Cheese Manicotti

Serving Size: 8

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 8 oz pkg manicotti
1 1/2 cups Ricotta cheese
2 cups cottage cheese
1/2 cup softened cream cheese
1/2 cup shredded fresh Parmesan cheese
1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1 tablespoons dried parsley flakes
1 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 cups spaghetti sauce

Do not cook manicotti. Combine ricotta cheese, cottage cheese, cream cheese, Parmesan cheese mozzerella cheese, dried parsley flakes, salt and pepper.

Mix well.

Cover bottom of a greased foil baking pan with spaghetti sauce. Place filling into a quart freezer bag. Zip closed Snip off corner. Squeeze filling into each uncooked manicotti.

Arrange on spaghetti sauce in pan.

Pour spaghetti sauce over all.

Cover with extra heavy foil. Label and freeze.


Thaw. Bake covered for 45 minutes at 350.

Uncover top with more mozzarella cheese and bake an additional 5 min or until cheese melts.

Lasagna

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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3/4 pound lasagna noodle
3/4 pound ground beef, browned and drained
3/4 cup onion, diced
20 1/4 fluid ounces spaghetti sauce
12 fluid ounces cottage cheese
12 ounces mozzarella cheese, shredded
6 ounces parmesan cheese, shredded
1 1/2 tablespoons parsley

Mix pasta sauce with onion and beef

Mix cottage cheese and mozzarella and parsley

Put a small amount of sauce on the bottom of pan

Layer first with noodles, then sauce, then cheese mixture, then parmesan

Layer again, Noodles, sauce, and cheese on the top

Freeze

Thaw

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes