Recipe: Appetizing No Boil Baked Pasta

No Boil Baked Pasta.

You can have No Boil Baked Pasta using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of No Boil Baked Pasta

1. Prepare 1/2 pounds of dry pasta.
2. You need of Sauce.
3. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of tomato sauce.
4. You need 1 1/2 cups of broth or water.
5. Prepare 3 oz. of Block of cream cheese (nice but optional).
6. It's 1-2 cloves of garlic (or powder).
7. It's 1 of salt to taste.
8. You need 1 of pepper to taste.
9. Prepare 1 of hot sauce to taste.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of Italian seasoning (optional).
11. You need of Topping.
12. You need 1 1/2 cups of grated cheese.

No Boil Baked Pasta step by step

1. Preheat oven to 425F.
2. Spray 8X8 baking pan, break long noodles in half if you need to, to make then fit inside your pan, place pasta in pan..
3. Warm cream cheese, i just microwave it for like 30 seconds. Then I cube it..
4. Mix all sauce ingredients in a bowl. Mince garlic if using fresh. Try to break up and mix the cream cheese in as best as you can..
5. Pour sauce over pasta, mix.
6. Cover with foil, bake 30 minutes.
7. Uncover, I like to stir it, just to break up any sticking to each other noodles, and mix in any liquid hanging out at the sides..
8. Put about a cup of shredded cheese of your choice on top, place back in oven, uncovered, to just melt the cheese, not going for browned at this point..
9. Remove from oven (but it's going back in).
10. Stir the melted cheese into the pasta, that's the goal here..
11. Add the rest of the cheese on top, place back in oven, uncovered, until melted and browned to your liking, about 13 minutes for me with this cheese..
12. Let sit for 2-5 minutes to solidify, than serve..