Recipe: Seafood-Rotini-Cheese Bake

SEAFOOD-ROTINI-CHEESE BAKE

8 oz. uncooked tri-colored pasta, cooked and drained
1 (15 oz.) can tomato sauce
1 (10 oz.) pkg. Crab Delights, flakes or chunk style (or you could use real crab meat)
1 cup fatfree cottage cheese
1/4 cup fatfree parmesan cheese
2 egg whites, beaten
1 Tbsp. chopped parsley
1 tsp. Italian seasoning
1/2 to 1 tsp. dried basil
1/4 tsp. onion powder
1/2 to 1 cup grated fatfree mozzarella cheese (optional)

Spread 1/4 cup tomato sauce in bottom of 1 1/2 quart casserole. Top with a layer of cooked pasta.

Next mix remaining ingredients *except* reserved tomato sauce, and layer on top of pasta. Top with rest of pasta and then pour remaining tomato sauce over pasta.

Bake at 375 degrees F for 30 minutes. Top with fatfree mozzarella and parmesan if desired and place back in oven until the cheese melts.

Servings: 4
Adapted by Sydney Weikert from source: Louis Kemp