No-Boil Chicken Penne
No-Boil pasta casseroles are one of my favorite weeknight meals! It only takes a minute to assemble and the oven does all the work! This No-Boil Chicken Penne is one of our new favorites! Chicken, pasta sauce, ricotta, basil, mozzarella and parmesan cheese. What’s not to like?!?!?!
I used half of a rotisserie chicken in this recipe. I always have some rotisserie chicken in the freezer for casseroles. I used a jar of Trader Joe’s Roasted Garlic Marinara sauce. It is my absolute favorite jarred pasta sauce. I use it in all my pasta casseroles!
This makes a lot. We ate it for dinner and lunch the next day. It was equally delicious reheated. Serve with with some crusty garlic bread and a salad for an easy weeknight meal!
No-Boil Chicken Penne
ingredients:
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1 (26-oz) jar pasta sauce
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1-½ cups water
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1 (15-oz) container ricotta cheese
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2 cups shredded mozzarella, divided
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¼ cup parmesan cheese
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3 cups cooked chicken, chopped
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8-oz uncooked penne pasta
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2 Tbsp chopped fresh basil
instructions:
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Preheat oven to 400ºF. Lightly grease 9×13 pan; set aside.
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Combine sauce, water, ricotta 1 cup of mozzarella, cooked chicken, parmesan and penne. Pour into 9×13 pan and cover with foil.
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Bake for 55 minutes.
- Remove foil and top with remaining mozzarella cheese. Bake for 5 to 10 minutes, until bubbly. Remove from oven and sprinkle with chopped basil.
Thanks bunches! Instead of doubling, I may make 2 versions – chicken & venison.
Sounds great! Do you regular pasta or the no boil kind? I take lunch next week to ladies who are in job training classes. This with a big salad would be perfect. There are 10 ladies so do you think this would be enough or should I double it?
Thanks bunches,
Cindy
I did use regular pasta in this. If you double it, it will definitely feed 10. Enjoy!
One more quick question, I have a ton of venison hamburger meat and maybe even some venison italian sausage. Have you ever tried this with anything other than chicken. I'm am imagining a lot of possibilities!
Here is the sausage/hamburger version : https://www.plainchicken.com/2010/10/no-boil-baked.html
No Boil? Sign me up! This looks like the perfect weeknight dinner!