Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baked ziti. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Baked ziti is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. 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…. It's a big, juicy baked pasta that's loaded with flavour from a healthy dose of seasonings and topped with a generous amount of cheese.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Baked ziti:
- Make ready 1 box ziti
- Get 1 lb soft mozzarella cheese (unshreaded)
- Make ready 1 can crushed tomatoes (28 Oz)
- Get 5 small mushrooms (optional)
- Prepare 2 cup shredded cheeses( mozzarella or Parmesan)
- Make ready 3 clove garlic
- Prepare 1 cup marinara sauce
- Get 1 lb ground meat (cooked)
- Make ready 1/2 medium onion
- Take 1 tsp oregano
- Take 1 tsp basil
- Get 8 oz ricotta
It's basically some kind of tomato or meat sauce baked in a dish with some kind of cheese and, of course, ziti noodles—unless you're me. Baked Ziti Is Lasagna's Chill, Laid-Back Cousin. Lasagna and baked ziti share a lot of the same ingredients, but I find that baked ziti is a lot easier to throw together and serve. This Baked Ziti is a classic Italian-American comfort food!
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.
It's easy to make, perfect for a weeknight meal or a special occasion. Tender pieces of ziti noodles, delicious meat sauce. Ultimate Italian Baked Ziti creamy casserole with a homemade meat sauce, super EASY to Baked Ziti is the ultimate in Italian Casserole dishes and I'd feel like I was holding back if I didn't tell you that. A saucy, cheesy Baked Ziti Recipe! With a robustly flavored homemade tomato sauce (made with Italian sausage), ricotta and melty, bubbly mozzarella cheese, this is comfort food at its finest.
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