Brown Ground Beef. Add diced onion. Start your water to boil the pasta while you are preparing the ground beef.
Cook for a few minutes. Add minced garlic. Cook for about a minute.
Add seasonings and cook another minute or so.
Add marinara sauce to the ground beef. Start preparing the blended cottage cheese mixture. I used the pot that I cooked the noodles in. Place cottage cheese and the rest of the cheeses. Add the drained pasta into the cheese mixture and stir.
In a 9x13 or a casserole dish place half of the ground beef mixture in the bottom.
Spread the ground beef mixture to cover the bottom of the dish. Top with the pasta mixture. When the pasta mixture has been spread and covers the ground beef mixture, top with the remaining ground beef mixture.
Once the ground beef mixture has been spread sprinkle the top with a little cheese, if desired. Bake at 350 for about 15 minutes. Everything is warm, you just want to get it hot.
When bubbly, carefully remove from the oven.
Serve warm.
