Tortellini Pasta Dinner
Directions
- 1Get some ground beef and put it in your cast iron skillet.
- 2While the ground beef is cooking, get some pasta water and boil that.
- 3Add a little bit of salt in there to salt the water.
- 4Add your tortellini pasta to it.
- 5Get a block of mozzarella cheese and shred it.
- 6Once the ground beef is about halfway done, season it with salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and red pepper chili flakes.
- 7Stir around that beef.
- 8Move the beef around to get rid of the grease using a paper towel hack.
- 9Drain off the tortellini pasta.
- 10Cook the tortellini according to the package standards.
- 11Pour the whole jar of Rao's sauce into the 1 lb of cooked ground beef.
- 12Incorporate the sauce into the beef really well.
- 13Over medium-low heat, stir in the cream cheese with the meat, the seasonings, and the sauce.
- 14Add in the cooked tortellini pasta.
- 15Stir the tortellini around until it's completely incorporated with the sauce, the pasta, the meat, and the cream cheese.
- 16Take the block of mozzarella that we shredded and simply top off the dish with that mozzarella cheese.
- 17Stick it in the oven and let that cook off for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1.5 Tsp sea salt
- 1 Tsp black pepper
- 1.5 Tsp Italian seasoning
- 1 Tsp red pepper chili flakes
- 6 oz cream cheese
- 6 oz mozzarella cheese
- 1 jar Rao's marinara sauce
- 16 oz tortellini pasta
Equipment
cast iron skilletpotknifecheese gratercolanderpaper towelforkwooden spoonoven
Tips
- If you had to do it all over again, leave it in the oven for an extra 5 minutes.
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