@plentifelplate: Baked Meatball Tortellini This is such a great easy weekday dinner recipe! There’s no boiling or precooking required - it all cooks in one casserole dish and it ready for the oven in less than 20 minutes! Here’s the recipe: Ingredients: - 1lb of 93/7 ground turkey or beef - 1/2 cup fresh parsley, minced + extra for optional topping - 1/2 cup grated pecorino romano + extra for topping (I HIGHLY recommend the Locatelli brand!). If you don’t have pecorino romano, grated parm will do! - 1/3 cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs - 1 large egg - 2-3 garlic cloves, minced - 1 Tbsp onion powder - 1/4 tsp ground black pepper - 24 ounces frozen cheese tortellini - 24 ounces passata tomato sauce/puree - 6 ounces jarred or premade pesto, excess oil drained - 1/3 cup water - Shredded mozzarella for topping to your liking - see recipe directions. - Optional minced parsley garnish (For the frozen tortellini, passata, and pesto, get as close to the ounces listed as possible, going a little over, if necessary! Each brand can vary slightly and that’s ok!) Baked Meatball Tortellini Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. 2. In a mixing bowl, fully combine the ground turkey, bread crumbs, 1/2 cup grated cheese, 1/2 cup fresh parsley, minced garlic, egg, onion powder, and ground pepper, ensuring everything is evenly mixed together. Set aside. 3. In a sprayed casserole dish (I used 9x13), fully combine passata, pesto, & water. Dump in frozen tortellini and fully incorporate until all tortellini are covered in sauce and layered as evenly as possible. 4. Using about 2 Tbsp of meat mixture at a time, roll the meat into meatball shapes, placing each meatball on top of the frozen tortellini mixture so that they are evenly spaced apart. You should get about 12-14 meatballs. 5. Top with a sprinkle of shredded mozzarella & grated cheese to your liking, cover with sprayed foil, and bake for 40 minutes. Uncover. Bake for an additional 10 minutes. Top with additional grated cheese & fresh parsley if you’d like and enjoy! #weeknightdinner #easydinnerideas #easymeals #tortellini #meatballrecipe

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Wednesday 24 September 2025 13:21:33 GMT