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Cheesy Sausage Pasta Bake

Rotini, kielbasa, and tomato sauce baked under a thick cheddar-mozzarella crust.

Cheesy Sausage Pasta Bake, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
42 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$7.68

Ingredients

  • 12 oz rotini
  • 14 oz kielbasa / smoked sausage
  • 24 oz jarred marinara sauce
  • 6 oz shredded mozzarella
  • 6 oz shredded cheddar cheese
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tsp italian seasoning blend
  • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 400F and boil the rotini until just under al dente. Drain.

  2. Slice the kielbasa into coins and brown in the oil in a skillet over medium-high, 5 minutes.

  3. Add the diced onion and cook 4 minutes, then stir in the marinara, Italian seasoning, and salt.

  4. Toss the pasta with the sauce and scrape into a baking dish.

  5. Cover with both cheeses and bake 20 minutes until bubbling and browned on top.

  6. Rest 5 minutes before serving.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 9 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£30.00£7.509 of 9 ingredients
United States$30.70$7.688 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 37,10€ 9,288 of 9 ingredients
Australia$50.00$12.507 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$44.94$11.247 of 9 ingredients
Greece26,70 €6,68 €7 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬١٤٧٫٤٨ ج.م.‏‏٢٨٦٫٨٧ ج.م.‏7 of 9 ingredients
Canada$64.52$16.137 of 9 ingredients
Germany16,08 €*4,02 €6 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$850.46*$212.626 of 9 ingredients
Spain13,38 €*3,35 €5 of 9 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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