Baked Manicotti With Pepperoni Meat Sauce

This delicious manicotti recipe uses flat no-boil lasagne noodles for a fast and easy weeknight dinner. Adapted from cook's country tv, adjusted to our family's taste and put here for safe keeping. This recipe has now become a regular at our house. Enjoy.

Steps

Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven to 375 degrees.

Meat pulse the pepperoni in a food processor until ground.

Add beef and pulse until thoroughly combined.

Transfer beef mixture to large saucepan.

Add the onion , garlic , and spices and cook over medium heat , breaking up mixture with wooden spoon , until beef is no longer pink , about 5 minutes.

Using slotted spoon , transfer 1 cup beef mixture to paper towel-lined plate and reserve.

Sauce: add spaghetti sauce to the meat in the saucepan and simmer until heated through.

Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Begin making noodles and filling while sauce is simmering.

Noodles pour 2 quarts very hot tap water into 13x9 inch baking dish.

Place noodles into the water one at a time.

Soak noodles until pliable , about 8-10 minutes.

Filling in a large bowl , combine all filling ingredients and the reserved meat.

Mix well.

Assembly drain noodles on place them in a single layer onto kitchen or paper towels.

Ingredients

pepperoni, lean ground beef, onion, garlic cloves, italian seasoning, crushed red pepper flakes, spaghetti sauce, salt and pepper, ricotta cheese, italian cheese blend, provolone cheese, eggs, no-boil lasagna noodles, parmesan cheese