Cheese Baked Penne Pasta

Cheese Baked Penne Pasta

This pasta is super easy to make on busy weeknights.
Course Main Course
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

  • 8 oz. uncooked penne pasta
  • 2 4 oz. links sweet Italian turkey sausage
  • 1 cup red pepper chopped
  • teaspoon black pepper
  • 1 ½ teaspoons dried Italian seasoning
  • 10 grape or cherry tomatoes halved
  • 1 garlic clove minced
  • 1 8oz. can herb tomato sauce
  • 1 ¼ cups mozzarella cheese shredded
  • ¼ cup fresh parmesan cheese grated

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°.
  • Cook pasta according to package directions.           
  • Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium high heat.
  • Remove the casings from the sausages.  Add sausage to pan, stirring to crumble.
  • Add red pepper, black pepper, Italian seasoning, tomatoes and garlic, stirring until pepper is tender.
  • Stir in tomato sauce.  Simmer 5 minutes.
  • Add cooked pasta to pan, tossing gently to coat.
  •  Spoon pasta mixture into an 8" square baking dish coated with cooking spray.
  • Stir in mozzarella and sprinkle parmesan on top.
  • Bake at 350° for 7 minutes or until bubbling and brown.

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