No Boil Cheesy Pasta Casserole

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This dump and bake dinner has all of the flavor of your favorite pasta dishes with no time spent over the stove! It’s the perfect mix of pasta, cheese, sausage and sauce without any of the effort!

This casserole is filling and delicious.  The best part is it has all of the flavors of lasagna without the prep work. You don’t have to boil the noodles or cook the sausage. 

Just dump it all in the pan and bake it to perfection! This pasta bake is sure to become a regular at your dinner table.

No boil pasta dishes are not exactly new to our kitchen, but I’m on a newfound mission to see how far we can take them!

We have had no boil baked macaroni and cheese several times and I’m always amazed how well it turns out. The noodles cook in the milk and the starch thickens the sauce perfectly.

So it seemed like it was about time to start applying that principle to more recipes. Because not boiling the noodles means less work and fewer dirty dishes!

We really enjoyed the creamy beef and pasta casserole I shared a while back. So I thought it would be fun to make something similar in a dump and go recipe.

This pasta bake takes the basic idea to the next level. It starts with uncooked pasta and raw Italian sausage.

So the flavors are more in line with our favorite lasagna. Seeing as lasagna is a dish none of us can say no to, I knew it would go over big.

The dump and go method tweak means you are saving yourself a dirty saucepan and a skillet. Not to mention the time savings of not boiling the noodles or browning the meat.

Instead you just layer them along with dollops of ricotta in your baking dish.  Pour a mixture of sauce and water or broth o er the top to add the liquid.

You cover the whole thing with foil and let the oven do the work for you. At the end, remove the foil and add some cheese.

Pop it back in the oven to finish it off and melt that cheese topping to gooey golden perfection. After a few minutes rest, it’s ready to eat.

Your family will think you went overboard but you barely had to lift a finger! Don’t worry though, I won’t tell them how easy it was.

You can sit back and collect the compliments guilt free. After all you did get a delicious dinner on the table and that deserves praise no matter if there were shortcuts involved or not.

In fact you should probably get double kudos for being smart enough to make it happen! I’ll be proud of you if nothing else!

We love having a little garlic bread with dinners like this. Broccoli or a green salad will help round it out and turn it into a complete meal.

As always, I love to hear about your ideas in the comments. Or tell me about your favorites on social media.

Have you ever made other no boil type casseroles? Tell me about your favorites if you have.

I’d love to try more easy dump and bake dinners like this. Let me know if you would too and I’ll work on more recipes to share with you.

More Pasta Recipes:

If you would like to try more no boil dinners, make a no boil pizza pasta bake. It has all of the flavors of pizza in a fun baked pasta form.

The Velveeta lasagna we grew up on is another wonderful option. It is a fun twist on a classic lasagna.

Or try making one pot skillet lasagna if you don’t want to turn on the oven. Check out my collection of pasta recipes for more dinner inspiration.

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