Baked Ziti
Baked Ziti

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baked ziti. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Baked Ziti is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Baked Ziti is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have baked ziti using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:
  1. Prepare 1/2 lb ziti pasta
  2. Make ready 16 oz ricotta cheese ( I substitue cream cheese)
  3. Take 3 cup mozarella cheese
  4. Get 1 Spaghetti Sauce ( I used Emiril's u can tell difference between cheap n good sauce)
  5. Make ready 1/2 cup parmesan Cheese
  6. Prepare 1 parsley ( used just for color)
  7. Prepare 1 lb ground beef

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.

Steps to make Baked Ziti:
  1. Preheat oven 350
  2. Brown Ground Beef
  3. While Beef is browning add cream cheese
  4. After Gradually mix in spaghetti sauce
  5. When your cooking your sauce Mixture be sure to have your ziti pasta boiling
  6. once pasta & sauce r done layer sauce mixture, parmesan cheese & ziti.
  7. Repeat till done
  8. Once Layers R done sprinkle parmesan cheese & mozarella
  9. bake uncovered 20 minutes
  10. Once Done add parsley for color

Baked Ziti is the ultimate in Italian Casserole dishes and I'd feel like I was holding back if I didn't tell you that if you love this ziti I need you to try our Baked Million Dollar Spaghetti and Ultimate Meat Lasagna. They're basically all best friends in the cheesy meat pasta category. Baked ziti can become dry for several reasons. 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.

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