Hello Fellow Foodies!
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Today, I would like to share with you a pasta dish I prepared last week. This is one of those dishes I tend to make when I have leftover pasta sauce or cooked meat like sausages or in this case, meatballs. It's super easy to make and it's tasty too. The great thing I discovered about this recipe is that my picky toddler, who would normally turn up her nose at tomatoes, actually loved it with the pasta.
Ingredients:
4 cups cooked rotini
1 can diced tomatoes
1 cup pasta sauce
1 1/2 cup cooked meatballs halved
1 tbsp fresh basil or substitute with 1 tbsp dried basil
pinch of salt and pepper
1/4 cup Velveeta or any other brand quick melting cheese.
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Slightly grease bottom and sides of an oven safe pan with butter or cooking oil. Drain most of the liquid from the canned tomatoes. In a large bowl, mix tomatoes, sauce, meatballs and basil. Season lightly with salt and pepper. Fold in rotini. Mix well until pasta if fully coated with sauce. Pour in mixture in pan. Top with cheese and extra basil leaves if desired. Cook in oven for 15-20 minutes until cheese has completely melted. Serve hot. This yields 4 servings.
Enjoy!
