Sour Cream Noodle Bake

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A good casserole should be a balanced, healthy, and filling meal in every serving. This sour cream noodle bake is all of that and more, with tons of uniquely and comforting flavors all intermingling to become your new favorite casserole.

If you have a little extra time to spare in the kitchen why not make your own Marinara Sauce to use in your noodle bake? Also don’t forget to serve your noodle bake with a side of Classic Homemade Garlic Bread!

Table of Contents

1. Sour Cream Noodle Bake
2. Do You Have To Use Rotini Pasta?
3. How To Make Your Sour Cream Noodle Bake Taste Just Like Lasagna
4. Could You Make Your Own Mexican Cheese Blend?
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6. Sour Cream Noodle Bake Recipe

Sour Cream Noodle Bake

Sour cream doesn’t get as much use as it should when it comes to homemade dishes, so why not break the mold and use it in this unique noodle bake recipe?

Providing not only sourness and creaminess, but the sour cream in this recipe also provides intense freshness, perfectly complimenting all of the cheese, meat, and tomatoes that make up the rest of this noodly dish.

This recipe is the kind of thing that is going to leave every person at the dinner table feeling totally full, so no need to prepare side dishes or worry about making dessert, either!

Do You Have To Use Rotini Pasta?

This recipe uses plentiful amounts of rotini pasta, which is that incredibly spirally, twisty pasta shape that is almost sharp to the touch.

The main reason why this shape of pasta is so perfect for this kind of recipe is that all of its edges create a bunch of little nooks and crannies, perfect for holding onto the sauce.

However, while the shape of rotini pasta easily makes it the best choice for this kind of noodle bake, you could easily substitute other pastas with similar shapes as well.

For example, though it doesn’t have nearly as many little crevices, Fusilli is a great pasta choice to help the sauce and all of your ingredients cling to the pasta.

Another slightly different option would be Penne. Though Penne doesn’t have those little spirals, twists and turns to capture sauce, it does have a giant hole in the middle, perfect for holding onto the sauce and turning each piece of pasta into essentially a sauce-carrying device.

If you go with Penne, though, keep in mind that with the sauciness of this dish, you will be at risk of the pasta pieces exploding all over you if you aren’t careful.

How To Make Your Sour Cream Noodle Bake Taste Just Like Lasagna

This noodle bake is definitely the kind of recipe that is in-between food genres; it has lots of classic Italian flavors, yet is mixed with some Mexican cheese, as well as plenty of sour cream and cottage cheese.

These varying ingredients help to make this recipe unique, as well as the simple fact that all of these taste good when paired together, but you might be looking for something a bit more familiar in flavor.

If you wanted to try and turn this into a more classic Italian lasagna, it is actually super easy and only really requires a few simple changes.

For starters, when you are preparing the tomato and meat mixture, simply sprinkle in about 2 teaspoons of Italian seasoning, so as to help encourage those uniquely Italian flavors.

From there, you only need to make one significant change: just remove the Mexican cheese blend entirely, and instead, only use mozzarella.

Not only does mozzarella have that Italian flavor, but it will also contribute a ton of that stretchy cheesiness that leaves you thinking about the tasty delights of Italian cuisine, lasagnas especially.

With just these few changes, you can turn your sour cream noodle bake into basically just an incredibly rich and delicious lasagna!

Could You Make Your Own Mexican Cheese Blend?

This recipe uses a supermarket classic, the Mexican cheese blend, to not only provide the majority of the needed cheesiness in this recipe but also give a ton of slightly spicy, umami flavors from the seasonings usually added to Mexican cheese blends.

Not everyone can easily get a hold of Mexican cheese blends, however, so what should you do if you struggle to find any?

Well, why not make your own?

Most Mexican cheese blends are little more than a blend of Cheddar cheese, Monterrey Jack, and potentially a little bit of Oaxaca or mozzarella.

From there, the cheese is mixed with a cornstarch and salt mixture to help prevent clumping, as well as a few seasonings that are vaguely Mexican in origin.

This is typically things like cumin, paprika, cayenne, and a little bit of pepper and MSG.

So if you can’t find any Mexican cheese blend at your local supermarket, feel free to just make your own by combining those ingredients together really well, and then using that instead!

Splurging and getting some Oaxaca cheese is definitely worth it if you can find it as well; it is just like mozzarella when it comes to stretchiness, but has this totally different, delicate, almost fresh taste that just can’t be beaten.

Looking for more delicious Pasta recipes? Try these out:

• Creamy Chicken Pesto Pasta
• Vegetable Lasagna
• Cheesy Egg Noodles

Happy Cooking!

Love,

Karlynn

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