My kids seem to like noodles. Mac and cheese, spaghetti, fettuccini alfredo etc. That being said I was thinking about how to combine noodles and a dutch oven a few days ago and came up with dutch oven manicotti. This is a great dish filled with cheesy goodness, sausage and of course noodles! I started by par-boiling the noodles. This cuts down on the cook time in the oven and makes the noodles semi pliable to aid the stuffing.
For the filling I used one 32oz container of ricotta cheese mixed with one 6oz tub of feta cheese. To this mixture dried parsley and basil were added. Please note that the feta and ricotta mixture have enough salt that you should not need to add any to this dish. This mixture made almost enough to stuff two packages of manicotti noodles. For the sauce I browned one pound mild Italian sausage in the dutch oven and added one container mild, fresh, and very juicy salsa along with one jar of spaghetti sauce. Then the manicotti were spread throughout the oven and topped with cheese. This was cooked until the noodles were finished cooking. The result was a very tasty dinner enjoyed at one of the local parks with watermelon for dessert.
As a side note remember when cooking with a dutch oven to monitor the temperature. I left my cooking to run an errand and overcooked everything! Cleaning burnt noodles and cheese from the oven is not fun…
For the filling I used one 32oz container of ricotta cheese mixed with one 6oz tub of feta cheese. To this mixture dried parsley and basil were added. Please note that the feta and ricotta mixture have enough salt that you should not need to add any to this dish. This mixture made almost enough to stuff two packages of manicotti noodles. For the sauce I browned one pound mild Italian sausage in the dutch oven and added one container mild, fresh, and very juicy salsa along with one jar of spaghetti sauce. Then the manicotti were spread throughout the oven and topped with cheese. This was cooked until the noodles were finished cooking. The result was a very tasty dinner enjoyed at one of the local parks with watermelon for dessert.
As a side note remember when cooking with a dutch oven to monitor the temperature. I left my cooking to run an errand and overcooked everything! Cleaning burnt noodles and cheese from the oven is not fun…
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