Easy Way to Make Sausage and Spinach Bake Recipe

Sausage and Spinach Bake. A friend gave me the recipe for this delicious dish, which uses a packaged stuffing mix. A salad and bread of your choice is all you'll need for a filling lunch or dinner. It's so versatile, you can even serve it at brunch. -Kathleen Grant, Swan Lake, Montana.

Baked ziti is meant to feed a crowd, and this one surely does. "Cheater" meatballs made with uncased Italian sausage are strewn throughout the sauce for heft, and baby spinach lends a pop of color. Brown sausage in skillet over medium high heat. Add spinach and season with a little salt and pepper and cook another minute. You can make tasty Sausage and Spinach Bake using 10 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it with this recipe.

Basic Ingredients of Sausage and Spinach Bake

1. Prepare 1-16 ounce of box pasta (any shape you like).
2. You need 1 (1 pound) of Italian sausage links (hot or sweet, I love using HOT 🥵!!!).
3. Prepare 1 of onion, chopped.
4. You need 1 of green pepper, chopped.
5. You need 6 cloves of minced garlic.
6. Prepare 1/2 cup of white wine.
7. It's 2 pounds of baby spinach leaves.
8. It's of Sprinkle Black Pepper.
9. You need of Salt for boiling water.
10. It's 2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese.

Put half of the cooked pasta into the prepared baking dish and top with half of the meat sauce. Three cheeses, spinach and sausage create a delicious egg bake. Baby spinach, bell pepper & mushrooms are combined with rice, eggs, feta cheese and sausage. This baked ziti with sausage is your classic pasta recipe that is comforting and filling.

Sausage and Spinach Bake step by step

1. In a large pot sauté the Italian sausage (remove from casing), breaking up the pieces as they brown.......
2. Next add your onion, green pepper and minced garlic to browned sausages.......Sauté until onions and green peppers are tender.......
3. Add your 1/2 cup of white wine and continue to sauté until most of the wine has reduced.......
4. Now add your baby spinach and keep sautéing until spinach is wilted.......add your black pepper......
5. Boil pasta until slightly done, drain, then add pasta to sausage mixture and mix all well......
6. Pour pasta mixture into a large baking pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray.......
7. Add your 2 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese over the top.......
8. Bake, uncovered, in a preheated 375 degree oven for 20 minutes or until Cheese is melted on top......
9. Serve and enjoy 😉!!!.

It tastes a lot like a lasagna casserole, but much easier to make. Healthy vegetables, such as broccoli and spinach are so finely hidden in this Baked Ziti with Sausage, that I had to really dig for them in order to take. Baked ziti usually requires at least three pots and pans. Wouldn't just one pot be better? We start this easy one-pot meal by browning sweet Italian sausage in a Dutch oven before adding canned tomato sauce and canned diced tomatoes.