Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole – seriously delicious! Meat sauce, frozen ravioli, and 4 cheeses! The BEST pasta casserole EVER!!! Can make ahead and refrigerate or freeze for later. Frozen cheese ravioli, cream cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese, Italian sausage, spaghetti sauce, parmesan cheese, and mozzarella cheese. Serve with a simple salad and garlic bread. Great for dinner parties and potlucks! Everyone loves this easy casserole! I never have any leftovers!!
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Pin This RecipeThis Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole is a new favorite in our house! Meat sauce, ravioli, and tons of cheese. YUM! We ate this for lunch and dinner the same day. We just couldn’t get enough of it!!! You can make this pasta casserole ahead of time and refrigerate or freeze for later. I like to make this and split it between two pans. Bake one now and freeze one for later.
As I said, we LOVED this Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole! It is loaded with tons of amazing flavor. We served this with a salad and some garlic bread. If you need a good garlic bread recipe, check out our version of Carbone’s Garlic Bread. I love it!!
What is a good store-bought spaghetti sauce?
I used a jar of Trader Joe’s Roasted Garlic Marinara (green label) in this casserole. I also like Rao’s or La Famiglia DelGrosso jarred sauces. All three of these jarred sauces taste great! I used Italian sausage for the meat sauce.
If you don’t like sausage, you can swap it out for ground beef or ground turkey. You might want to add a teaspoon of Italian seasoning to the beef or turkey to give it more flavor. Totally up to you.
One last thing about the ingredients, I used a bag of frozen cheese ravioli. There is no need to thaw the ravioli first. It will cook in the casserole.
One more thing, this casserole uses cottage cheese. I already know the emails and comments that are coming from all you cottage cheese haters! Here is my take on cottage cheese: I like cottage cheese in pasta casseroles. I NEVER ever eat it straight out of the container – yuck! BUT it is heavenly in casseroles. If you haven’t tried it, I really encourage you to branch out and try it. If you aren’t ready to trust the word of a tried and true picky eater, you can try and substitute ricotta for the cottage cheese.
Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole
Equipment:
Ingredients:
- 1 lb Italian sausage
- 1 (28-oz) jar spaghetti sauce
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 (8-oz) package cream cheese softened
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 2 Tbsp parsley
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ⅓ cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 (25-oz) package frozen cheese ravioli
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Spray a 9x13x2-inch pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large skillet brown Italian sausage. Drain fat from skillet. Stir in spaghetti sauce and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine cottage cheese, softened cream cheese, sour cream, parmesan cheese, parsley and garlic powder. Add ravioli. Toss to coast.
- Spread ravioli in the bottom of the prepared baking pan.
- Pour meat sauce over ravioli and top with mozzarella cheese.
- Bake uncovered for 45 minutes. Allow to cool for 10-15 minutes before serving.
Notes:
Steph
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I gave this one a try last night and we loved it. I was skeptical about the cottage cheese because no one in my family likes it but I decided to trust all the reviews I read and I was glad I did. I did add onion to my meat sauce and a tsp of minced garlic and a little red pepper flakes. It was awesome. Thanks for the recipe and the spot on reviews.
You said in this recipe to use a 25 ounce bag of raviolis that’s a lot of raviolis my bag is only 12 ounces
Then you will need 2 bags or you can half the recipe and use the 12-oz bag
Wow!!! This recipe is amazing!!!! Thank you for sharing.
Amazing dish! Made it tonight and my family loves it. Wouldn’t change a thing.
This is hands down one of the most amazing dishes I’ve ever made! Thank you!!
I made this perfect dish for dinner.last night. I followed the directions exactly. We’ll not exactly, I always add pesto and a little nutmeg to all my pasta dishes! Came out delish!!!
I agree with the cottage cheese comment from the author. I hate cottage cheese, but in lasagna and other pasta dishes, it’s awesome. If it’s a texture thing do what I do and put it in the blender. My kids have no idea I use cottage cheese. If they did, they wouldn’t even try it. This recipe is amazing!!
Great tip with the blender!
I too run cottage cheese through the blender have for over 50 years. I used ricotta once in lasange and all my cottage cheeses hater were like mom this is awful what happened? End of that experiment!
I prepared this last night and can’t wait to cook it tonight! Since it has sat in fridge overnight, should I increase or decrease the cook time at all?
It will probably take a little longer to cook if you are baking it straight from the refrigerator.
My raviolis we’re in the fridge section, not the freezer. How long do I cook it now?
same amount of time listed
This was absolutely delicious!! Quick question if making it the day and then baking, would you need to bake it for the full 45 minutes since the ravioli would have defrosted?
Bake it however long you would like.
Did it cook in less time because the refrigeration time since the ravioli would be alittle thawed out?
Can I precook the pasta to save oven time? I hate heating my house with the oven any longer than necessary. Thanks!!
I don’t think that will save any time. The casserole still has to cook at about the same time to heat everything up. But it is your house, you can make this however you want.
I can’t find cream cheese anywhere right now. Can I substitute ricotta cheese for the cream cheese?
Absolutely fabulous! My brother-in-law hates cottage cheese with a passion and never had a clue it was in this dish. He even took leftovers to work the next day! Everyone loves it and it’s staying in our regular rotation for sure. Thanks Stephanie for a truly million dollar recipe!
SO glad it was a hit!
The recipe doesn’t say whether to cook the ravioli before or add to pan frozen.
It does if you actually read the post
Add them in frozen
would love for these recipes to be more printer friendly. This is the only site I have seen that doesn’t have a print button, that said…I love this recipe!!! have lost it a few times and am back to cut and paste it into word so I always have it.
There is a print recipe button on EVERY SINGLE RECIPE!!! EVERY SINGLE ONE!
Print button is on green bar, just above recipe image
To truly make it “million dollar”, I would sprinkle those crispy french fried onion bits to the last 15 min of bake time! Can’t wait!
Sounds amazing!
Can you use fresh refrigerated ravioli? If so, should it be precooked. Thank you!
Loved this! Was very easy to make and delicious! There was plenty for another meal later in the week. I forgot to soften the cream cheese so I used my microwave soften setting and was able to mix it up without any problems.
I doubled the sauce and sausage, added sautéed onions to sauce and it was absolutely delish! This will definitely be added to our rotation.
Cheaper and a lot quicker to make than standard lasagna which is an added bonus for sure!!
is the parsley fresh or dried?
dried
I highly recommend trying this!! I only used 2 8oz jars of spaghetti sauce though. I added mushrooms as well. I accidentally bought refrigerated ravioli so I boiled them for 3 minutes then mixed them with the cream cheese mixture. Turned out perfect 🥰