Looking for a diferent but at same time easy dish that everybody will love? Today we are going to show you how to cook delicious pasta in a creative way.Vertical placed Italian Rigatoni Pie!

Ingredients:   

• 1 lb rigatoni pasta
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/3 lb ground beef
• 1 can crushedtomatoes
• 1 tsp dried parsley
• 1/2 tsp dried basil
• Garlic
• 1/4 tsp dried oregano
• 1/4 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 c shredded mozzarella cheese
• Parmesan cheese
• Butter to use for springfrom pan
• Salt
• Pepper

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Fill a large pot with water and boils it. Then add salt and the rigatoni pasta. Cook it for some minutes(check the label of the pasta) and then drain it, rinse out with cold water and drain again. Add 1 tbsp olive oil, stir gently and set aside for a while.

• Peel the garlic and crush them. The amount of garlic is up to you!
• Grate the parmesan and mozzarella chees
  

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Now, it is time to prepare the sauce. Take a large size pan and put it over a medium fired cooker and add 1 tbsp olive oil. Wait until the oil gets warm. Add the ground beef, salt and pepper. Stir and cook it until beef gets pink. Then add the crushed tomatoes, dried parsley, grated garlic, dried basil, oregano and pepper flakes. Season with salt and pepper again, and then stir it well. Then low the heat and keep cooking for 20 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 220 ˚C. Take a springform pan and apply butter on the bottom and edges.Toss the pasta with the grated parmesan cheese. Then place the pasta vertically inside the pan as shown in the picture. You should do it one by one and try to avoid squeezing them. There should be space inside the pasta, because you are going to fill it with the sauce.

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Pour all of the sauce on the pasta and sprinkle the grated mozzarella cheese all over it. Take the pan into the oven cooking it for about 15 minutes.

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Then take it from the oven. Set aside for a 10 minutes. Now, your vertical placed rigatoni pasta is ready. The rest is removing it from the pan carefully. Take a knife and run it along the edge of pan separate the pasta from the pan. Italian Rigatoni Pasta Pie is ready to serve! Bon Appetite!

Italian Rigatoni Pasta Pie

Pictures taken from here :http://noblepig.com/2009/03/when-the-moon-hits-the-sky/