As I look into making our family more home cooked meals, I’ve been getting a bit more daring in what I want to try. Tonight I made a new dinner and something we’ve never had before. I played around a bit and created something we will definitely be making again. Scroll down to check out our Baked Cream Cheese Rigatoni!
Baked Cream Cheese Rigatoni
Recipe Type: Entree
Cuisine: Italian
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Serves: 6-8 servings
Baked Rigatoni with Cream Cheese
An Easy Baked Pasta Recipe for Family Meal time everyone will love.
- 12 oz Rigatoni
- 1 Jar Spaghetti sauce
- 1 lb ground beef
- Italian Seasoning
- Pepper
- 8 ounces cream cheese (cubed)
- Grated Parmesan Cheese
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Prepare rigatoni pasta as directions on box.
- While pasta is cooking, brown ground beef thoroughly. Drain and rinse with hot water. Stir in spaghetti sauce. Add appropriate seasonings (pepper and dash Italian seasoning)
- Drain rigatoni and rinse with hot water. Add cream cheese to pan on low heat and return rigatoni to pan. Add teaspoon of Italian seasoning to cream cheese and noodles. Stir until cream cheese melted.
- Grease casserole dish. Add meat/sauce mixture to bottom of dish. Layer rigatoni across dish. Cover with remaining meat and sauce mixture.
- Cover with Parmesan cheese.
- Bake uncovered for 30 minutes
This recipe makes it extremely easy to adapt. Try different cheeses, sauce, and meat to make each time different!
I used Ragu Sweet Italian Sausage and Cheese Sauce as it’s our family favorite when making spaghetti. And even better, my picky “won’t touch pasta” son Nathan kept wanting more!
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43 Comments
You’ve reached the Italian in my soul–I am always craving these types of dishes but never make them myself. Does that make me a bad Italian person?
OH YUM! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
Yum! I love adding cream cheese to pasta sauce. Makes it so creamy.
This would be a hit in my house. I pinned it so I can try to make it one weekend when all of our kids are here!
Looks delicious! !!
That looks absolutely amazing!
I cook pasta all the time I never try to use cream cheese on any of my recipe I will try it looks delicious.
Looks TASTY!!! YUM!!!!!!
I must say I have never added cream cheese to my sauce. I will have to try and see how they like it!!
This looks so good!! I never thought of adding cream cheese to pasta, but I will trying this recipe out this week!! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
This looks AMAZING! And it sounds so easy to make! I am making this soon!
This is my kind of meal! Good ole comfort food.
Pasta is one of my families favorite dishes, and I personally love baked rigatoni. Rest assured I will be trying this very soon!
Yum! I love baked pasta. This looks fantastic. I can’t wait to try out this recipe
That looks delish! I really like the idea of making it so creamy!
Looks amazing! Yum!
That looks delicious!!!
My husband would love me forever if I made this for him. He has a love affair with Rigatoni.
This was my first time trying it =)
Yum. I really need to try some new recipes. Thanks for sharing, it looks delicious.
Hmm, I love rigatoni. And cream cheese. This is probably for me 🙂
Thank you for sharing your recipe, this looks amazing! I love making pasta, especially when the weather gets cooler like it is now!
My mom is Sicilian so I love baked pasta dishes and always like to find new ones to try.
I really need to mix up our meals some. This looks great.
This looks so great! Thanks for the wonderful idea for dinner nights.
This recipe looks so yummy! Thank you for sharing.
I absolutely love pasta and I love pasta recipes that don’t have a lot of ingredients but taste so good!
Bookmarking this NOW!! Husband will LOVE it!!
Looks delicious and sounds easy but unless it’s microwaveable I’ll burn down the house.
gosh, cream cheese too in this recipe? love it. i am a carb addict and this recipe is to die for 😉
Sounds amazing! How can anything be bad when adding cream cheese 🙂
Mmm, I love cheesy pasta. This one sounds delicious!
Why do you drain and rinse the hamburger meat in step number 3?
Eliminate any grease
Found on Pinterest. My family loves this. Tonight is the second time in a month I’ve made it. I add a bit of mozzarellato the top and my pasta hating boy loves it too!
this looks so good,,i am going to make this for my family they will love it
This looks sooo good! I’m so used to using ricotta in italian pasta dishes, but I think the cream cheese would make a great alternative since I always have it on hand! Thanks for the great recipe! Can’t wait to try it!
My family would like this dish. Looks delicious!
my family would love this! Pinned 😀
This looks so good, will have to try this for my family! We love pasta dishes.
Sounds wonderful. Looking forward to making it for my family.
Thank You
This has become a regular at our table. Super easy, filling, and delicious. And it tastes even better heated back up!
I LOVE hearing when others love this! Thanks for trying it and letting us know you like!