This is one of the best Olive Garden copycat recipes out there – Olive Garden giant sausage stuffed rigatoni recipe. It’s an easy copycat restaurant recipe that is perfect baked recipe for dinner.
Copycat Olive Garden Giant Sausage Stuffed Rigatoni Recipe
Ingredients
- Olive Garden Bolognese, I did not use any meat, and I used grape juice instead of red wine.
- 8 ounces tomato sauce
- 1.5 lb Italian sausage
- 3/4 cup bread crumbs
- 3 eggs
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1.5 boxes Manicotti or other LARGE tube-shaped pasta *uncooked*
- 1 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- Start making the bolognese sauce about an hour before you want to put the pasta in the oven.
- Cook and crumble sausage into small pieces. Drain. Add bread crumbs.
- Whisk together eggs and milk. Remove sausage from heat and mix with mixture and parmesan cheese.
- Put a thin layer of the bolognese on the bottom of a large glass baking dish.
- Stuff each piece of tube pasta with the sausage mixture and place in baking dish.
- Cover with bolognese and then cover with mozzarella cheese. Make sure the manicotti is completely covered in sauce (add additional water if needed).
- Cover with tin foil.
- Bake at 350 for 40 minutes, remove tin foil, and bake for 10-15 minutes more.
Notes
See notes above recipe for best success
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Michelle Smith says
What is the tomato sauce used for? I’m not seeing it in the instructions.
Katie says
That was a mistake 🙂 As long as you are using the bolognese sauce, you don’t need that can of tomato sauce.
Margaret says
In the recipe for the filling, there is 8 ounces of tomato sauce, but I can’t see where you add that. Is it mixed in with the meat?
Jessica says
Thank you for this recipe! I’m hosting dinner tomorrow and will be making a double batch of this. Wish me luck!
Katie says
Good luck! I hope you love it!
Barbara curtis says
Where is the receipe for the Bolognese Sauce to make this ?
Katie says
It should be linked to in the recipe – but here it is 🙂 http://www.olivegarden.com/recipe/bolognese-sauce/man-imp-reci-prd-70
Chelsea @ Life With My Littles says
I love Olive Garden, so we’ll have to try this out!
Carrie says
I didn’t see red wine in ingredients–where did I miss it? Also, do you think this would work with giant shells?
Katie says
I apologize, I should have made that more clear. The red wine is in the Olive Garden Bolognese recipe – I have linked to that in the recipe (it’s their recipe, so I didn’t put it on my site :). And I think it would work beautifully in giant shells!