Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baked ziti is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Baked ziti is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Baked Ziti - classic Italian American comfort food of pasta baked with sausage, tomato sauce and all kinds of gooey, yummy cheeses. Baked Ziti is so much more than just a Bolognese pasta bake…. The best recipe for baked ziti casserole.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Baked ziti:
- Make ready 1 box ziti
- Prepare 1 lb soft mozzarella cheese (unshreaded)
- Get 1 can crushed tomatoes (28 Oz)
- Get 5 small mushrooms (optional)
- Take 2 cup shredded cheeses( mozzarella or Parmesan)
- Get 3 clove garlic
- Get 1 cup marinara sauce
- Get 1 lb ground meat (cooked)
- Take 1/2 medium onion
- Make ready 1 tsp oregano
- Make ready 1 tsp basil
- Make ready 8 oz ricotta
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Instructions to make Baked ziti:
- preheat oven to 350
- cook ground meat
- cook ziti until tender
- chop and combine onion, mushrooms, ground meat, crushed tomatoes, garlic, and seasonings and let simmer in a small pan.
- slice mozzarella into about 16 even pieces
- I n a 9 x 13 baking stone or dish scoop out 1/3 of simmering sauce until the bottom of the dish is lightly covered. Then apply a layer of ziti, on top of that layer the 16 slices of mozzarella. The next layer is 1/3 of marinara combination, then spread the ricotta cheese over the sauce using a rubber spatula. The final layer is ziti, the rest of the sauce combination, and then the extra plain sauce on top of that. Then you top it off with the shredded cheese.
- Cover with tin foil and place in the oven for 35 min. Remove foil and cook for another 15 min.
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