Beef / Pork

Italian Rotini Bake is for Dinner.

Italian Rotini Bake takes 45 minutes to prepare.

Italian Rotini Bake takes 45 minutes to cook.

Italian Rotini Bake makes 12 servings.

The ingredients for Italian Rotini Bake are:

4 cloves garlic, diced
half onion, diced
1 tbsp olive oil
8 Roma Tomatoes, chopped
1 can Hunts No Salt Added Tomato Paste
2 cans Hunts No Salt Added Tomato Sauce
2 cans DelMonte No Salt Added Diced Tomato
1 lb. extra lean ground beef
1 pckg. Birdseye frozen Spinach
1 box Barilla 13.25 oz. Whole Grain Rotini
1 15oz. pckg. Part Skim Ricotta
3 cups Kraft 2% Mozzarella

Here is how you make Italian Rotini Bake:

Dice garlic and onion, saute over med. heat in tbsp Olive Oil while dicing tomatoes. Add fresh tomatoes and simmer, stirring frequently. Add spices to taste here, allow for flavors to build. Simmer while - Browning ground beef and drain.. Drain Frozen Spinach. Then Add canned paste, sauce and tomatoes to simmering sauce. Combine and simmer. Boil water for pasta. Add spinach and ground beef to sauce, continue to simmer while cooking and draining pasta, make sure to only cook the pasta to just al dente. Add Ricotta cheese to drained pasta, stir. Add diced zucchini and squash to sauce and stir lightly. Lightly cover 13x9 pan with 1/3 sauce mixture. Layer with pasta mixture, layer with rest of sauce mixture. Add mozzarella cheese. Then bake for 45 min. at 350 degrees. This makes 12 large servings or 16 smaller ones. Number of Servings: 12Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JENNADEF810.

The nutritional information for Italian Rotini Bake is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 12
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 406.3

• Total Fat: 16.7 g
• Cholesterol: 52.1 mg
• Sodium: 318.9 mg
• Total Carbs: 40.7 g
• Dietary Fiber: 8.3 g
• Protein: 25.3 g

Italian Rotini Bake is Italian cuisine.

The dietary needs meet for Italian Rotini Bake is Low Fat