No-Boil Manicotti - cheese stuffed manicotti noodles baked in a quick meat sauce. No need to precook the pasta! It cooks with everything else! Manicotti, Italian sausage, spaghetti sauce, water, cottage cheese, parsley, mozzarella, parmesan, and egg. This is SO good and SOOO easy! Everyone gobbled it up! Serve with a salad and crusty garlic bread for an easy weeknight meal. #pasta #casserole #sausage #familydinner #potluck
Preheat oven to 350ºF. Lightly spray a 9x13-inch pan with cooking spray.
In a skillet over medium-high heat, cook the Italian sausage until no longer pink. Drain fat. Stir in spaghetti sauce and water. Remove from heat.
Combine cottage cheese, 1 cup mozzarella cheese, parmesan cheese, parsley, and egg. Fill uncooked manicotti noodles with the cheese mixture. Place in greased pan. Pour meat sauce over noodles. Cover with foil.
Bake for 45 to 55 minutes. Remove foil and top with remaining mozzarella cheese. Bake an additional 5 minutes to melt cheese.
Notes:
We baked the manicotti in a meat sauce. You can totally eliminate the meat from this dish if you would like. It will taste great either way.
Can substitute ground beef, ground turkey, turkey sausage, or breakfast sausage for the Italian sausage.
Feel free to add spinach to the cheese mixture.
Don't like cottage cheese? You can swap it for ricotta if you prefer.
My favorite store-bought spaghetti sauces are Trader Joe’s Roasted Garlic Marinara (green label), Rao’s, and La Famiglia DelGrosso.