Wow your family and friends with this delicious and easy stacked pasta pie! Cheesy stacked pasta enrobed with a hearty meat sauce covered in more melty cheese. Serve like a slice of pie!
I’m picky when it comes to what kind of sauce I serve with pasta. Having grown up in an Italian family, my grandmother made her famous red sauce, always simmering on the back of the stove. I looked forward to getting a chance to dipping a piece of bread in the sauce to see if it was thick enough to serve for dinner. I have been making her sauce for years.
RAGÚ® Homestyle Thick and Hearty Meat Sauce is so flavorful and perfect just the way it is. Grandma would approve. It is a very thick sauce– you can tell by the way it hugs the pasta.
You can taste the bold flavors in this sauce because Ragu peels, chops and simmers the ingredients and uses a special blend of herbs (basil, fennel, oregano and black pepper) to layer and build the flavor.
Ragu doesn’t use artificial flavors, artificial colors or high fructose corn syrup.
I don’t take short cuts when I make my Grandma’s sauce and neither does Ragu. They take the time to make sure the sauce is made right.
Only 6 ingredients for this easy and delicious recipe: Ragu Homestyle Thick and Hearty Meat Sauce, Rigatoni, Olive Oil, Parmesan Cheese, Mozzarella Cheese. ( butter, not pictured)
Cook the rigatoni until it is al dente ( firm to the bite). Try this trick, place a wooden spoon on the pot so the water doesn’t boil over.
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Stacked Pasta Pie and a Giveaway!
Cheesy stacked pasta enrobed with a hearty meat sauce covered in more melty cheese. Serve like a slice of pie!
Ingredients
- 1 jar Ragu Homestyle Thick & Hearty Meat Sauce
- 1 Pound Rigatoni, cooked al dente
- 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 8 ounces grated Mozzarella Cheese
- butter, for greasing pan
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Cover baking sheet with foil.
- Cover bottom of
9 inch springform pan with foil. - Grease springform pan with butter. Set aside.
- Drizzle olive oil over pasta in a bowl.
- Mix with a spoon until pasta is coated.
- Sprinkle parmesan cheese over pasta.
- Mix with
spoon until coated. - Stack pasta in
springform pan. - Pour entire jar of Ragu Homestyle Thick & Hearty Meat Sauce over pasta. Use spatula to get in nooks and crannies. Use a chopstick if needed.
- Bake in
oven for 15 minutes. - Remove from oven sprinkle mozzarella cheese over pasta.
- Return to oven for another 10 minutes, or until bubbly and brown.
- Remove from oven , let set for 5 minutes. Slice in a pie shape. Serve! YUM!
Recipe adapted from Noble Pig
Contest starts 6/7/2016 ~ Ends 6/30/2016
1 winner only, valid in the USA. PRIZE: a set of wooden spoons.
Contest is over~ winner is Patricia C.
Elizabeth
Thursday 14th of July 2016
I grew up with pasta and Ragu sauce. It's got a special place in my heart, it does, and I LOVE what you've done with it! Bookmarked to try later!
nettiemoore11
Thursday 14th of July 2016
Thank you Elizabeth, hope you get a chance to make this yummy pasta pie! Nettie
Debi at Life Currents
Sunday 10th of July 2016
This looks great! So fun! And you make it look easy! Yummers! Thanks for the links to Ragu as well!
Patricia Wojnar Crowley
Thursday 30th of June 2016
I like the recipe for SPAGHETTI PUTTANESCA!
Maggie
Thursday 30th of June 2016
The stacked pasta pie is ingenious. The dilemma...invite people to join in or save it just for us. Thank you Nettie
nettiemoore11
Thursday 30th of June 2016
Thank you Maggie, that is a dilemma! XXOO Nettie
Peter Block
Wednesday 29th of June 2016
I cannot believe you made this with only 6 ingredients. I also know it is time consuming to put the noodles around the baking dish. I really like all the cheese on top.
nettiemoore11
Thursday 30th of June 2016
Thank you Peter, just a bit of work for a grand finale! Nettie