Cheesy Easy Cavatini Venison Optional Recipes

CAVATINI SUPREME

Steps:

• In a large oven safe skillet, saute ground beef and sausage with onions and pepper. When meat is browned, remove from heat and drain. Add mushrooms, marinara, and pasta and mix well. Taste and add seasonings if needed. Mix in pepperoni, Top with Parmesan, then Mozzarella.
• Preheat oven to 350º. Bake about 30 minutes or until the dish is hot and cheese is golden.

CAVATINI

Steps:

• 1. Combine all ingredients.
• 2. Put into large baking pan and top with cheese.
• 3. Bake in 450-degree oven until cheese is melted and slightly browned.

EASY CAVATINI

Steps:

• Chop the onion and green pepper.
• Cook pastas together; drain well.
• Saute beef, onion, and green pepper until beef is no longer pink and vegetables are soft. Add the pepperoni and heat thoroughly. Drain excess grease.
• Add spaghetti sauce and simmer 5 minutes.
• Spray a 3-qt casserole with cooking spray. Put 1/2 of the pasta in the casserole. Spoon 1/2 of the meat sauce mixture over the pasta. Spoon the container of cottage cheese over the sauce. Sprinkle with 1/2 of the mozzarella cheese.
• Top with the remaining pasta, then sauce, then mozzarella cheese.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes.

CHEESY EASY CAVATINI * VENISON OPTIONAL

Steps:

• Boil pasta according to package instructions, drain and pour into 13x9 pan.
• While pasta is cooking, brown the meats; sprinkle with herbs, mixing well. Remove from heat.
• Mix spaghetti sauce (I use half home-made canned sauce and half from a store-can) with meat; add mushrooms and peppers; pour over pasta in pan.
• Sprinkle on the grated cheeses.
• Cover with foil or lid; bake for 30 minutes; remove foil and bake for 10-15 minutes more (crusty and bubbly).
• VARIATION: Add sliced black olives.
• VARIATION #2: Use leftover spaghetti-meat sauce.
• VARIATION #3: Leave out the ground meats and ONLY use pepperoni -- completely different taste to it!

CAVATINI

Steps:

• Cook the beef, sausage, onion and green pepper until brown.
• Drain and set aside.
• Mix the pepperoni, tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, salsa, mushrooms and salad peppers.
• Stir into the meat mixture.
• Add the cooked pasta shells.
• Spoon 1/2 of the mixture into 2 greased 11x7 inch baking dishes.
• Combine the two cheeses and divide the amount in half.
• Take one half of the cheese and sprinkle on top of the meat in each dish.
• Take the remaining 1/2 of the meat mixture and cover the cheese in the two dishes.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Top each dish with the remaining 1/2 of the cheese.
• Bake 5 more minutes or until cheese is bubbly.

CAVATINI ITALIANO

Steps:

• In large sauce pan add all ingredients,but pasta and cheeses.
• Cover and simmer for 1 hour.
• Cook pasta (dente) about 10 minutes.Drain.
• Alernate pasta,meat sauce and cheeses into a 9x13 baking dish.
• Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
• Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.
• Note-you may omit mushrooms,but you really need the onion and green pepper for a wonderful flavor -- .
• I have made this recipe again and substituted 1-can 26 1/2oz Del Monte Spaghetti sauce,1/2 cup red wine and 6 garlic cloves my family said it was as good if not better than orginial recipe.

CAVATINI

Steps:

• Brown Sausage,Hamburger,Onion, Pepperoni, and Mushrooms.
• Drain Fat.
• Mix in all other ingredients except Cheese and Noodle.
• Cook Noodles in large amount of water.
• Drain.
• Place Noodles in greased 9x13in.
• pan.
• Pour Meat mixture over Noodles, then top with Cheese.
• Bake 350* for 30 minutes.