{"id":552,"date":"2015-02-15T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T18:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/?p=552"},"modified":"2016-02-16T19:23:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:23:51","slug":"baked-rigatoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/baked-rigatoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Baked Rigatoni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those &#8220;easy to improvise&#8221; dishes and since we mostly always have homemade pasta sauce in the freezer we can whip this up and have it on the table in no time at all.<\/p>\n<p>We have made this dish with a boneless, skinless chicken breast cut into cubes and mixed with 1 tbls of olive oil, a clove of garlic, 1\/2 teas dried basil and oregano, salt and pepper and a handful of mushrooms.\u00a0 I then pan fried it for a couple of minutes adding to the pasta along with some soaked sun dried tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>We have also made it with meatballs which are made with 1\/2 lb ground meat of your preference. Add to the meat 2 tbls flax meal and 4 oz mushrooms which have been finely diced or processed in the food processor, along with an egg, 2 tbls. milk, salt &amp; pepper and 1\/2 teas basil and oregano. Bake them in the oven for 15 min at 350F prior to adding to pasta dish.<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-ingredients\"><h3>Ingredients<\/h3><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">3 1\/2 cups rigatoni<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">500 ml pasta sauce<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/3 cup basil leaves, divided<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1\/4 teas salt &amp; pepper<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 spicy sausages or meatballs or chicken<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">2 tbls dry bread crumbs<\/li>\n<li class=\"ingredient\">1 cup grated cheese(romano and\/or mozzarella)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"shortcode-directions instructions\"><h3>Directions<\/h3><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Par-cook rigatoni for 7 minutes. Reserve 1 cup of cooking liquid. Transfer pasta to an oiled 9&#8243; X 11&#8243; baking dish.<\/li>\n<li>In a bowl combine the pasta sauce (preferably homemade) and the water, half the basil leaves and salt &amp; pepper. Pour over the pasta.<\/li>\n<li>Squeeze the sausages out of their skins and cook in a small saucepan.\u00a0 Scatter over the pasta and sauce. Alternately, do the same with meatballs or chicken.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle with dry breadcrumbs and cheese.<\/li>\n<li>Bake 15 min at 425F until bubbling. Sprinkle with remaining basil leaves and serve.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Optional:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I found a delicious pasta at Costco.\u00a0 It is True Roots Rigatoni.\u00a0 It does not have white flour in it.<\/p>\n<p>Homemade pasta sauce is always much better but can be substituted for your favourite jarred pasta sauce.<\/p>\n<p>Bread crumbs should be cubes and not finely ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those &#8220;easy to improvise&#8221; dishes and since we mostly always have homemade pasta sauce in the freezer we can whip this up and have it on the table in no time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,86,81],"tags":[280,35,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ravenview.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}