Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Perfect Baked ziti

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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….

Baked ziti is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Baked ziti is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked ziti:

1. Take 1 box ziti
2. Make ready 1 lb soft mozzarella cheese (unshreaded)
3. Prepare 1 can crushed tomatoes (28 Oz)
4. Get 5 small mushrooms (optional)
5. Get 2 cup shredded cheeses( mozzarella or Parmesan)
6. Get 3 clove garlic
7. Prepare 1 cup marinara sauce
8. Make ready 1 lb ground meat (cooked)
9. Get 1/2 medium onion
10. Get 1 tsp oregano
11. Prepare 1 tsp basil
12. Take 8 oz ricotta

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.

Instructions to make Baked ziti:

1. preheat oven to 350
2. cook ground meat
3. cook ziti until tender
4. chop and combine onion, mushrooms, ground meat, crushed tomatoes, garlic, and seasonings and let simmer in a small pan.
5. slice mozzarella into about 16 even pieces
6. 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.
7. Cover with tin foil and place in the oven for 35 min. Remove foil and cook for another 15 min.

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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