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Sauce: Brown the meat in a skillet with your italian seasonings and garlic salt, drain when done to get fat off.
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Heat sausage up so that you can cut it into little peices, it will cook the rest of the way when in the oven.
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Combine your pasta sauce, meat, and sausage and mix together over low heat.
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While making your filling start boiling your manicotti noodles. Follow directions on box to go about boiling the noodles.
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Filling: Mix ricotta, 1 and 1/2 cups mozarella (the rest will go on top), some of the parmesean (save enough to sprnkle on top), sugar, and chopped parsley in a large mixing bowl. Add in some dried basil. (about 3 shakes).
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Take a gallon size ziplock baggy and put the filling inside. Cut a hole in bottom corner so you can squeeze filling out.
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Layer some of your pasta sauce across the bottom of the pan so the noodles do not stick to pan and because theres no such thing as too much sauce!
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Take your noodles and your ziplock and fill noodles full of filling. When all noodles are filled and aligned in your casserole pan pour remaining sauce on top of manicotti.
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Sprinkle with your leftover mozzarella and parmesean.
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Cover with foil and bake in oven at 350 for 30 minutes, then take foil off and bake an addition 10 minutes.
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Take your manicotti noodles and fill the.
