7. Cover noodles in sauce, make sure it covers all of the noodles.
  8. Add last cup of mozzarella cheese and sharp cheddar to the top.
  9. Bake on 350 on middle rack for 20 to 30 mins depending on your oven

This is basically lasagna just in a different form but I like this Easy Beef, Spinach, and Cheese Manicotti better. Lasagna seems to slip and slide all over the place so some. Sausage stuffed manicotti are delicious served for dinner with garlic bread. The sausage mixture is a combination if Italian sausage, breadcrumbs, egg, and parmesan, provolone and mozzarella cheeses. To the cheese mixture, add the now cooled beef-onion mixture and incorporate by folding gently.

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