Best 2 Sausage Stuffed Manicotti Recipes

HEALTHY SPINACH AND SAUSAGE STUFFED MANICOTTI

Steps:

• Combine onion, green pepper, garlic, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, thyme, basil, oregano, red pepper in a medium sauce pan over medium high heat. When heated through reduce heat to low and cover. (simmer about 1 hour).
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Heat teaspoons of olive oil in a skillet and saute spinach until wilted. Set aside to cool. When cool chop the spinach.
• Add sausage to skillet spinach was in and cook until browned. Drain.
• In a bowl, combine spinach, cheeses, sausage.
• Place a layer of sauce in the bottom of a 13 by 9 pan.
• Stuff noodles with cheese, spinach, and sausage and place in pan.
• Top with the rest of the sauce.
• Bake 350 for 30 to 45 minutes.

SAUSAGE STUFFED MANICOTTI

Steps:

• Cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and fat. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Remove casings from sausage. Add sausage to pan;cook 5 minutes or until browned, stirring to crumble. Add onion and bell pepper to pan; saute 5 minutes or until tender. Melt butter in a menium saucepan over medium heat. Stir in flour; cook 2 minutes, stirring constantly with a whisk. Remove from heat; grafually add milk stirring with a whisk. Return pan to heat; bring to a boil. Cook 6 minutes or until thickened, stirring constantly with a whisk. Remove from heat; stir in black pepper.Add1/2 cup milk mixture to sausage mixture; stir well. Preheat oven to 350. Spoon about 1/3 cup sausage mixture into each manicotti; arrange manicoggi in a single layer in a 13x9" baking disg coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle mozzarella over manicotti;spread remaining sausage mixture evenly over mozzarella. Top sausage mixture with pasta sauce,spreading to cover. Sprinkle with Parmesan. Bake at 350 for 35 ,inutes or until bubbly.