Easy 5 Ingredient Baked Cheese Ravioli

Are you looking for an easy but delicious dinner that the whole family will love? Then look no further! This baked cheese ravioli is guaranteed to be a hit with everyone at your dinner table.

Not only does it require minimal ingredients, but it requires very little effort and uses frozen raviolis. A perfect solution for busy weeknight dinners or anytime you’re in a pinch! With just five simple ingredients, this dish will have you coming back for more.

This is a super simple way to make a delicious meal your family will love. This baked cheese ravioli casserole (or you can use meat raviolis) is something I have been making for years. This and our easy taco pie are my go to when we want a simple and delicious comfort food.

It uses frozen raviolis and you put them into the casserole frozen. Yup, no boiling! This is a budget friendly meal and can be made cheaper if you leave the sausage out, but we recommend the ground sausage.

Baked Ravioli Ingredients

• Sausage – Optional but we usually add it. We prefer ground sausage, but you can cook and cut up Italian sausage links as well. They are both good here!
• Ravioli – Your favorite frozen ravioli. You can use cheese or meat, we prefer cheese and then add the sausage. We have NOT tried this with any raviolis other then frozen cheese or meat. Fresh raviolis will not work either.
• Marinara or your favorite tomato sauce. You can use homemade in place of the jarred, you will need 24 ounces.
• Diced tomatoes – Whether you use homemade sauce or jarred sauce, you will need a a can of diced tomatoes (whether home canned or store bought – 14.5 ounces.)
• Shredded mozzarella cheese – bagged shredded cheese is what we use (we keep this one super simple) but you can certainly use fresh shredded. Fresh shredded will melt smoother.

You likely won’t need any seasonings if you use a sauce you like in this baked cheese ravioli casserole. We do not add any to this dinner here, but you definitely can add what you like!

Making the Ravioli Casserole

It is one of the easiest meals you can make! But there are a couple of steps to making baked frozen ravioli.

First you want to cook and drain the sausage. It is important that you do cook the sausage first in order for this dish to cook evenly and safely.

After cooking the sausage you will add the diced tomatoes and marinara sauce to the pot with the sausage. I heat it just until it is hot. Remove from heat.

Grab a 13×9 inch baking dish and we are ready to assemble!

You are going to assemble this baked ravioli into 2 layers:

• Add about 1 cup of the sauce mixture to the bottom of your casserole dish and spread it evenly across. As you can in the picture above, it will be a thin layer and that’s ok.
• Add about half of the frozen raviolis (half if an even number, 1 off if an odd number of raviolis.) Raviolis go in frozen, no thawing or boiling first.
• Pour about 2 cups of the sauce over the raviolis.
• Sprinkle about 1 cup of shredded cheese over the sauce – you can definitely use more if you love it cheesy! As much as we love cheese, we really only use 2 cups total (the raviolis are pretty cheesy.)
• Repeat layers once.

Cover the dish and bake in an oven that is preheated to 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 40-50 minutes. You want the temperature to be between 160 and 165 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of the casserole. This is important! Not just for safety, but to ensure that your raviolis are baked nicely and not undercooked.

Allow to rest for about 10 minutes after cooking before serving.

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