HEARTY MANICOTTI

HEARTY MANICOTTI

Ingredients

1 lb. Italian sweet sausage links

1 lb. ground beef

1 medium onion, chopped

2 16 oz. cans tomato puree

1 6 oz. can tomato paste

1 tsp. sugar

1/2 tsp. pepper

2 tbsp. parsley, chopped

basil

salt

1 8 oz. package manicotti shells

4 cups ricotta cheese

1 8 oz. package mozzarella cheese

Parmesan cheese

How To

In covered 5 quart Dutch oven. Over medium heat, in 1/4 cup

water, cook sausage links 5 minutes. Uncover, brown well, drain

on paper towel.

Spoon fat from Dutch oven. over medium heat brown ground beef

and onions, stir in tomato puree, paste, sugar, pepper, 1 tsp.

basil, 1 tsp. salt, 1 cup water; simmer, covered 45 minutes.

Cut sausage into bite-size pieces; add to mixture and cook 15

minutes, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, cook manicotti as

label directs; drain. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

In a large bowl, combine ricotta and mozzarella (diced) cheeses,

parsley, 3/4 tsp. basil, 1/2 tsp salt; stuff into shells.

Spoon half of meat sauce into 13" x 9" baking dish. Place half

of shells over sauce in one layer. Spoon remaining sauce, except

3/4 cup, over shells, top with remaining shells in one layer.

Spoon reserved meat sauce over top. Sprinkle with parmesan. Bake

30 minutes.

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