Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, baked ziti. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Baked Ziti is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Baked Ziti is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice 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 get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook baked ziti using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Baked Ziti:
- Take 2 lbs penne pasta
- Make ready 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
- Get 24 oz tomato sauce
- Prepare 4 1/2 cups ricotta cheese
- Make ready 4 cups mozzarella cheese (shredded)
- Get 1 cup parmesan cheese
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Make ready 4 tbsp parsley
- Take 1 tbsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp black pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp oregano
- Take 1/4 cup halved pepperoni slices (optional)
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:
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees
- 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.
- 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.
- Then drain it. Once the meat cools a bit, break it up into small pieces if it isn’t already.
- Get a large foil roast pan and coat the bottom with about 1/4 cup of sauce.
- 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.
- After the meat, cheeses, eggs, and seasonings are mixed well, add the pasta and mix well again.
- 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.
- 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.
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