This Easy Sausage Manicotti recipe is spectacular! Who doesn’t love a six-ingredient dinner recipe? It’s so easy to make, plus you don’t have to pre-cook the manicotti. Now that’s my kind of a recipe. E-A-S-Y! I used mild Italian sausage, ricotta cheese, a jar of spaghetti sauce, mozzarella cheese and Italian seasoning for increased flavor.
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I know that anytime I make a pasta recipe, my husband is sure to eat it. Plus, he will eat leftovers over and over again. Not so with other food. While nothing is better than my favorite manicotti recipe, it’s also a lot of work. I make it every year for John’s birthday. This easy manicotti recipe, however, is so quick and easy that it makes my head spin.
The nice thing about this entree is it only takes about 15 minutes to prepare. Then pop it in the oven, and it’s done in about an hour. I added a tossed Poppyseed Mandarin Salad and it was all we needed. Easy and delicious.
If you want one of the easiest, quickest manicotti entrees ever, give Easy Sausage Manicotti a try. This great recipe will surely become a staple in your house and be requested frequently. 
Easy Sausage Manicotti is a humdinger of a recipe!
This six-ingredient recipe is so quick and easy to prepare.
We served it with Poppyseed Mandarin Salad and both were terrific.
If you enjoy manicotti, this is a great recipe.
Here’s what I did.
I used these ingredients.
Brown Italian sausage in a skillet over medium heat until meat is no longer pink.
Drain sausage on paper towels. Pat the sausage dry on top with paper towels, too, to remove excess grease.
Toss drained Italian sausage into a mixing bowl. Add ricotta cheese and Italian seasoning.
Stir ingredients together to combine.
Spread one-half cup of spaghetti sauce over the bottom of a 9×13″ glass baking dish.
Stuff manicotti to the brim with Italian sausage mixture. Place manicotti shells in a single row in baking dish.
Cover manicotti shells with remaining spaghetti sauce.
Sprinkle with remaining Italian seasoning.
Bake manicotti at 350 degrees for about 45-55 minutes, or until manicotti is softened and can be pierced with a fork. (Mine took about 55 minutes).
Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over top of cooked manicotti.
Return casserole dish to oven and bake an additional 5-10 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
Serve with garlic bread and a tossed salad, if desired.
Easy Sausage Manicotti is just that. E-A-S-Y!!! This entree is kid-friendly too.
This meal was perfect served with Poppyseed Mandarin Salad.
If you enjoy manicotti and can eat sausage, this is a wonderful recipe to try.
Here’s the recipe.
EASY SAUSAGE MANICOTTI
(My own concoction)
- 1lb. mild Italian pork sausagecrumbled
- 15oz. container ricotta cheese
- 8oz. box uncooked manicotti shells
- 1tbsp. Italian seasoningdivided use
- 24oz. jar spaghetti sauceany variety
- 1cup mozzarella cheeseshredded (4-oz.)
- Crumble sausage into a large skillet.
- Fry over medium heat until sausage is no longer pink.
- Remove cooked sausage to a paper towel-lined plate to drain for a few minutes.
- Pat sausage dry with paper towels to remove all grease.
- Combine cooked sausage, ricotta cheese and 1 ½ tsp. Italian seasoning in a mixing bowl.
- Stuff manicotti shells with sausage mixture.
- Spoon ½ cup spaghetti sauce into the bottom of a 9x13” glass baking dish.
- Place manicotti shells in single layer in baking dish.
- Pour remaining sauce over top of shells.
- Sprinkle remaining Italian seasoning evenly over top of manicotti.
- Cover dish with foil.
- Bake at 350° for 45-55 minutes or until manicotti is soft and can be pierced with a fork.
- Uncover; sprinkle mozzarella cheese over top of shells.
- Bake an additional 10 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
- Yield: 14 manicotti or 7 servings.
NOTE: Even if you stuff the manicotti shells to the brim, there will be extra filling that you will not use in this recipe.
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The Italian sausage and ricotta cheese filling is wonderful.
I stuffed the shells to the brim. I still had a little sausage mixture left over that didn’t fit into the shells.
This ooey, gooey, Italian entree is perfect for company.
Easy Sausage Manicotti is so easy to prepare, you can make it more often for family dinners.
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