Baked Italian Sausage Rotini is a savory, cheesy, and a little spicy. It is an easy dinner and can be frozen and reheated later.
This Italian Sausage Rotini is a husband favorite (our kids love it too)! It a little spicy and really cheesey and just yummy, there usually isn’t any left. And I love it because it is so easy to throw together and pop in the oven. If there are any leftovers, this reheats really well for lunches. I have also done this as a freezer meal before, just freeze it and then thaw it out before baking. I have taken this over as a meal for neighbors too, but I usually leave out the red pepper flakes if I am giving it to other people! We like it spicy but I know some people aren’t a fan of the heat! I realize it’s called an italian sausage rotini bake but we like mixing it up with the noodles, we do either rotini, bowtie, or wagon wheel noodles, all three are good!
INGREDIENTS
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 tsp. minced garlic
- 1 pkg. uncooked ground italian sausage
- 1 pkg. curly bowtie, or wagonwheel noodles - cooked
- 1 bottle 4 cheese spaghetti sauce 24 oz.
- 1 tsp. red pepper flakes
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese divided
INSTRUCTIONS
- Roll the ground italian sausage into small balls. In a large fry pan, brown the garlic in olive oil. Then add sausage balls and cook until browned.
- In a large bowl toss together the sausage with all the other ingredients reserving 1 cup of cheese.
- Pour pasta mixture into a 9x13 inch pan lined with cooking spray. Bake at 375 for 25 min. Top with remaining cheese and bake 5 more minutes.
The Quinn Family says
July 21, 2011 at 10:52 pmmy 18 year old daughter is back from BYU for the summer and made this for dinner this evening. We had some left over homemade sauce from the chicken parmesan meal a couple of nights ago.She mixed the left over sauce with a jar of the 4 cheese sauce. This was a big hit at our house. I think it is a super kid friendly meal. We all loved it!
Stephanie Quinn, Mt Airy, MD
Michelle Levine says
May 3, 2012 at 5:19 pmI love the wagon wheel noodles ! Very easy recipe that sounds delic ! Great photo too. I want to make this and sneak in some veggies or maybe use spaghetti sauce that has ’em in there:)
Tammy says
May 4, 2012 at 11:33 amWe can’t do spicy, but this looks delicious. Can I leave out the pepper flakes (say yes please…lol)?
Emily says
May 4, 2012 at 9:24 pmOf course you can leave them out! 🙂
Lynne says
May 27, 2012 at 5:29 pmthis sounds great! What size jar of spaghetti sauce did you use?
Emily says
May 28, 2012 at 10:06 pmI use a 24 oz. jar. I went ahead and added that to the recipe. Thanks!
Tyanna says
January 14, 2013 at 6:38 pmMy family and I love this recipe , very delicious.
Megan says
September 6, 2014 at 5:40 amLove this recipe! How do you make those twisty breadsticks in the photo? Thanks!