Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole
Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole with cream cheese, cottage cheese and sour cream
Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole - seriously delicious! Meat sauce, frozen ravioli, and 4 cheeses! The BEST pasta casserole EVER!!! Can make ahead and refrigerate or freeze for later. Frozen cheese ravioli, cream cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese, Italian sausage, spaghetti sauce, parmesan cheese, and mozzarella cheese. Serve with a simple salad and garlic bread. Great for dinner parties and potlucks! Everyone loves this easy casserole! I never have any leftovers!!
This Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole is a new favorite in our house! Meat sauce, ravioli, and tons of cheese. YUM! We ate this for lunch and dinner the same day. We just couldn't get enough of it!!! You can make this pasta casserole ahead of time and refrigerate or freeze for later. I like to make this and split it between two pans. Bake one now and freeze one for later.
As I said, we LOVED this Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole! It is loaded with tons of amazing flavor. We served this with a salad and some garlic bread. If you need a good garlic bread recipe, check out our version of Carbone's Garlic Bread. I love it!!
What is a good store-bought spaghetti sauce?
I used a jar of Trader Joe's Roasted Garlic Marinara (green label) in this casserole. I also like Rao's or La Famiglia DelGrosso jarred sauces. All three of these jarred sauces taste great! I used Italian sausage for the meat sauce.
If you don't like sausage, you can swap it out for ground beef or ground turkey. You might want to add a teaspoon of Italian seasoning to the beef or turkey to give it more flavor. Totally up to you.
One last thing about the ingredients, I used a bag of frozen cheese ravioli. There is no need to thaw the ravioli first. It will cook in the casserole.
One more thing, this casserole uses cottage cheese. I already know the emails and comments that are coming from all you cottage cheese haters! Here is my take on cottage cheese: I like cottage cheese in pasta casseroles. I NEVER ever eat it straight out of the container - yuck! BUT it is heavenly in casseroles. If you haven't tried it, I really encourage you to branch out and try it. If you aren't ready to trust the word of a tried and true picky eater, you can try and substitute ricotta for the cottage cheese. If you don't use cottage cheese or ricotta, I have lots of other casseroles on the blog. Check them out! https://plainchiken.blogspot.com/search/label/casserole
WATCH How to Make Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole
casserole, pasta, ravioli, cottage cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, italian sausage, meat sauce, freezer meal
Entree, Casserole
Italian
Yield: serves 8
Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole
prep time: 10 minscook time: 45 minstotal time: 55 mins
Million Dollar Ravioli Casserole - seriously delicious! Meat sauce, frozen ravioli, and 4 cheeses! The BEST pasta casserole EVER!!! Can make ahead and refrigerate or freeze for later. Frozen cheese ravioli, cream cheese, sour cream, cottage cheese, Italian sausage, spaghetti sauce, parmesan cheese and mozzarella cheese. Serve with a simple salad and garlic bread. Great for dinner parties and potlucks! Everyone loves this easy casserole! I never have any leftovers!! #casserole #pasta #freezermeal
ingredients:
- 1 lb Italian sausage
- 1 (28-oz) jar spaghetti sauce
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1 (8-oz) package cream cheese softened
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 2 Tbsp parsley
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 (25-oz) package frozen cheese ravioli
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese
instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Spray a 9x13x2-inch pan with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large skillet brown Italian sausage. Drain fat from skillet. Stir in spaghetti sauce and set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine cottage cheese, softened cream cheese, sour cream, parmesan cheese, parsley and garlic powder. Add ravioli. Toss to coast.
- Spread ravioli in the bottom of the prepared baking pan.
- Pour meat sauce over ravioli and top with mozzarella cheese.
- Bake uncovered for 45 minutes. Allow to cool for 10-15 minutes before serving.
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