Nick loves alfredo sauce. In fact, I can’t remember a time when we went to an Italian restaurant and he didn’t get some sort of alfredo dish. Unfortunately for him (and fortunately for my waist line) I do not share the same adoration for this sauce.
Since Nick is such a good sport about trying out my little experiments, I compromised with him and made a dish that incorporated this sauce. I recently discovered gluten-free tortellini, so I decided to make a hearty pasta bake.
I’m going to warn you, this is NOT the healthiest of dishes – I had a small portion with a big salad .:)
Baked Tortellini (GF)
the ingredients:
-1 pkg. gluten-free cheese tortellini, uncooked
-3 cups homemade Marinara sauce
-1/2 cup water
-1/2 jar Alfredo four cheese sauce (All “Classico” sauces are gluten-free!)
-1/2 cup shredded Parmesan
-1/2 cup shredded Smoked Mozzarella Cheese
the method:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In 3 quart glass baking dish, layer tortellini and marinara sauce. Put water into empty sauce jar, close lid, and shake. Pour this mixture over the tortellini.
Spoon Alfredo sauce over the tortellini. Sprinkle with cheese.
Cover tightly with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 minutes longer, until tortellini is tender and cheese is bubbling and golden brown.
Enjoy!
Mmmmmmmmmmm,….lovely.
Sophie–That looks amazingly delicious. I wish we had gf tortellinni here in the states. No energy to invent one. But your post allows me to dream!
I love these kinds of dishes, especially in this weather. Good on ya for the salad, I’d probably eat out of your baking dish 🙂
Where do you get your GF tortellini? I’ve only ever found one brand of frozen ravioli that disintegrated, and, just recently, found fresh GF ravioli at Safeway that were pretty tasty. But I have never seen tortellini anywhere! Serious cravings right now 😉
They had some at the Whole Foods by my yoga studio! I’m not sure if every Whole Foods store carries it, but you can also find it on amazon 🙂 http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A16322401%2Cp_n_feature_nine_browse-bin%3A114329011
Perfect! I’ll have to look for them at my local WF. Thanks!
I would love to try it.. but you didnt mention the brand name of the tortellini that you used.. we have a whole foods close by would u mind sharing the brand that you used? ty in advance =)