Toaster Oven No-Boil Pasta Bake Recipe
Prep Time: 5 minutes Cook Time: 70 minutes Yield: 4 servings 1x Category: Entrée Method: Baked Cuisine: Italian
This pasta bake is done in one pan and doesn’t require you to even boil the pasta first. Yes, that means the pasta is cooked in the oven! It’s amazing how delicious it is when you literally only need to spend 5 minutes prepping it. This one is going to save your weeknights for sure!
Servings 4 Servings
Equipment
- 9x9 Pan
Ingredients
- 8 oz. uncooked dried pasta shells
- 6 oz. Italian sausages
- 1 14 oz. can diced tomatoes with the juice
- 1 tbsp Double strength tomato paste
- 1 cups shredded mozzarella divided
- ½ tsp. garlic powder
- ½ tsp. salt
- ⅛ tsp. black pepper
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup chicken stock
- ¼ cup shredded Parmesan cheese
Instructions
Preparing your sausage (raw sausage)
- Set your toaster oven to 400°F.
- While the oven is heating, cut your sausages up into ~½" chunks and arrange in the pan
- Cook your sausage about 10 minutes, stirring once
Assemble your pasta
- To the baking dish add the pasta, diced tomatoes with juice, 1 cup of the mozzarella cheese, garlic powder, salt, and black pepper. Stir.
- Pour the heavy cream and chicken stock over top and make sure that all of the pasta is submerged.
- Cover with two layers of aluminum foil and make sure it is very well sealed.
- Put it in the oven until the pasta is tender, about 50 minutes.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle with the remaining 1 cup of mozzarella and the Parmesan. This is important as the sauce really thickens up in this time.
- Let the pasta bake rest uncovered for 15 minutes. This is important as the sauce really thickens up in this time. Turn your oven up to 425℉
- Return to oven uncovered just until cheese has melted, about 5 minutes.
Notes
Any small shell pasta will work for this recipe, as will farfalle/bowtie or rotini. In a pinch, if you don't have heavy cream, you can just double the amount of chicken broth.