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This Baked Tortellini Lasagne pasta recipe is ready in just 10 minutes. Meet a new favourite vegetarian family meal shortcut dinner when time is tight.
If you love pasta (who doesn’t?) and find yourself reaching for the same old dishes on those plate-spinning days when people are running in and out of the door at different times, you need this Tortellini Lasagne idea.
Is it really a lasagne? No. Is it layered pasta with tomato sauce and cheese on top? Kind of. Is it ready in 10 minutes for a fuss-free, super-fast feast? Oh YES!
It’s also really delicious and tastes as though far more effort has gone into it than really has.
Why you’ll love this Baked Tortellini recipe
⭐️ Speedy, simple dinner
⭐️ Satisfying and hearty
⭐️ Inexpensive ingredients
About this recipe
I love it when I find a new budget meal that’s easy but pleases everyone at dinnertime because it’s a bit different and has loads of flavour.
The ingredients are simple and cheap too, so you can have them in the cupboard ready for busy days or even weekends when you can’t be bothered to cook.
Other shortcut meals for when the day calls for it that are similar to this (and that I also love) are my Quick Chicken Tacos, Naan Bread Pizzas and Halloumi Burgers – all huge treats, delicious, quick and total cheats!
And if it’s 10-minute pasta dishes you’re after, try my Classic Tuna Pasta Salad, my Easy Macaroni Cheese, my Creamy Garlic Prawn Pasta, my Creamy Cheese Pasta and my Pesto Pasta Salad (more like 15 minutes).
Tortellini Pasta Bake Ingredients notes
- Tortellini – You can use the dry or fresh fridge kind from the supermarket. I use 2 x 250g packs of fresh Spinach and Ricotta Tortellini.
- Homemade sauce: This is a simple tomato pasta sauce – so much healthier than the processed stuff you get in a jar and it’s so easy! It’s made up of pasta, garlic granules, oregano, honey, tomato puree and a bit of salt and pepper.
Substitutions
- Fresh pasta – This is a vegetarian recipe but if you’d prefer some meat, you can just choose a different tortellini filling in the supermarket (eg. ham and cheese, chicken and bacon).
Reheating leftovers
In the fridge You can keep this recipe in the fridge for 3 days, although bear in mind this might be a little mushy when you reheat it as fresh pasta is more delicate.
Top tip
Type of tortellini
You can use the dry or fresh fridge kind from the supermarket. I use 2 x 250g/9oz packs of fresh Spinach and Ricotta Tortellini.
FAQ
You can serve this up on its own for ease, but if you’d prefer to add some sides, stick to a simple green side salad and perhaps some garlic bread.
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Spinach and Ricotta Baked Tortellini Lasagne {10 Minute Meal}
Ingredients
- 500 g (1.1 lb) Tortellini, I used 2 x 250g packs
- 240 g (9 oz) Spinach
- 120 g (4 oz) Grated mozzarella
For the sauce:
- 500 g (2 cups) Passata
- 2 tsp Garlic granules
- 2 tsp Dried oregano
- 1 tbsp Runny honey
- 2 tbsp Tomato puree
- Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the grill to HIGH.
- In a large pan of salted boiling water cook the tortellini according to pack instructions (usually 5 minutes).
- Mix up the sauce ingredients.
- 1 minute before the end of the pasta cooking time, add the spinach to the boiling water. Drain the pasta and spinach (make sure you drain well so that the finished dish isn't watery).
- Put the pasta and spinach into a shallow casserole dish or roasting tin, pour over the sauce, cover with the mozzarella.
- Pop under the grill for 5 minutes until golden.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This post was originally published on July 12, 2022 and updated later to make improvements.
So easy, quick and minimal ingredients . Tasted amazing, kids wolfed it down . A midweek winner 🏆
So good! Served it up for Sunday lunch and the guest had seconds. On my list to do again. Yum!
Hi Sarah, I love the quick recipes 👍🏻and this looks delicious 😋I’ll do this tmrw,look fwd to eating it😀Thankyou
I’d order your book but I’m veggie, who eats fish,so don’t need meat recipes.
Hello Should I have warmed up the pasta sauce before pouring onto the cooked pasta. I put the dish under the grill (not in the oven) and the cheese melted and browned but the tomato sauce hadn’t heated up. Not sure if I’ve missed a step out. Thanks
Where’s the ricotta in the recipe?
The ricotta is in the tortellini: in the ingredients notes, Sarah states that she uses 2 packs of spinach and ricotta tortellini in the recipe. Hope that helps.
Tried this for the first time. The recipe doesn’t state whether the sauce should be heated beforehand so I didn’t and it didn’t get hot enough under the grill.
Will add 1 tablespoon less of honey next time and heat the sauce before pouring over pasta. Otherwise, lovely, very tasty
A great quick meal. I was pleasantly surprised by this meal. It was actually really tasty and felt so much more of a meal than the filled pasta on its own, kids loved it too.. Such a great one to have tucked away for super speedy meals. Thanks!