# Tortellini Pasta Dinner

This dinner is quick, easy, delicious and only needs about five main ingredients to make it.

- Total time: 15 min
- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## 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

## Instructions

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

## Equipment

- cast iron skillet
- pot
- knife
- cheese grater
- colander
- paper towel
- fork
- wooden spoon
- oven

## Tips

- If you had to do it all over again, leave it in the oven for an extra 5 minutes.

## Source

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- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/06892ccc-4928-4bc0-aa53-703f6fadb969
- Extracted: 2025-08-10

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