Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sharon's slow cooker baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
This easy Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is a perfect meal for those busy weeknights during the summer. Well, this delicious slow cooker recipe gives you fantastic Italian flavors, without you having to turn on your oven! With slow cooker pasta bakes like this, you get to enjoy a.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have sharon's slow cooker baked ziti using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:
- Get Half a large onion (chopped)
- Take 2 Lbs ground beef
- Make ready (2) 24oz jars of pasta sauce
- Prepare 32 oz ricotta cheese
- Make ready 1 egg (beaten)
- Get 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoon pepper
- Prepare 2 Lbs ziti pasta (uncooked)
- Get 6 cups colby monterey jack cheese
- Prepare Non stick cooking spray
Yes, you really can make baked ziti (well, "baked" ziti) in your slow cooker. And the result isn't just good — it's amazing. What it lacks in the crispy-edges department it gains in the ooey-gooey comfort-food department: tender noodles coated in marinara and mixed with a double dose of melty cheese. Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is an easy crock pot pasta dinner that's perfect for weeknight meals.
Steps to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:
- Brown ground beef and onion in large skillet; Drain fat.
- Return ground beef to skillet and mix both jars of pasta sauce with ground beef; Remove from heat.
- In a bowl mix ricotta cheese, egg, salt, and pepper
- Turn the slower cooker to high
- Spray slower cooker with non stick spray
- Spoon the sauce into the bottom of the slower cooker; Enough to evenly coat the bottom
- Spoon the ricotta cheese mixture on top of the sauce evenly coated
- Pour uncooked ziti noodles on top of ricotta cheese evenly coated
- Sprinkle colby cheese on top of pasta evenly coated
- Repeat steps 6-9 until you reach the top of slow cooker; making sure the final layer is a generous amount of colby cheese
- Put the top on slow cooker; cook for 4 hours or until pasta is tender. Avoid opening the slow cooker while cooking.
- Enjoy!!
The pasta cooks right in the sauce! I've made countless slow cooker dinners and breakfasts and even cooked rolls and cinnamon rolls in them. Seriously, there isn't much that a slow cooker can't do! This takes only a few minutes to assemble and is really, really good!!! The sauce penetrated the noodles just like a baked pasta should and the cheese was gooey and delicious!
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