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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Baked ziti:
- Get 1 box ziti
- Take 1 lb soft mozzarella cheese (unshreaded)
- Make ready 1 can crushed tomatoes (28 Oz)
- Make ready 5 small mushrooms (optional)
- Prepare 2 cup shredded cheeses( mozzarella or Parmesan)
- Take 3 clove garlic
- Make ready 1 cup marinara sauce
- Get 1 lb ground meat (cooked)
- Make ready 1/2 medium onion
- Prepare 1 tsp oregano
- Make ready 1 tsp basil
- Get 8 oz ricotta
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 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.
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.
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. This vegetable packed vegetarian Baked Ziti is the ultimate weeknight dinner. Baked ziti is like lasagna's laid back sister. No fussing with perfectly fitting the noodles or cooking the bechamel.
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