Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Baked Ziti

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, baked ziti. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baked Ziti is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Baked Ziti is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Baked Ziti is a classic Italian American comfort food of pasta baked with sausage, tomato sauce and all kinds of gooey, yummy cheeses. This easy baked ziti recipe is made with homemade marinara sauce, creamy ricotta, basil, and lots of mozzarella cheese! I turn to this easy baked ziti recipe anytime I'm serving a crowd. Baked Ziti is so much more than just a Bolognese pasta bake….

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook baked ziti using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:

1. Prepare 1 lb dry ziti pasta
2. Take 1 onion, chopped
3. Take 1 lb italian sausage (or ground beef…I like ground sausage better)
4. Make ready 2 tsp minced garlic
5. Make ready 2 tsp italian seasoning
6. Take 2 jars of spaghetti sauce (26 oz each)
7. Take 6 oz provolone cheese (9-12 round slices)
8. Prepare 1 1/2 cup sour cream
9. Prepare 8 oz mozzarella cheese
10. Prepare 1 grated parmesan cheese
11. Make ready butter

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. Because you don't have to wrestle pasta sheets or lasagna noodles or. Baked Ziti is a classic baked pasta dish. 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.

Steps to make Baked Ziti:

1. Cook pasta according to package.
2. In a large skillet, brown onion and sausage ovef medium heat. Drain the fat. Add minced garlic and cook for a minute or so. Add spaghetti sauce and Italian seasoning and simmer for 15 mins.
3. Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter a 9x13 baking dish. Layer as follows: 1/2 of the ziti, 1/2 of the sauce mixture, provolone cheese, sour cream, remaining ziti, remaining sauce mixture and then sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top then the grated parmesan cheese.
4. Bake for 30 minutes in ghe preheated oven or until cheeses are melted. You may want to cover it for the first 20 minutes with foil and then let the cheese melt and brown for the last 10 minutes.
5. Optional: Serve with garlic knots (our fav) or garlic toast. Enjoy!

Baked Ziti is a classic baked pasta dish. 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. This is seriously the Best Baked Ziti Ever. Your family is going to love the homemade meat sauce, and that ricotta and cream cheese topping takes it to the next level! This Baked Ziti is a classic Italian-American comfort food!

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