Baked Ziti
Baked Ziti

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baked ziti. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Try RICOTTA CHEESE instead of sour cream and skip the provolone for a real Italian version of Baked Ziti. Mix an egg into a pound of ricotta to make it nice and creamy, and toss with the ziti. Layer sauce first (so you don't need to butter the pan), then ziti/cheese, mozzarella, sprinkle with parm and a little dried oregano or basil, then. Cook the ziti until not quite al dente.

Baked Ziti is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Baked Ziti is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:
  1. Make ready 2 lbs penne pasta
  2. Make ready 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
  3. Make ready 24 oz tomato sauce
  4. Prepare 4 1/2 cups ricotta cheese
  5. Take 4 cups mozzarella cheese (shredded)
  6. Prepare 1 cup parmesan cheese
  7. Take 2 eggs
  8. Make ready 4 tbsp parsley
  9. Get 1 tbsp salt
  10. Prepare 1 tsp black pepper
  11. Get 1 tsp oregano
  12. Get 1/4 cup halved pepperoni slices (optional)

When assembling the dish, be sure to cover the pasta with enough of the sauce so that the noodles don't dry out. Also, to prevent moisture from evaporating while cooking, cover the dish tightly with foil. 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, then you use mostaciolli noodles.

Instructions to make Baked Ziti:
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees
  2. Boil water. Add some salt (about 1 tbsp) to flavor the pasta as it cooks. Once it boils, add pasta and cook for 15 minutes. Once pasta is done cooking, mix in a bit of sauce to keep it from sticking.
  3. Heat a pan at medium heat, add the beef and some water (maybe 2 cups or so). Brown the chopped meat. This will take about 10 minutes - you’ll know it’s done when the juice is clear.
  4. Then drain it. Once the meat cools a bit, break it up into small pieces if it isn’t already.
  5. Get a large foil roast pan and coat the bottom with about 1/4 cup of sauce.
  6. In a large bowl, mix together the meat and all ingredients, except the cooked pasta. Leave a little bit of sauce to the side to drizzle over the top later.
  7. After the meat, cheeses, eggs, and seasonings are mixed well, add the pasta and mix well again.
  8. Put the ziti in the baking pan. Sprinkle some extra mozzarella and parmesan cheese (maybe 2 handfuls of each) over the top layer. Then drizzle the last of the sauce over top.
  9. Cover the pan with foil and cook in the oven for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Then, take off the foil and cook for another 20 minutes or so.

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, then you use mostaciolli noodles. Some people just use tomato/marinara sauce. That, of course, would never fly in this house. Our baked ziti recipe is a dish all cooks should have in their repertoire.

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