2-Ingredient Pasta Dinners · Number 6

Penne and Meat Sauce

  • Two ingredients
  • 50 min
A modest portion of baked penne in thick meat sauce on one ordinary dinner plate at the kitchen table, one fork, steam lifting, the eater's view
Watch the video

You need

Good to know: Two suppers each; salt, pepper, oil and water are free.

What to do

  1. Oven 400°F.
  2. Penne into an 8-inch square dish, jar over the top, plus half a jar of water.
  3. Push every piece under.
  4. Foil on tight, bake 40 min; 10 more if still firm.

Adapted from a recipe by Lexi's Clean Kitchen.

Watch Ruth make it

Ruth's cookbook

Ruth Bell's 2-Ingredient Kitchen

Fifty two-ingredient recipes in large print, one recipe to a page, with a picture for every one.

See inside the cookbook