Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Quick Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, sharon's slow cooker baked ziti. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This easy Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is a perfect meal for those busy weeknights during the summer. With slow cooker pasta bakes like this, you get to enjoy a delicious, hearty meal with very little work. It might sound a little.cheesy.but it just doesn't get better than that. This Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is made completely in the crockpot — even the pasta!

Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have sharon's slow cooker baked ziti using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:

1. Get Half a large onion (chopped)
2. Take 2 Lbs ground beef
3. Take (2) 24oz jars of pasta sauce
4. Make ready 32 oz ricotta cheese
5. Prepare 1 egg (beaten)
6. Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
7. Get 1 teaspoon pepper
8. Take 2 Lbs ziti pasta (uncooked)
9. Take 6 cups colby monterey jack cheese
10. Make ready Non stick cooking spray

Slow Cooker Baked Ziti is an easy crock pot pasta dinner that's perfect for weeknight meals. The pasta cooks right in the sauce! I've made countless slow cooker dinners and breakfasts and even cooked rolls and cinnamon rolls in them. Seriously, there isn't much that a slow cooker can't do!

Steps to make Sharon's Slow Cooker Baked Ziti:

1. Brown ground beef and onion in large skillet; Drain fat.
2. Return ground beef to skillet and mix both jars of pasta sauce with ground beef; Remove from heat.
3. In a bowl mix ricotta cheese, egg, salt, and pepper
4. Turn the slower cooker to high
5. Spray slower cooker with non stick spray
6. Spoon the sauce into the bottom of the slower cooker; Enough to evenly coat the bottom
7. Spoon the ricotta cheese mixture on top of the sauce evenly coated
8. Pour uncooked ziti noodles on top of ricotta cheese evenly coated
9. Sprinkle colby cheese on top of pasta evenly coated
10. Repeat steps 6-9 until you reach the top of slow cooker; making sure the final layer is a generous amount of colby cheese
11. Put the top on slow cooker; cook for 4 hours or until pasta is tender. Avoid opening the slow cooker while cooking.
12. Enjoy!!

I've made countless slow cooker dinners and breakfasts and even cooked rolls and cinnamon rolls in them. Seriously, there isn't much that a slow cooker can't do! Yes, you really can make baked ziti (well, "baked" ziti) in your slow cooker. And the result isn't just good — it's amazing. What it lacks in the crispy-edges department it gains in the ooey-gooey comfort-food department: tender noodles coated in marinara and mixed with a double dose of melty cheese.

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