Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, awesome cheesy baked ziti. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Awesome cheesy baked ziti is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Awesome cheesy baked ziti is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
Not only is this cheesy baked ziti super easy to make AND crazy delicious, but it can be made ahead of time and frozen. Time to stock the freezer with cheesy pasta casseroles! AND, you use the same pot start to finish, which is pretty much awesome in terms of dishwashing.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have awesome cheesy baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Awesome cheesy baked ziti:
- Prepare 1 box ziti or penne noodles
- Get 1 lb sour cream
- Prepare 1 lb ground beef
- Take 2 can jar spaghetti sauce
- Get 6 oz shredded mozzarella
- Make ready 3 tbsp shredded parmesan cheese
- Make ready 1 medium onion, chopped
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning
- Take fresh ground pepper
- Prepare 2 tbsp balsamic or red wine vinegar
- Make ready 1 tsp garlic powder
- Get 16 each sliced provolone cheese
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Steps to make Awesome cheesy baked ziti:
- Line a 9 x 13 (or larger) casserole pan with Reynolds casserole liner foil/paper. If you don't have this make sure to coat pan with cooking spray.
- Boil pasta until al dente, drain and set aside.
- In a large skillet brown the ground beef.
- Add chopped onions to the ground beef and saute until the onions are translucent.
- Drain beef mixture in a colander, set aside.
- Add 2 jars of your favorite spaghetti sauce, beef mixture and 2 tablespoons of vinegar to the skillet. Set aside.
- In medium mixing bowl stir together the sour cream, parmesan and mozzarella cheeses, Italian seasoning, ground pepper and 1tsp garlic powder.
- Drizzle a small amount add the spaghetti sauce mixture in the bottom of the lined pan to keep pasta from sticking.
- Place half the pasta in the pan.
- Layer half of the sauce mixture on top of the pasta.
- Lay eight slices of provolone cheese to cover the sauce mixture.
- Soon half the sour cream/cheese mixture over the provolone and spread out.
- Layer the last of the noodles, then sauce mixture, then 8 slices of provolone and last of the sour cream/cheese mixture.
- Bake in a 350° pre-heated oven for 30 minutes or until sauce is bubbly and cheese is melted.
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