Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baked Ziti is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Baked Ziti is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Baked Ziti - classic Italian American comfort food of pasta baked with sausage, tomato sauce and all kinds of gooey, yummy cheeses. Baked Ziti is so much more than just a Bolognese pasta bake…. It's a big, juicy baked pasta that's loaded with flavour from a healthy dose of seasonings and topped with a generous amount of cheese.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook baked ziti using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:
- Make ready 1 lb dry ziti pasta
- Get 1 onion, chopped
- Get 1 lb italian sausage (or ground beef…I like ground sausage better)
- Make ready 2 tsp minced garlic
- Make ready 2 tsp italian seasoning
- Get 2 jars of spaghetti sauce (26 oz each)
- Get 6 oz provolone cheese (9-12 round slices)
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup sour cream
- Get 8 oz mozzarella cheese
- Prepare 1 grated parmesan cheese
- Prepare butter
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. Baked Ziti Is Lasagna's Chill, Laid-Back Cousin. 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. This Baked Ziti is a classic Italian-American comfort food!
Instructions to make Baked Ziti:
- Cook pasta according to package.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Optional: Serve with garlic knots (our fav) or garlic toast. Enjoy!
It's easy to make, perfect for a weeknight meal or a special occasion. Tender pieces of ziti noodles, delicious meat sauce. Ultimate Italian Baked Ziti creamy casserole with a homemade meat sauce, super EASY to 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. 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.
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