Baked Ziti
Baked Ziti

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Baked Ziti is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Baked Ziti is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook baked ziti using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:
  1. Take 1 lb dry ziti pasta
  2. Get 1 onion, chopped
  3. Prepare 1 lb italian sausage (or ground beef…I like ground sausage better)
  4. Prepare 2 tsp minced garlic
  5. Get 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. Make ready 1 1/2 cup sour cream
  9. Make ready 8 oz mozzarella cheese
  10. Make ready 1 grated parmesan cheese
  11. Take butter

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.

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, 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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