With the holidays in full swing it is nice to have a tasty freezer meal you can pull out, and this ravioli casserole recipe can be made fresh or frozen! Aka the perfect meal.
It is also a great recipe to make a double batch and then you can do both fresh and frozen meals at the same time! Honestly it is one of my favorites for that reason. We all have those nights where dinner is not happening if I have to actually make it, and that is when this recipe comes in clutch.
This is even a perfect meal for when you and your spouse want a date night and you can just pull it out for the babysitter to pop in the oven and know your kids will eat well with no complaints!
Just pair it with some honey roasted carrots, cheesy garlic texas toast (perfect for dipping in the extra sauce), and a citrus fruit salad to have the perfect dinner menu for your family.
Ingredients You’ll Need For Our Ravioli Casserole Recipe:
- Pasta sauce
- Frozen cheese ravioli
- Cottage cheese
- Mozzarella cheese
- Parmesan cheese
How To Make Our Ravioli Casserole Recipe:
Start by preheating the oven to 350 degrees.
Then in the bottom of a 9×13 inch pan spread 1 cup of the pasta sauce.
Once the pasta sauce is spread out, arrange half of the frozen ravioli over top, covering the whole bottom of the 9×13 inch pan.
Then spread about 1 more cup of sauce on top of the frozen ravioli, along with 1 cup of cottage cheese, and 1 cup of mozzarella cheese.
Repeat each of those layers, starting with the ravioli, pasta sauce, cottage cheese, and mozzarella cheese.
Now top it all off with the Parmesan cheese.
Once all of the layers are complete, place the baking pan in the oven uncovered for 30-40 minutes or until the cheese begins to bubble.
To freeze this recipe, stop after building the layers in a freezer-safe container and then place the lid on and store it for up to 30 days in the freezer.
When you are ready to make it, allow the casserole to thaw for an hour before baking it.
Then bake the casserole at 350 for 40-50 minutes or until the cheese begins to bubble.
To Make This Ravioli Casserole You Will Need:
- 9×13 inch baking pan (THIS is a great one to use!)
- Spatula
Substitutes for Cottage Cheese
I know cottage cheese is not everyone’s cup of tea, but we love it and it tastes delicious in this recipe. However, there are other substitutes you can use in place of cottage cheese.
The Chef’s Pencil has a great list of 8 cottage cheese substitutes you can check out and see which you’d like to use in place of the cottage cheese in this recipe.
Ricotta cheese would be my next favorite choice, what is yours?
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Ravioli Casserole Recipe (Freezer Meal)
Ingredients
- 3 ½ cup pasta sauce, divided
- 25 ounces cheese ravioli, frozen
- 2 cup cottage cheese
- 2 cup Mozzarella cheese, shredded
- ½ cup Parmesan cheese
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spread 1 cup of pasta sauce in ungreased 9 x 13 inch pan.
- Arrange ½ of the frozen ravioli over pasta sauce, covering the bottom of the pan.
- Top with ½ of the remaining pasta sauce, 1 cup of cottage cheese, and 1 cup of mozzarella cheese. Repeat layers again starting with ravioli.
- Top with parmesan cheese. Bake for 30-40 minutes or until cheese begins to bubble.
- To make into a freezer meal, assemble casserole as directed above in freezable container. Secure with lid and freeze for up to 30 days. Thaw for one hour before baking. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes, or until cheese begins to bubble.
Notes
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Should the mozzarella cheese listed be 2 cups rather than 4?
Hi Bev! Sorry about that, you are totally right. We just switched it to 2 cups so it should be correct now. Thanks for catching that!
Loved this! So cheesy and saucy and gooey. I was short on time so my 10-year old son put it together — it’s that easy! For the sauce, we used Prego with Italian sausage and I loved the hint of sausage flavor it gave the dish.
If freezing do you assemble and bake then freeze or just assemble frozen and dry ingredients then freeze? Thanks!
To make into a freezer meal, assemble casserole as directed above in freezable container. Secure with lid and freeze for up to 30 days. Thaw for one hour before baking. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes, or until cheese begins to bubble.
What pasta sauce do you like to use?
We have used Ragu and Classico. They all taste great in this recipe.
Thanks!
Can you use regular refrigerated raviolis? If so dies baking time differ?
Thaw the ravioli for about an hour. Bake at 350 for about 40 minutes or until cheese begins to bubble and it’s heated through.
What if you thaw in refrigerator all day before cooking that night? Would that work on the frozen option?
Thawing it all day in the fridge will work great.
I just purchased your Dinner Made Easy recipe book. We are trying this recipe and it said 4 cups of mozzarella and to layer 1/2 cup of cottage cheese. When trying to assemble, the measurements weren’t coming out correctly. We threw it in the oven anyway. Then we checked the website and noticed the correct changes online. A little nervous to try with that much cheese! Should be interesting . . .
I am making this recipe to freeze but putting it in smaller freezer containers for single meals. Will the cook time still be 40 mins?
Just pulled this out of the oven. Smells SO good!
Where the portions are a lot smaller, the cooking time will be less. Just be sure it’s heated through and that the cheese begins to bubble.
I followed directions, even thawed a little longer, baked for nearly two hours and its still not even hot in the middle. Has anyone else had an issue with the time???
I needed a quick dinner tonight and I had frozen dinner in the freezer. This was so quick and easy that not only did I make one for dinner, but I made 2 more for my freezer. Now I have dinner for tonight and 2 more for later!!!
**I added some mushrooms that had to be used as well as some ground beef. Thanks for posting such a good recipe and providing freezer meal directions too.
Why is this only good in the freezer for 30 days?
For the best quality, 30 days is a safe number. But we have eaten freezer meals that are stored properly up to 60-90 days.