Pasta and minced meat casserole

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Pasta and minced meat casserole
Pasta and minced meat casserole
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Do you want to cook something tasty, satisfying, at the same time light, and even not bother buying food? An excellent solution is a pasta and minced meat casserole, or as it is also called "lazy" lasagna.

Ready-made pasta and minced meat casserole
Ready-made pasta and minced meat casserole

Recipe content:

  • Ingredients
  • Step by step cooking
  • Video recipe

Many housewives are thinking about the question of how and what to feed a family deliciously. Today's recipe is made from well-known and affordable ingredients. After all, pasta can always be found on the shelf at home, and you can buy minced meat or twist a piece of meat that is lying in the freezer on your own. Well, additional ingredients - cheese and sour cream - will add spice and tenderness to the dish. This dish is perfect for any meal.

The general principle of cooking this casserole is as follows. All ingredients are preliminarily heat treated, then stacked in layers, forming a single dish, and sent to bake. Thanks to such a selected balanced set of ingredients, this bright, satisfying and mouth-watering casserole will appeal to absolutely everyone.

For the successful preparation of this dish, it is very important to make juicy minced meat. To do this, it is advisable to twist the meat in a meat grinder several times, and it should be fried at a high temperature so that the juice does not leak out. Then the pasta casserole will remain tasty even the next day, so you can safely cook a large portion right away!

  • Caloric content per 100 g - 171 kcal.
  • Servings - 2-3
  • Cooking time - 1 hour
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Ingredients:

  • Pasta "tubules" - 200 g
  • Meat - 400 g
  • Onions - 1 pc.
  • Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
  • Eggs - 1 pc.
  • Sour cream - 200 ml
  • Cheese - 200 g
  • Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
  • Ground black pepper - a pinch
  • Vegetable oil - for frying

Step-by-step recipe for making pasta casserole with minced meat

Meat with onions twisted through a meat grinder
Meat with onions twisted through a meat grinder

1. Wash the meat and peel the onion. Install a fine griddle grinder and twist the food. To make the meat filling more tender, pass the minced meat through the meat grinder again.

Tomatoes are twisted through a meat grinder
Tomatoes are twisted through a meat grinder

2. Rinse the tomatoes and twist the same. You can also grate them or beat them with a blender.

Minced meat fried in a pan
Minced meat fried in a pan

3. Place the pan on the stove, add oil and heat. Add the minced meat and fry it over high heat until light golden brown.

Added tomato and spices to the pan
Added tomato and spices to the pan

4. Then add the twisted tomatoes to the meat. You can use tomato juice or ketchup instead. Also season with salt, pepper and any spices.

Minced meat is ready
Minced meat is ready

5. Simmer the meat filling with the lid closed for about 5 minutes.

Sour cream with an egg is heated in a pan
Sour cream with an egg is heated in a pan

6. Pour the sour cream into another clean skillet and add the yolk.

Sour cream seasoned with spices
Sour cream seasoned with spices

7. Add any spices and heat until the first bubbles appear.

Vermicelli semi-cooked
Vermicelli semi-cooked

8. Boil the pasta in salted water. But cook them for 2 minutes less than indicated on the package, because they will come to readiness in the oven.

Vermicelli laid out in a baking dish
Vermicelli laid out in a baking dish

9. Next, start collecting the casserole. Put the vermicelli in an even layer in the mold.

Minced meat is laid out on top
Minced meat is laid out on top

10. Spread a layer of minced meat on top.

Products are covered with sauce and cheese
Products are covered with sauce and cheese

11. Pour sour cream sauce over it and sprinkle with grated cheese.

All products are laid out in turn
All products are laid out in turn

12. Place food alternately.

All sprinkled with cheese
All sprinkled with cheese

13. The last layer should be cheesy. Therefore, sprinkle the food with plenty of cheese shavings.

Ready dish
Ready dish

14. Heat the oven to 200 degrees and send the dish to bake for half an hour. Cook it under covered foil for the first 20 minutes. Then remove it to brown the cheese.

See also the video recipe on how to cook pasta casserole with minced meat.

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